Barbara Hayes-Roth
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Barbara (Bella) Hayes-Roth is an American computer scientist and psychologist whose research in artificial intelligence includes work on knowledge acquisition,[A] automated planning and scheduling,[B] spatial cognition,[C] the blackboard system,[D] real-time computing,[E] adaptation,[F] and intelligent behavior in interactive storytelling.[G] She was a senior research scientist and lecturer in computer science at Stanford University 1982–2002.[1] She holds two patents on interactive characters and founded Extempo Systems, Inc.[2]
Hayes-Roth majored in psychology at Boston University, graduating magna cum laude in 1971. She went to the University of Michigan for graduate study in psychology, earning a master's degree in 1973 and completing her Ph.D. in 1974.[1] Her dissertation, Interactions in the Acquisition and Utilization of Structured Knowledge, was supervised by Robert Bjork.[3]
She became a researcher at Bell Laboratories from 1974 to 1976, and at the RAND Corporation from 1976 to 1982, also holding a position as consulting assistant professor in psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She became a senior research scientist and lecturer at Stanford in 1982.[1]
Selected publications
| A. | Thorndyke, Perry W.; Hayes-Roth, Barbara (January 1979), "The use of schemata in the acquisition and transfer of knowledge", Cognitive Psychology, 11 (1): 82–106, doi:10.1016/0010-0285(79)90005-7, S2CID 54373367 |
| B. | Hayes-Roth, Barbara; Hayes-Roth, Frederick (October 1979), "A cognitive model of planning", Cognitive Science, 3 (4): 275–310, doi:10.1016/s0364-0213(79)80010-5 (inactive 1 February 2026) {{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of February 2026 (link) |
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| D. | Hayes-Roth, Barbara (July 1985), "A blackboard architecture for control", Artificial Intelligence, 26 (3): 251–321, doi:10.1016/0004-3702(85)90063-3 |
| E. | Hayes-Roth, Barbara (May 1990), "Architectural foundations for real-time performance in intelligent agents", The Journal of Real Time Systems, 2 (1–2), Kluwer Academic Publishers: 99–125, Bibcode:1990RTSys...2...99H, doi:10.1007/bf01840468, S2CID 15768756 |
| F. | Hayes-Roth, Barbara (January 1995), "An architecture for adaptive intelligent systems", Artificial Intelligence, 72 (1–2): 329–365, doi:10.1016/0004-3702(94)00004-k, hdl:2060/19970037819 |
| G. | Hayes-Roth, Barbara; van Gent, Robert; Huber, Daniel (March 1997), "Acting in character", in Trappl, Robert; Petta, Paolo (eds.), Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors: Towards Autonomous Personality Agents, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1195, Springer, pp. 92–112, doi:10.1007/bfb0030573, ISBN 978-3-540-62735-7, S2CID 16942371 |
