To the editor: The emergence of the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic strain in 2009 and its subsequent spread has stimulated national and international interest in pandemic influenza control. It is likely to also be stimulating further revisions of pandemic plans around the world, especially given the possibility of on-going waves. Such pandemic planning can involve sunk costs that might never be re...

Many benchmark domains in AI planning including Blocks, Logistics, Gripper, Satellite, and others lack the interactions that characterize puzzles and can be solved non-optimally in low polynomial time. They are indeed easy problems for people, although as with many other problems in AI, not always easy for machines. In this paper, we address the question of whether simple problems such as these...

We develop a novel mechanism for coordinated, distributed multiagent planning. We consider problems stated as a collection of single-agent planning problems coupled by common soft constraints on resource consumption. (Resources may be real or fictitious, the latter introduced as a tool for factoring the problem). A key idea is to recast the distributed planning problem as learning in a repeated...

This paper describes our experience implementing navigation behavior for two different autonomous multi-robot systems using two very different approaches. We describe the problems encountered and their solutions and the extensions necessary to support planning for multiple robots in our application domains. We conclude that there are many applications of path-planning that would be well served ...

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