Fast Downward Stone Soup

Fast Downward Stone Soup: A Baseline for Building Planner Portfolios

Fast Downward Stone Soup is a sequential portfolio planner that uses various heuristics and search algorithms that have been implemented in the Fast Downward planning system. We present a simple general method for concocting “planner soups”, sequential portfolios of planning algorithms, and describe the actual recipes used for Fast Downward Stone Soup in the sequential optimization and sequenti...

Performance Analysis of Planning Portfolios

In recent years the concept of sequential portfolio has become an important topic to improve the performance of modern problem solvers, such as SAT engines or planners. The PbP planner and more recently Fast Downward Stone Soup are successful approaches in Automated Planning that follow this trend. However, neither a theoretical analysis nor formal definitions about sequential portfolios have b...

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Alphabet Soup: Design and development of a short form game

In this paper, we describe the design and development of a short form game, Alphabet Soup. Alphabet Soup is designed to use Bayesian networks in conjunction with data from UNESCO, UNICEF, and WHO to create realistic results within gameplay about social issues around the world. This paper illustrates our attempts to implement an artificial intelligence system in short form game design. Using Bay...

Story of Stone Soup: a recipe to improve health disparities.

Just as scientific articles are used as a way of sharing knowledge in scientific communities, stories are used as a way of transferring knowledge within African American communities. This article uses the story and metaphor of Stone Soup to illustrate the Healthy African American Families' (HAAF) Community Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) method of engaging diverse partners to address he...