Undergraduate Studies
Smith College 1973-1977. B.A. awarded, Magna Cum
Laude, with Honors 1977
AGT Limited (now Telus Communications), Edmonton, Alberta,
1993-1994
Consultant on AI learning methods vs.
statistical analysis methods for telecommunication applications.
AGT Limited (now Telus Communications), Edmonton, Alberta,
1989 -1990
Consultant on expert systems design and implementation;
high level specification and project planning documents; scientific consultation
and program evaluation for a $1 million technology transfer program
on applied AI.
Synerlogic, Inc., Calgary, Alberta, 1986
Knowledge engineering and consulting for design and implementation
of a system to provide instructional design advice for developing
computer-based training material.
Interact Research & Development, (now Acquired
Intelligence) Victoria, British Columbia 1985
Contract development for applied AI systems.
Faculty of Science
Associate Dean (Research); Department of Computing Science Chair Review and Selection,( 2002-2003); Faculty Evaluation Committee (1998-2000); Faculty
of Science Representative on Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine Council
(1998-2000); Appeals Committee on Academic Standing (1988-89, 1991-93);
Faculty of Science Representative on Faculty of Business Council (1994-1996).
Department of Computing Science
Acting Chair (Jan 2004-July 2004); Associate Chair (Undergraduate) (2000- );Associate Chair
(Graduate) and Chair of Graduate Admissions Committee (1999-2000);
Curriculum Committee (1998-1999); Curriculum Liaison with
Grant MacEwan Community College (1999); Faculty Recruiting Committee, (1996-1997);
Director of Undergraduate Programs (1991-1994.); Executive Committee (1986-1987;
1988-89; 1991-1994); Graduate Admissions Committee (1986-1988); Faculty
Selection Committee (1985-1986); Task Force on Teaching Evaluation and
Teaching Assistants (1985-87, 1989).
Invited newspaper, radio, and TV interviews: Edmonton Journal "Science and Health" feature article on METEOR expert system (June, 1986); TV program for ACCESS TV's "Discovery Digest," (Fall, 1986); Radio spots for Edmonton Radio CKUA Science Digest Series (1986).
"About Artificial Intelligence." Invited session given at "Confronting Technophobia" conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Science in Canada and the University of Alberta Committee on Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science, and Technology. University of Alberta, May, 1986.
Elio, R. & Petrinjak, A. (2005). Normative communication models for agent error messages. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 11, 273-305. pdf-file
Brown, S., Grundy, I., Clements, P., Elio, R., Balazs, S., & Cameron, R. (2004). Intertextual Encoding in the Writing of Women's Literary History. Computers and the Humanities 38, 191-206.
Bac, M. & Elio, R. (2004). Schema-based alethic realism: Agency, the environment, and truthmaking. Minds and Machines, 14, 173-196 . pdf-file
Elio, R. (2002). Belief-desire-intention agency in a general cognitive architecture. Cognitive Science Quarterly, 2, 321-340.
Elio, R., Haddadi, A., & Singh, A. (2000). Task models, intentions, and agent communication. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1886: Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Conference on AI (PRICAI-2000), 394-403. Springer Verlag: Berlin pdf-file
Elio, R. , Haddadi, A., & Singh, A. (2000) Task models for agent conversation policies. Proceedings of Autonomous Agents-2000, 229-230. Pdf-file.
Upal, M.A. & Elio, R (2000). Learning rewrite rules versus search control rules to improve plan quality. Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 240-253. June, 2000. Pdf-file
Upal, M. A. & Elio, R. (1999). Learning rationales to improve plan quality for partial order planners. In A. Kumar & I. Russell (Eds.) Proceedings of the Twelfth International FLAIRS Conference, pp. 371-377 Orlando, Florida. AAAI Press: Menlo Park, CA. Pdf-file
Elio, R. & Haddadi, A (1999). Abstract tasks and conversation policies. In F. Dignum & M. Greaves (Eds.) Issues in Agent Communication, 301-314. Springer Verlag, Berlin pdf-file
Langley, P. , Thompson C., Elio, R., & Haddadi, A. (1999). An adaptive conversational interface for destination advice. In M. Klusch, O. Shehory, and G. Weiss (Eds.) Cooperative Informational Agents III, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 347-364. Pdf-file
Pelletier, F. J. & Elio, R (1999). A study of belief revision theories. In J. Wiles & T. Dartnell (Eds). Perspectives on Cognitive Science II. Ablex Publishing, New Jersey, pp.131-148.
Elio, R. & Haddadi, A. (1999). On abstract tasks and conversation policies. In M. Greaves & J. Bradshaw (Eds.) Specifying and Implementing Conversation Policies for Agents, pp. 89-98. Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents. Seattle, Washington. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
Upal, M. A. & Elio, R. (1998). Learning to improve the quality of plans produced by partial-order planners. In A. Valente (Ed.) Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition for Planning Workshop Papers, (pp. 94-113). Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems. AAAI Technical Report. Menlo Park, CA:AAAI Press. Pdf-file
Elio, R. (1998). How to disbelieve p-> q: Resolving contradictions. In Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 315-320. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: New Jersey. Pdf-file
Elio, R. & Pelletier, F. J. (1997). Belief change as propositional update. Cognitive Science, 4, 419-460.
Pelletier, F.J. & Elio, R. (1997). What should default reasoning be, by default? Computational Intelligence, 13, 165-187. Pdf-file
Elio, R. (1997). Generating alternative process models through simulation. In B. Endres-Niggemeyer & C. Inchaurralde (Eds.) The cognitive level. Duisburg, Netherlands: Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg.
Elio, R. (1997). Broken promises and disabled causes: On the epistemic entrenchment of conditionals in belief revision. Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence(IJCAI-97), p. 34. Nagoya, Japan.
Elio, R. (1997). Separating computer skills from computer science: The evolution of computing courses at the University of Alberta. In G. K. Tsiknis (Ed.) Proceedings of the Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education, pp. 35-48. Nanaimo, BC: British Columbia Computers in Education.
Elio, R. (1997). What to believe when inferences are contradicted: The impact of knowledge type and inference rule. In M. G. Shafto & P. Langley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 211-216. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.pdf-file
Elio, R. & Pelletier, F.J. (1996). On reasoning with default rules and exceptions. In G. W. Cottrell (Ed.) Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 131-136. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pdf-file
Elio, R. & Lin, K. (1994). Simulation models of the influence of learning mode and training variance on category learning. Cognitive Science, 18, 185-220.
Elio, R. & Pelletier, F. J. (1994). On relevance in nonmonotonic reasoning: Some empirical studies. In R. Greiner & D. Subramanian (Eds.), Relevance: American Association for Artificial Intelligence 1994 Fall Symposium Series, New Orleans, pp. 64-67. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
Elio, R. & Pelletier, F. J. (1994). The effect of syntactic form on simple belief revisions and updates. In A. Ram & K. Eiselt (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 260-266. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pdf-file
Elio, R. & Watanabe, L. (1993). Simulating interactive effects of domain knowledge and category structure with a constructive induction system. In Sloman, A., Hogg, P., Humphries, G., Ramsey, A., & Partridge, P. (Eds.) Prospects of Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior, pp. 250-260. Birmingham, UK: IOS Press.
Elio, R. & Pelletier, F.J. (1993). Human benchmarks on AI's benchmark problems. Proceedings of the 1993 Annual Cognitive Science Conference. pp. 406-411. Boulder, CO: Morgan Kaufmann.
Scharf, P.B., Sanger, V., & Elio, R. (1992). Corporate perspectives on technology transfer: An expert systems apprenticeship program. IEEE Expert, 7, 6-13.
Elio, R. & Watanabe, L. (1991). An incremental deductive strategy for controlling constructive induction in learning from examples. Machine Learning, 7, 7-44.
Elio, R. & Scharf, P.B. (1990). Modeling novice-to-expert shifts in problem solving strategy and knowledge organization, Cognitive Science, 14, 579-640.
Elio, R. deHaan, J. & Strong, G. (1987). METEOR: An intelligent system for storm forecasting. Invited paper for a special issue on artificial intelligence in Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 4, 19-28.
Watanabe, L. & Elio, R. (1987). Guiding constructive induction in learning by examples. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 293-296, Milan, Italy.
Elio, R. & deHaan, J. (1986). Representing and integrating qualitative and quantitative knowledge in a knowledge-based storm forecasting system. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 25, 523-547.
Elio, R. deHaan, J., & Strong, G. (1986). Combining statistical models and artificial intelligence for forecasting. Proceedings of the Workshop on Operational Meteorology, sponsored by the Atmospheric Environment Service and the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, Winnipeg.
Elio, R. (1986). Representation of similar well-learned cognitive procedures. Cognitive Science, 10, 41-73.
Elio, R. & deHaan, J. (1985). Knowledge representation for a severe storm forecasting system. Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICJAI-85), pp. 401-409.
Elio, R. & Anderson, J.R. (1984). The effects of information order and learning mode on schema abstraction. Memory & Cognition, 12, 20-30.
Elio, R. & Healy, A.F. (1982). Deep structure syntactic relations: To-be-retrieved information and retrieval cues in prompted sentence recall. Language and Speech, 7, 397-417.
Elio, R. & Anderson, J.R. (1981). The effects of category generalizations and instance similarity on schema abstraction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 7, 397-417.
Elio, R. E. & Reutener, D.B. (1978). Color context as a factor in encoding and as an organizational device for retrieval. Journal of General Psychology, 99, 223-232.
Elio, R. (1994). Editor, Proceedings of the National Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Banff, Alberta. 320 pp.
Elio, R. (1987). AI at the University of Alberta. Canadian Artificial Intelligence Magazine, April, 1987 pp. 27-29.
Elio, R. (1990). Expert Systems Apprenticeship Program: Evaluation Report. AGT (Telus) Communications Technical Report TR-085-203-90-001, Edmonton, Alberta. 73 manuscript pages. (This work served as the basis for the IEEE Expert article cited above).
How to disbelieve p->q: Resolving contradictions. Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Wisconsin, Madison, 1998.
What to believe when inferences are contradicted:The impact of knowledge type and inference rule. Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stanford University, 1997.
On reasoning with default rules and exceptions. Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, University of California at San Diego, 1996.
Studies of belief revision. Third Australasian Conference on Cognitive Science, Queensland University, Brisbane: April, 1995.
Methodological issues in cognitive simulation. Fourth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, San Sebastián, Spain. 1995.
Human benchmarks on AI's benchmark problems. Sixteenth Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1993. University of Boulder, Colorado.
Relevance in Default Reasoning. Workshop on Relevance in Nonmonotonic Reasoning. IRIS. 1992 Kananaskis, Canada. (presented by F. J. Pelletier).
Psychological investigations into the nonmonotonic benchmarks. Seminar on Semantic Formalisms, 1993. Dagstuhl, Germany, sponsored by DFG and University of Saarbrueken (presented by F. J. Pelletier).
Simulating interactive effects of domain knowledge and category structure with a constructive induction system. Conference of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior. Birmingham, UK., 1992
* Intelligent Computer-Assisted Instruction Invited Tutorial Workshop for International Conference on Computer-Assisted Learning in Post-Secondary Education, Calgary. Sponsored by the University of Calgary and the Institute for Computer-Assisted Learning, University of Calgary, Alberta, 1985.
* About Artificial Intelligence. Invited session given at "Confronting Technophobia" conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Science in Canada and the University of Alberta Committee on Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science, and Technology. University of Alberta, May, 1986.
* The METEOR system for severe storm forecasting. Invited presentation to the Artificial Intelligence Research in Environmental Conference, sponsored by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, Colorado, May 1986.
Knowledge representation for a severe storm forecasting system. Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Los Angeles, CA: 1985.
* Invited discussant and coordinator for one day video conference on artificial intelligence, IEEE Northern Alberta Chapter, October, 1986.