| 07:45-16:15 |
Registration |
| 08:20-08:35 |
| 08:35-09:40 |
Invited Talk by Peter Wurman
How to Coordinate a Thousand Robots
(Room: Ballroom)
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| 09:40-09:45 |
Break |
| Room |
Ballroom |
Harbor's Edge |
| 09:45-10:45 |
Session AM 1a: Search
(chair: Jordan Thayer)
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Daniel Harabor and Alban Grastien
Improving Jump Point Search
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Mike Phillips, Sven Koenig and Maxim Likhachev
Parallel A* for Planning with Time-consuming State Expansions
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Vidal Alcázar, Susana Fernandez and Daniel Borrajo
Analyzing the Impact of Partial States on Duplicate Detection and Collision of Frontiers.
(short paper)
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Session AM 1b: Markov Decision Processes
(chair: Scott Sanner)
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Aijun Bai, Feng Wu, Zongzhang Zhang and Xiaoping Chen
Thompson Sampling based Monte-Carlo Planning in POMDPs
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Truong-Huy Nguyen, Tomi Silander, Wee-Sun Lee and Tze-Yun Leong
Bootstrapping Simulation-based Algorithms with a Suboptimal Policy
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Todd Hester and Peter Stone
TEXPLORE: Real-Time Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Robots
(Journal Track)
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| 10:45-11:05 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:05-12:15 |
Session AM 2a: Planning Heuristics and Search
(chair: Andrew Coles)
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Ron Alford, Vikas Shivashankar, Ugur Kuter and Dana Nau
On the Feasibility of Planning Graph Style Heuristics for HTN Planning
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Michael Barley, Santiago Franco and Patricia Riddle
Overcoming the Utility Problem in Heuristic Generation: Why Time Matters
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Stefan Edelkamp, Peter Kissmann and Martha Rohte
Symbolic and Explicit Search Hybrid through Perfect Hash Functions – A Case Study in Connect Four
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Session AM 2b: Markov Decision Processes
(chair: Alan Fern)
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Zohar Feldman and Carmel Domshlak
On MABs and Separation of Concerns in Monte-Carlo Planning for MDPs
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Ping Hou, William Yeoh and Pradeep Varakantham
Revisiting Risk-Sensitive MDPs: New Algorithms and Results
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Diederik Roijers, Joris Scharpff, Matthijs Spaan, Frans Oliehoek, Mathijs De Weerdt and Shimon Whiteson
Bounded Approximations for Linear Multi-Objective Planning under Uncertainty
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| 12:15-14:00 |
Lunch Break
(and system demo set-up) |
| 14:00-14:45 |
Session PM 1a: Planning Heuristics
(chair: Joerg Hoffman)
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Blai Bonet and Menkes van den Briel
Flow-based Heuristics for Optimal Planning: Landmarks and Merges
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Jendrik Seipp and Malte Helmert
Diverse and Additive Cartesian Abstraction Heuristics
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Session PM 1b: Planning Under Uncertainty
(chair: Subbarao Kambhampati)
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Luis Pineda and Shlomo Zilberstein
Planning under Uncertainty Using Reduced Models: Revisiting Determinization
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Guy Shani, Erez Karpas, Ronen Brafman and Shlomi Maliah
Partially Observable Online Contingent Planning Using Landmark Heuristics
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| 14:45-14:50 |
Break |
| 14:50-16:05 |
Session PM 2a: Planning Heuristics
(chair: Carmel Domshlak)
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Bram Ridder, Maria Fox and Derek Long
Heuristic Evaluation based on Lifted Relaxed Planning Graphs
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Richard Valenzano, Nathan Sturtevant, Jonathan Schaeffer and Fan Xie
A Comparison of Knowledge-Based GBFS Enhancements and Knowledge-Free Exploration
(short paper)
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Florian Pommerening, Gabriele Röger, Malte Helmert and Blai Bonet
LP-based Heuristics for Cost-optimal Planning
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Benjamin Cohen, Sachin Chitta, and Maxim Likhachev
Single and Dual-Arm Motion Planning with Heuristic Search
(Journal Track)
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Session PM 2b: Planning Under Uncertainty
(chair: Daniel Bryce)
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Miquel Ramírez and Sebastian Sardina
Directed Fixed-Point Regression-based Planning for Non-Deterministic Domains
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Tuan Nguyen and Subbarao Kambhampati
An Heuristic Approach to Planning with Incomplete STRIPS Action Models
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A. Kuestenmacher, N. Akhtar, P. Plöger and G. Lakemeyer
Towards Robust Task Execution for Domestic Service Robots
(Journal Track)
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Christian Muise, Sheila Mcilraith and Vaishak Belle
Non-Deterministic Planning With Conditional Effects
(short paper)
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| 16:05-16:15 |
Break - Poster Preparation |
| Room |
Ballroom |
Gardner & Lear (two adjacent rooms) |
| 16:15-17:30 |
Posters Session 1: Workshop Posters
SPARK, MPPU, DMAP, MOCHAP, KEPS, COPLAS, HSDIP
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System Demos
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| 17:30-18:45 |
Posters Session 2: Main Conference & PlanRob Workshop
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System Demos
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| 08:00-16:15 |
Registration |
| 08:30-08:35 |
| 08:35-09:40 |
Invited Talk by Michael Littman
Planning In The Context Of Model-based Reinforcement Learning
(Room: Ballroom)
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| 09:40-09:45 |
Break |
| Room |
Ballroom |
Harbor's Edge |
| 09:45-10:45 |
Session AM 1a: Classical Planning
(chair: Joerg Hoffman)
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Carmel Domshlak and Anton Nazarenko
The Complexity of Optimal Monotonic Planning: The Bad, The Good, and The Causal Graph
(Journal Track)
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Xing Tan and Michael Gruninger
The Complexity of Partial-Order Plan Viability Problems
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Martin Wehrle and Malte Helmert
Efficient Stubborn Sets: Generalized Algorithms and Selection Strategies
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Session AM 1b: Temporal Planning
(chair: Amanda Coles)
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Cedric Pralet and Gerard Verfaillie
Time-dependent Simple Temporal Networks: Properties and Algorithms
(Journal Track)
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Pedro Santana and Brian Williams
Chance-Constrained Consistency for Probabilistic Temporal Plan Networks
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Toby O. Davies, Adrian R. Pearce, Peter J. Stuckey and Harald Søndergaard
Fragment-Based Planning Using Column Generation
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| 10:45-11:05 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:05-12:15 |
Session AM 2a: Robotics and Applications
(chair: Roman Bartak)
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Nir Lipovetzky, Christina Burt, Adrian Pearce and Peter Stuckey
Planning for Mining Operations with Time and Resource Constraints
(Application Track)
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Christopher Expósito Izquierdo, Belen Melian and Marcos Moreno
Optimization Model and Heuristic Approach for Blocks Retrieval Processes in Warehouses
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Roberto Boselli, Mirko Cesarini, Fabio Mercorio and Mario Mezzanzanica
Planning meets Data Cleansing
(Application Track - short paper)
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Iman Awaad, Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar and Joachim Hertzberg
Finding Ways to Get the Job Done: An Affordance-based Approach
(Robotics Track - short paper)
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Session AM 2b: Scheduling
(chair: Chris Beck)
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Frits de Nijs and Tomas Klos
A Novel Priority Rule Heuristic: Learning from Justification
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Akshat Kumar, Sudhanshu Singh, Pranav Gupta and Gyana Parija
Near-Optimal Nonmyopic Contact Center Planning Using Dual Decomposition
(Application Track)
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Cédric Pralet, Gérard Verfaillie, Adrien Maillard, Emmanuel Hébrard, Nicolas Jozefowiez, Marie-Josée Huguet, Thierry Desmousceaux, Pierre Blanc-Paques and Jean Jaubert.
Satellite Data Download Management with Uncertainty about the Generated Volumes
(Application Track)
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| 12:15-13:50 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:50-14:55 |
Session PM 1a: Planning with Costs and Resources
(chair: Minh Do)
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Franc Ivankovic, Patrik Haslum, Sylvie Thiebaux, Vikas Shivashankar and Dana Nau
Optimal Planning with Global Numerical State Constraints
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Peter Ondruska and Ingmar Posner
The Route Not Taken: Driver-Centric Estimation of Electric Vehicle Range
(Application Track)
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Enrico Scala
Plan Repair for resource constrained tasks via numeric macro actions
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Session PM 1b: Temporal Planning
(chair: J. Benton)
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Amanda Coles and Andrew Coles
Reasoning with Events and Linear Processes in Forward Chaining Planning
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Eliseo Marzal, Laura Sebastia and Eva Onaindia
On the use of temporal landmarks for planning with deadlines
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Simon Parkinson, Peter Gregory, Andrew Longstaff and Andrew Crampton
Automated Planning for Multi-Objective Machine Tool Calibration: Optimising Makespan and Measurement Uncertainty
(Application Track)
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| 14:55-15:00 |
Break |
| 15:00-16:30 |
Results IPC
(Room: Ballroom)
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| 16:30-16:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:45-18:45 |
Community Meeting
(includes Best Dissertation Talk)
(Room: Ballroom)
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| 19:00 |
Banquet
(Location: Seacoast Science Center)
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| 08:00-12:15 |
Registration |
| 08:30-08:35 |
| 08:35-09:40 |
Invited Talk by Malik Ghallab
Coupling Problems in Planning & Acting
(Room: Ballroom)
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| 09:40-09:45 |
Break |
| Room |
Ballroom |
Harbor's Edge |
| 09:45-10:45 |
Session AM 1a: Assembly and Manufacturing
(chair: David Smith)
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Pascal Bercher, Susanne Biundo, Thomas Geier, Thilo Hoernle, Florian Nothdurft, Felix Richter and Bernd Schattenberg
Plan, Repair, Execute, Explain - How Planning Helps to Assemble your Home Theater
(Application Track)
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Masataro Asai and Alex Fukunaga
Fully Automated Cyclic Planning for Large-Scale Manufacturing Domains
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Session AM 1b: Transformation and Composition
(chair: Dan Bryce)
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Carlos Areces, Facundo Bustos, Martin Dominguez, and Joerg Hoffmann
Optimizing Planning Domains by Action Schema Splitting
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Lukas Chrpa, Mauro Vallati and Thomas Leo McCluskey
MUM: A Technique for Maximising the Utility of Macro-operators by Constrained Generation and Use
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Giuseppe De Giacomo, Fabio Patrizi, and Sebastian Sardina
Building Virtual Behaviors from Partially Controllable Available Behaviors in Nondeterministic Environments
(Journal Track)
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| 10:45-11:05 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:05-12:15 |
Session AM 2a: Robotics
(chair: Malik Ghallab)
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T. K. Satish Kumar, Sangmook Jung and Sven Koenig
A Tree-Based Algorithm for Construction Robots
(Robotics Track)
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Steven Levine and Brian Williams
Concurrent Plan Recognition and Execution for Human-Robot Teams
(Robotics Track)
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Fangkai Yang, Piyush Khandelwal, Matteo Leonetti, Vladimir Lifschitz and Peter Stone
Planning in Action Language BC while Learning Action Costs for Mobile Robots
(Robotics Track)
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Session AM 2b: Multi-Agent Planning
(chair: Shlomo Zilberstein)
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Michal Štolba and Antonín Komenda
Relaxation Heuristics for Multiagent Planning
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Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Bo An, Milind Tambe and Satinder Singh
Computing Solutions in Infinite-Horizon Discounted Adversarial Patrolling Games
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Christopher Wilt and Adi Botea
Spatially Distributed Multiagent Path Planning
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| 12:15-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:00-14:45 |
Session PM 1a: Controllability
(chair: Steve Smith)
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Peng Yu, Cheng Fang and Brian Williams
Resolving Uncontrollable Conditional Temporal Problems using Continuous Relaxations
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Mikael Nilsson, Jonas Kvarnström and Patrick Doherty
EfficientIDC: A Faster Incremental Dynamic Controllability Algorithm
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Session PM 1b: Robotics
(chair: Michael Otte)
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J. Capitan, M. Spaan, L. Merino, and A. Ollero
Decentralized Multi-Robot Cooperation with Auctioned POMDPs
(Journal Track)
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Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Tomas Lozano-Perez
Integrated Task and Motion Planning in Belief Space
(Journal Track)
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Dirk Ruiken, Michael W. Lanighan and Roderic A. Grupen
Path planning for dexterous mobility
(Robotics Track - short paper)
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| 14:45-14:50 |
Break |
| 14:50-15:45 |
Session PM 2a: Goal and Plan Recognition
(chair: Daniel Borrajo)
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Sarah Keren, Erez Karpas and Avigdor Gal
Goal Recognition Design
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Richard Freedman, Hee-Tae Jung and Shlomo Zilberstein
Plan and Activity Recognition from a Topic Modeling Perspective
(short paper)
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Sam Wiseman and Stuart Shieber
Discriminatively Reranking Abductive Proofs for Plan Recognition
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Session PM 2b: Motion and Path Planning
(chair: Jordan Thayer)
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Carlos Hernández Ulloa, Jorge Baier and Roberto Asín
Making A* Run Faster than D*-Lite in Path-Planning in Partially Known Terrain
(Robotics Track - short paper)
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Marcello Cirillo, Federico Pecora, Henrik Andreasson, Tansel Uras, and Sven Koenig
Integrated Motion Planning and Coordination for Industrial Vehicles
(Robotics Track)
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Michael W. Otte and Nikolaus Correll
C-FOREST: Parallel Shortest-Path Planning with Super Linear Speedup
(Journal Track)
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| 15:45-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:00-17:07 |
Session PM 3a: Classical Planning
(chair: Erez Karpas)
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Manuel Heusner, Martin Wehrle, Florian Pommerening and Malte Helmert
Under-Approximation Refinement for Classical Planning
(short paper)
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Chris Fawcett, Mauro Vallati, Frank Hutter, Jörg Hoffmann, Holger H. Hoos and Kevin Leyton-Brown
Improved Features for Runtime Prediction of Domain-Independent Planners
(short paper)
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Martin Suda
Property Directed Reachability for Automated Planning
(Journal Track)
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Caroline Ponzoni Carvalho Chanel, Charles Lesire and Florent Teichteil-Königsbuch
A Robotic Execution Framework for Online Probabilistic (Re)Planning
(Robotics Track)
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Session PM 3b: Plan Diversity
(chair: Minh Do)
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Daniel Bryce
Landmark-Based Plan Distance Measures for Diverse Planning
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Mark Roberts, Adele Howe and Indrajit Ray
Evaluating Diversity for Classical Planning
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| 17:07-17:12 |
