We address the issue of incorporating domain-specific preferences in planning systems, where a preference may be seen as a "soft" constraint that it is desirable, but no...
Abstract— Computing a motion that enables a mobile manipulator to open a door is challenging because it requires tight coordination between the motions of the arm and the base. H...
An important drawback to the popular Belief, Desire, and Intentions (BDI) paradigm is that such systems include no element of learning from experience. We describe a novel BDI exe...
This paper describes an approach for designing a power management plan that matches the supply of power with the demand for power in data centers. Power may come from the grid, fro...
Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Cullen Bash, Yuan Chen,...
In sequential decision-making problems formulated as Markov decision processes, state-value function approximation using domain features is a critical technique for scaling up the...