Abstractions, Decisions, and Uncertainty

Papers from the AAAI Workshop

Christopher Geib, Program Chair

Technical Report WS-97-08 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California

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Statement of Interest: An Abstraction Hierarchy of Battlefield Agents / 1
J. W. Baxter and R. T. Hepplewhite

Statement of Interest: Heuristic Real-Time Dynamic Programming (Preliminary Results) / 3
Blai Bonet and Hector Geffner

Statement of Interest: Research Summary / 6
Lise C. Getoor

Statement of Interest: Model Reduction Techniques for Computing Approximately Optimal Solutions for Markov Decision Processes / 7
Robert Givan and Thomas Dean

Papers

Spatial Aggregation: Modeling and Controlling Physical Fields / 8
Christopher Bailey-Kellogg and Feng Zhao

Structured Reachability Analysis for Markov Decision Processes / 17
Craig Boutilier, Ronen I. Brafman, Christopher Geib

Correlated Action Effects in Decision Theoretic Regression / 23
Craig Boutilier and Richard Dearden

Stratified Case-Based Reasoning in Non-Refinable Abstraction Hierarchies / 29
L. Karl Branting

Bayes Network Abstraction for Decision-Theoretic Planning / 35
Vu Ha and Peter Haddawy

Incremental Tradeoff Resolution in Qualitative Probabilistic Networks / 41
Chao-Lin Liu and Michael P. Wellman

Using Evidential Reasoning to Manage Abstraction and Uncertainty in Planning / 47
Todd Michael Mansell

Abstraction and Aggregation in Belief Networks / 53
Ole J. Mengshoel and David C. Wilkins

Contingency Selection in Plan Generation / 59
Nilufer Onder and Martha Pollack

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