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Making Shared Plans More Concise and Easier to Reason About

SharedPlans is a general theory of collaborative planning that accommodates multi-level action decomposition hierarchies and ex-plicates the process of expanding partial plans into full plans 5, 6]. This paper presents a reformulation of SharedPlans that simpliies the Shared-Plans deenitions without sacriicing their expressiveness, and enables the speciication of conditions under which a set of...

Making Life Easier for Firefighters

Being a firefighter is a tough job, especially when tight city budgets do not allow enough firefighters to be on duty when a fire starts. This is formalized in the Firefighter problem, which aims to save as many vertices of a graph as possible from a fire that starts in a vertex and spreads through the graph. In every time step, a single additional firefighter may be placed on a vertex, and the...

Dummy Elimination: Making Termination Easier

Making Even Swaps Even Easier

This paper introduces an approach to support different phases of the Even Swaps process by Preference Programming, which is a framework for modeling incomplete information within multiattribute value theory. In the approach, the Even Swaps process is carried out as usual, but in parallel the preferences of the decision maker are modeled with a Preference Programming model, which is also updated...

Making Maximum Entropy Computations Easier

This paper presents a new way to compute the probability distribution with maximum entropy satisfying a set of constraints. Unlike previous approaches , our method is integrated with the planning of data collection and tabulation. We show how adding constraints and performing the associated additional tabulations can substantially speed up computation by replacing the usual iterative techniques...