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AIPS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Exploiting the Power of Local Search in a Branch and Bound Algorithm for Job Shop Scheduling
This paper presents three techniques for using an iterated local search algorithm to improve the performance of a state-of-the-art branch and bound algorithm for job shop scheduli...
Matthew J. Streeter, Stephen F. Smith
AIPS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Solving Factored MDPs with Exponential-Family Transition Models
Markov decision processes (MDPs) with discrete and continuous state and action components can be solved efficiently by hybrid approximate linear programming (HALP). The main idea ...
Branislav Kveton, Milos Hauskrecht
AIPS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Looking for Shortcuts: Infeasible Search Analysis for Oversubscribed Scheduling Problems
Searches that include both feasible and infeasible solutions have proved to be efficient algorithms for solving some scheduling problems. Researchers conjecture that these algorit...
Mark F. Rogers, Adele E. Howe, Darrell Whitley
AIPS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Scalable Planning for Distributed Stream Processing Systems
Recently the problem of automatic composition of workflows has been receiving increasing interest. Initial investigation has shown that designing a practical and scalable composit...
Anton Riabov, Zhen Liu
AIPS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Probabilistic Planning with Nonlinear Utility Functions
Researchers often express probabilistic planning problems as Markov decision process models and then maximize the expected total reward. However, it is often rational to maximize ...
Yaxin Liu, Sven Koenig
AIPS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Memory-Efficient Symbolic Heuristic Search
Rune M. Jensen, Eric A. Hansen, Simon Richards, Ro...
AIPS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Reconfigurable Path Planning for an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
In this paper, we present a motion planning framework for a fully deployed autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle which integrates two sample-based motion planning techniques, Probabi...
Mariusz Wzorek, Patrick Doherty
AIPS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Combining Knowledge Compilation and Search for Conformant Probabilistic Planning
We present a new algorithm for conformant probabilistic planning, which for a given horizon produces a plan that maximizes the probability of success under quantified uncertainty ...
Jinbo Huang
AIPS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Reusing and Building a Policy Library
Policy Reuse is a method to improve reinforcement learning with the ability to solve multiple tasks by building upon past problem solving experience, as accumulated in a Policy Li...
Fernando Fernández, Manuela M. Veloso
AIPS
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Predictive Planning for Supply Chain Management
Supply chains are ubiquitous in the manufacturing of many complex products. Traditionally, supply chains have been created through the intricate interactions of human representati...
David Pardoe, Peter Stone