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AIPS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
A Framework for Planning in Continuous-time Stochastic Domains
We propose a framework for policy generation in continuoustime stochastic domains with concurrent actions and events of uncertain duration. We make no assumptions regarding the co...
Håkan L. S. Younes, David J. Musliner, Reid ...
AIPS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Planning for Marketing Campaigns
In business marketing, corporations and institutions are interested in executing a sequence of marketing actions to affect a group of customers. For example, a financial instituti...
Qiang Yang, Hong Cheng
AIPS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Learning Rules for Adaptive Planning
This paper presents a novel idea, which combines Planning, Machine Learning and Knowledge-Based techniques. It is concerned with the development of an adaptive planning system tha...
Dimitris Vrakas, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Nick Bassili...
AIPS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Quality and Utility - Towards a Generalization of Deadline and Anytime Scheduling
Scheduling algorithms for real-time systems can be characterized in various ways, one of the most important ones of which is the underlying task model. Many concepts of real-time ...
Thomas Schwarzfischer
AIPS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Expressive Equivalence of Formalisms for Planning with Sensing
There have been several proposals for expressing planning problems with different forms of uncertainty, including nondeterminism and partial observability. In this paper we invest...
Jussi Rintanen
AIPS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Symmetry Reduction for SAT Representations of Transition Systems
Symmetries are inherent in systems that consist of several interchangeable objects or components. When reasoning about such systems, big computational savings can be obtained if t...
Jussi Rintanen
AIPS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Optimal Rectangle Packing: Initial Results
Given a set of rectangles with fixed orientations, we want to find an enclosing rectangle of minimum area that contains them all with no overlap. Many simple scheduling tasks ca...
Richard E. Korf
AIPS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Decision-Theoretic Group Elevator Scheduling
We present an efficient algorithm for exact calculation and minimization of expected waiting times of all passengers using a bank of elevators. The dynamics of the system are rep...
Daniel Nikovski, Matthew Brand
AIPS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
A Mixed-initiative Framework for Robust Plan Sketching
Sketching provides a natural and compact means for a user to outline a plan for a high-level objective. Previous work on plan sketching required that sketches be valid, meaning th...
Karen L. Myers, Peter Jarvis, Mabry Tyson, Michael...
AIPS
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Localizing Planning with Functional Process Models
In this paper we describe a compromise between generative planning and special-purpose software. Hierarchical functional models are used by an intelligent system to represent its ...
J. William Murdock, Ashok K. Goel