Doctoral Consortium

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Proceedings

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Program

The DC program consists of two events:

A) DC meeting on September 19th (whole day). This meeting comprises short oral presentations, activities in themed-cluster working groups and meetings with mentors. More particularly, the schedule for this day is:

09:00-09:30	Introduction amphitheater 9
09:30-10:30	Themed-cluster working groups. Each student will have 15 minutes for oral presentation. amphitheaters 9, 8, 7, 5 and 4 for clusters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Themed-cluster working groups - mentoring activity amphitheaters 9, 8, 7, 5 and 4 for clusters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively
12:30-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-14:30	Invited talk by Subbarao Kambhampati: How to write a research paper (and not to die trying it). amphitheater 9
14:30-15:30	Themed-cluster working groups. Preparation of a roadmap for the final global debriefing amphitheaters 9, 8, 7, 5 and 4 for clusters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:30	Final global debriefing (all DC students). Each working group will have 15 minutes for oral presentation amphitheater 9
17:30-18:00	Conclusions amphitheater 9

B) DC poster session on Monday, September 21st, 15:30 to 16:45. This session comprises a poster session attached to the main ICAPS conference. More information about the size of the poster stands is available here.

Themed-cluster working groups & mentoring activities

There will be five clusters, organised as follows:

Cluster 1 (amphitheater 9)

Student	Paper	Mentor
Andrey Kolobov	Integrating Paradigms for Approximate Probabilistic Planning	Daniel Bryce
Marcello Cirillo	A Human-Aware Robot Task Planner	Daniel Bryce
Omar Zia Khan	Minimal Sufficient Explanations for Factored Markov Decision Processes	Hector Geffner

Cluster 2 (amphitheater 8)

Student	Paper	Mentor
Masahiro Ono	Market-based Risk Allocation for Multi-agent Systems	Federico Pecora
Frederik Heger	A Hybrid Assembly Task Planning System: Where Motion Planning Helps Symbolic Planning Find Good Solutions For Real-World Applications	Federico Pecora
Kartik Talamadupula	Integrating a Closed World Planner and an Open World Robot	Ari Jonsson
Alexander Niveau	Using Interval Automata to Represent Decision Policies with Continuous Variables	Ari Jonsson

Cluster 3 (amphitheater 7)

Student	Paper	Mentor
Xiaoxun Sun	Efficient Incremental Search for Moving Target Search	Adi Botea
Jordan Thayer	Revisiting Bounded Suboptimal Heuristic Search	Adi Botea
Hootan Nakhost	Action Elimination and Plan Neighborhood Graph Search: Two Algorithms for Plan Improvement	Joerg Hoffmann
Erez Karpas	Learning to Combine Admissible Heuristics Under Bounded Time	Derel Long

Cluster 4 (amphitheater 5)

Student	Paper	Mentor
Nir Lipovetzky	Inference and Decomposition in Planning Using Causal Consistent Chains	T. Lee McCluskey
Alan Lindsay	Learning Policies to Exploit an Extended Domain Model	Daniel Borrajo
James MacGlashan	Hierarchical Skill Learning for High-Level Planning	Susana Fernández
Shahin Shah	An Investigation into Using Object Constraints to Synthesize Planning Domain Models	Daniel Borrajo

Cluster 5 (amphitheater 4)

Student	Paper	Mentor
Robert Effinger	Dynamic Controllability of Temporally-flexible Reactive Programs	Andrew Coles
Mauro Vallati	An Automatically Configurable Portfolio-based Planner with Macro-actions: PbP	Andrew Coles
Patrick Conrad	Flexible Execution of Plans with Choice	Angelo Oddi
Melissa Liew	Issues in Temporal Planning using Timed Petri Nets	Angelo Oddi