List of Accepted Papers

Main track

• Masataro Asai and Alex Fukunaga
  Solving Large Scale Planning Problems with Component Macros
• Zongzhang Zhang, David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee, Zhan Wei Lim and Aijun Bai
  PLEASE: Palm Leaf Search for POMDPs with Large Observation Spaces
• Gregor Behnke, Daniel Höller and Susanne Biundo
  On the Complexity of HTN Plan Verification and its Implications for Plan Recognition
• Eli Boyarski, Ariel Felner, Guni Sharon and Roni Stern
  Don't Split, Try To Work It Out : Bypassing Conflicts in Multi-Agent Pathfinding
• Akshat Kumar and Shlomo Zilberstein
  History-Based Controller Design And Optimization For Partially Observable MDPs
• Supriyo Ghosh, Pradeep Varakantham, Yossiri Adulyasak and Patrick Jaillet
  Dynamic Redeployment to Counter Congestion or Starvation in Vehicle Sharing Systems
• Raúl Mencía, Maria R Sierra, Carlos Mencía and Ramiro Varela
  Schedule generation schemes and genetic algorithm for the scheduling problem with skilled operators and arbitrary precedence relations
• Vidal Alcázar and Álvaro Torralba
  A Reminder about the Importance of Computing and Exploiting Invariants in Planning
• Jing Cui, Peng Yu, Cheng Fang, Patrik Haslum and Brian Williams
  Optimising Bounds in Simple Temporal Networks with Uncertainty under Dynamic Controllability Constraints
• Fan Xie, Martin Mueller and Robert Holte
  Understanding and Improving Local Exploration for GBFS
• Simon Mountakis, Tomas Klos and Cees Witteveen
  Temporal Flexibility Revisited: Maximizing flexibility by computing bipartite matchings
• Ran Taig and Ronen I. Brafman
  A Compilation-Based Approach to Conformant Probabilistic Planning with Stochastic Actions
• Erez Karpas, David Wang, Brian Williams and Patrik Haslum
  Temporal Landmarks: What Must Happen, and When
• Tansel Uras and Sven Koenig
  Speeding-up Any-Angle Path-Planning on Grids
• Doron Nussbaum and Alper Yorukcu
  Moving Target Search with Subgoal Graphs
• Toby Davies, Adrian R. Pearce, Peter J. Stuckey and Nir Lipovetzky
  Sequencing Operator Counts ( Outstanding Paper Award )
• Michal Štolba, Daniel Fišer and Antonín Komenda
  Admissible Landmark Heuristic for Multi-Agent Planning
• Filippos Kominis and Hector Geffner
  Beliefs in Multiagent Planning: From One Agent to Many
• Alejandro Torreño, Oscar Sapena and Eva Onaindia
  Global Heuristics for Distributed Cooperative Multi-Agent Planning
• Sergio Jiménez, Anders Jonsson and Héctor Palacios
  Temporal Planning With Required Concurrency Using Classical Planning
• Joerg Hoffmann and Maximilian Fickert
  Explicit Conjunctions w/o Compilation: Computing h^FF(Pi^C) in Polynomial Time
• Jendrik Seipp, Florian Pommerening and Malte Helmert
  New Optimization Functions for Potential Heuristics
• Peter Gregory and Stephen Cresswell
  Domain Model Acquisition in the Presence of Static Relations in the LOP System( Outstanding Paper Award Runner-up )
• Guillem Francès and Hector Geffner
  Modeling and Computation in Planning: Better Heuristics from More Expressive Languages ( Outstanding Student Paper Award Runner-up )
• Malte Helmert, Gabriele Röger and Silvan Sievers
  On the Expressive Power of Non-Linear Merge-and-Shrink Representations
• Florian Pommerening and Malte Helmert
  A Normal Form for Classical Planning Tasks
• Daniel Gnad and Joerg Hoffmann
  Beating LM-cut with h^max (Sometimes): Fork-Decoupled State Space Search
• Sergiy Bogomolov, Daniele Magazzeni, Stefano Minopoli and Martin Wehrle
  "PDDL+ Planning with Hybrid Automata: Foundations of Translating Must Behavior
• Ron Alford, Pascal Bercher and David Aha
  Tight Bounds for HTN Planning
• Mauro Vallati, Ivan Serina, Alessandro Saetti and Alfonso Emilio Gerevini
  Identifying and Exploiting Features for Effective Plan Retrieval in Case-Based Planning
• Alexander J. Benavides and Marcus Ritt
  Iterated local search heuristics for minimizing total completion time in permutation and non-permutation flow shops
• Ekhlas Sonu, Yingke Chen and Prashant Doshi
  Individual Planning in Agent Populations: Exploiting Anonymity and Frame-Action Hypergraphs
• Murugeswari Issakkimuthu, Roni Khardon, Shan Xue, Alan Fern and Prasad Tadepalli
  Hindsight Optimization for Probabilistic Planning with Factored Actions

Special track on Novel Applications

• Adrien Maillard, Cédric Pralet, Jean Jaubert, Isabelle Sebbag, Frédéric Fontanari and Julien L'Hermitte
  Ground and board decision-making on data downloads
• Adi Botea and Stefano Braghin
  Contingent versus Deterministic Plans in Multi-Modal Journey Planning
• Alexandre Albore, Nathalie Peyrard, Régis Sabbadin and Florent Teichteil-Königsbuch
  An online replanning approach for crop fields mapping with autonomous UAVs
• Haibo Wang, Hanna Kurniawati, Surya Singh and Mandyam Srinivasan
  In-silico Behavior Discovery System: An Application of Planning in Ethology( Outstanding Student Paper Award )
• Anton Riabov, Shirin Sohrabi, Daby Sow, Deepak Turaga, Octavian Udrea and Long Vu
  Planning-Based Reasoning for Automated Large-Scale Data Analysis
• David Surovik and Daniel Scheeres
  Heuristic Search and Receding-Horizon Planning in Complex Spacecraft Orbit Domains

Special track on Planning and Scheduling in Robotics

• Michael Cashmore, Maria Fox, Derek Long, Daniele Magazzeni, Arnau Carrera, Narcis Palomeras, Natalia Hurtos and Marc Carreras
  ROSPlan: Planning in the Robot Operating System
• Michal Čáp, Jiří Vokřínek and Alexander Kleiner
  Complete Decentralized Method for On-Line Multi-Robot Trajectory Planning in Valid Infrastructures
• David Abel, Gabriel Barth-Maron, D. Ellis Hershkowitz, Stephen Brawner, Kevin O'Farrell, James Macglashan and Stefanie Tellex
  Affordances as Goal-Based Action Priors
• Vera Mersheeva and Gerhard Friedrich
  Multi-UAV Monitoring with Priorities and Limited Energy Resources
• Giuseppe Bevacqua, Jonathan Cacace, Alberto Finzi and Vincenzo Lippiello
  Mixed-Initiative Planning and Execution for Multiple Drones in Search and Rescue Missions
• Erez Karpas, Peng Yu, Steven Levine and Brian Williams
  Robust Execution of Plans for Human-Robot Teams

Journal Presentation track

• R. Nissim and R. Brafman. (2014).
  Distributed Heuristic Forward Search for Multi-agent Planning.
  Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 51, pp. 293-332.
• Zohar Feldman and Carmel Domshlak. (2014).
  Simple Regret Optimization in Online Planning for Markov Decision Processes.
  Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 51, pp. 165-205.
• Christoph Dann, Gerhard Neumann, and Jan Peters. (2014).
  Policy Evaluation with Temporal Differences: A Survey and Comparison.
  Journal of Machine Learning Research, 15, pp. 809–883.
• L. Kunze and M. Beetz. (2015).
  Envisioning the qualitative effects of robot manipulation actions using simulation-based projections.
  Artificial Intelligence.
• Matthias Nickles and Achim Rettinger. (2014).
  Interactive relational reinforcement learning of concept semantics.
  Machine Learning, 94 (2), pp. 169-204.
• Marek Grzes, Pascal Poupart, Xiao Yang, and Jesse Hoey. (to appear).
  Energy Efficient Execution of POMDP Policies .
  IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.