Security at major locations of economic or political importance is a key concern around the world, particularly given the threat of terrorism. Limited security resources prevent f...
Concurrent action execution is important for plan-length minimization. However, action specifications are often limited to avoid conflicts arising from precondition/effect inter...
Recent work on online auctions for digital goods has explored the role of optimal stopping theory — particularly secretary problems — in the design of approximately optimal on...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Tu...
In this paper, we consider the problem of assisting a busy user in managing her workload of pending tasks. We assume that our user is typically oversubscribed, and is invariably j...
The current evaluation functions for heuristic planning are expensive to compute. In numerous domains these functions give good guidance on the solution, so it worths the computat...