RESEARCH

          Probabilistic planning with the help of external memory with Dr. Daniel S. Weld and Dr. Mausam

          Planning under uncertainty and constraints with Dr. Judy Goldsmith et al.

Publications

Conferences:

Finding k best policies
Peng Dai and Judy Goldsmith. First International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory ADT-09, Venice, Italy, October 2009. to appear

Focused Topological Value Iteration
Peng Dai, Mausam and Daniel S. Weld. Nineteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling ICAPS-09, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2009. pp.***-***

Domain-Independent, Automatic Partitioning for Probabilistic Planning
Peng Dai, Mausam and Daniel S. Weld. Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI-09, Pasadena, CA, July 2009. pp.1677-1683

Partitioned External Memory Value Iteration
Peng Dai, Mausam and Daniel S. Weld. Twenty-Third National Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI-08, Chicago, IL, July 2008. pp. 898-904

Expediting RL by Using Graphical Structures
Peng Dai, Alexander L. Strehl and Judy Goldsmith. Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS-08, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008. pp. 1325-1328

Prioritizing Bellman Backups without a Priority Queue
Peng Dai and Eric A. Hansen. Seventeenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling ICAPS-07, Providence, RI, September 2007. pp. 113-119

Multi-threaded BLAO* Algorithm
Peng Dai and Judy Goldsmith. Twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society conference FLAIRS-07, Key West, FL, May 2007. pp. 56-62

Topological value iteration algorithm for Markov decision processes
Peng Dai and Judy Goldsmith. Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI-07, Hyderabad, India, January 2007. pp.1860-1865

Referred workshops:

Heuristic Search Ideas for Deterministic and Probabilistic Problems
Peng Dai. ICAPS-08 Workshop on A Reality Check for Planning and Scheduling Under Uncertainty, Sydney, Austrilia, September 2008. pp.**-**

LAO*, RLAO*, or BLAO*
Peng Dai and Judy Goldsmith. AAAI-06 Workshop on Heuristic Search, Memory-Based Heuristics and Their Applications, Boston, MA, July 2006. pp.59-64

Faster Dynamic Programming for MDPs
Peng Dai and Judy Goldsmith. ICAPS-07 Doctoral Consortium

Bidirectional heuristic search MDP solvers
2/20/07 Rutgers University