In this paper the notion of a partial-order plan is extended to task-hierarchies. We introduce the concept of a partial-order taskhierarchy that decomposes a problem using multi-ta...
We present a framework for coordinating autonomous planning agents. Together, these agents have to achieve a set of interdependent (elementary) tasks. Each of the agents receives a...
Variants of the decentralized MDP model focus on problems exhibiting some special structure that makes them easier to solve in practice. Our work is concerned with two main issues...
We propose a new method for solving structured CSPs which generalizes and improves the Cyclic-Clustering approach [4]. First, the cutset and the tree-decomposition of the constrai...
We combine mixed integer linear programming (MILP) and constraint programming (CP) to minimize tardiness in planning and scheduling. Tasks are allocated to facilities using MILP an...