— Our goal in this work is to make high level decisions for mobile robots. In particular, given a queue of prioritized object delivery tasks, we wish to find a sequence of actio...
Planning can often be simplified by decomposing the task into smaller tasks arranged hierarchically. Charlin et al. [4] recently showed that the hierarchy discovery problem can be...
A number of diseases, such as arthritis and cardiovascular disorders impacting the lives of many people have strong inflammatory components. To elucidate the antiinflammatory mecha...
Jing Yu, Gabriel Helmlinger, Muriel Saulnier, Anna...
In this paper, we describe our experience with the design and implementation of an embodied conversational agent (ECA) that converses with users in order to change their dietary b...
Fiorella de Rosis, Nicole Novielli, Valeria Carofi...
We present Variable Influence Structure Analysis, or VISA, an algorithm that performs hierarchical decomposition of factored Markov decision processes. VISA uses a dynamic Bayesia...