Craig Boutilier's papers

A Selection of Craig Boutilier's Recent Papers

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Belief Revision with Unreliable Observations

Craig Boutilier, Nir Friedman and Joseph Y. Halpern
To appear, AAAI-98.
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (123K).

Hierarchical Solution of Markov Decision Processes using Macro-actions

Milos Hauskrecht, Nicolas Meuleau, Craig Boutilier, Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Thomas Dean
Revised version of this to appear, UAI-98.
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (174K).

Solving Very Large Weakly Coupled Markov Decision Processes

Nicolas Meuleau, Milos Hauskrecht, Kee-Eung Kim, Leonid Peshkin, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Thomas Dean and Craig Boutilier
To appear, AAAI-98.
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (187K).

Structured Reachability Analysis for Markov Decision Processes

Craig Boutilier, Ronen I. Brafman and Christopher Geib
To appear, UAI-98.
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (166K).

LPSP: A Linear Plan-level Stochastic Planner

Ronen I. Brafman, Holger H. Hoos and Craig Boutilier
Unpublished manuscript.
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (91K).

The Dynamics of Reinforcement Learning in Cooperative Multiagent Systems

Caroline Claus and Craig Boutilier,
To appear, AAAI-98.
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (139K).
An earlier and rather different version appeared in the AAAI Workshop on Multiagent Learning, 1997. This earlier version contains material on partial action observability, not present in the latter (which contains material on optimistic exploration methods that increase the probability of converging to optimal equilibria not contained in the earlier version).
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (134K).

AIJ Editorial: Economic Principles of Multi-Agent Systems

Craig Boutilier, Yoav Shoham and Michael P. Wellman,
Artificial Intelligence Journal 94(1):1-6 (1997).
You can retrieve the paper (69K).

Prioritized Goal Decomposition of Markov Decision Processes: Toward a Synthesis of Classical and Decision Theoretic Planning

Craig Boutilier, Ronen I. Brafman and Christopher Geib,
To Appear, IJCAI-97, Nagoya
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (119K).

A Unified Model of Qualitative Belief Change: A Dynamical Systems Perspective

Craig Boutilier,
To appear, Artificial Intelligence Journal
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (281K).

Structured Solution Methods for Non-Markovian Decision Processes

Fahiem Bacchus, Craig Boutilier and Adam Grove
To Appear, AAAI-97, Providence
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (100K).

Planning with Concurrent Interacting Actions

Craig Boutilier and Ronen I. Brafman,
To Appear, AAAI-97, Providence
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (135K).

Structured Arc Reversal and Simulation of Dynamic Probabilistic Networks

Adrian Y. W. Cheuk and Craig Boutilier ,
To Appear, UAI-97, Providence
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (277K).

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To Appear, UAI-97, Providence
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (188K).

A Constraint-Based Approach to Preference Elicitation and Decision Making

Craig Boutilier, Ronen I. Brafman Christopher Geib and David Poole
Appeared, AAAI Spring Symposium on Qualitative Decision Theory, March 1997.
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (149K).

Context-Specific Independence in Bayesian Networks

Craig Boutilier, Nir Friedman, Moises Goldszmidt and Daphne Koller
Appeared, UAI-96, Portland, OR.
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (160K).

Learning Conventions in Multiagent Stochastic Domains using Likelihood Estimates

Craig Boutilier
Appeared, UAI-96, Portland, OR.
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (160K).

Rewarding Behaviors

Fahiem Bacchus, Craig Boutilier and Adam Grove
Appeared, AAAI-96, Portland, OR.
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (191K).

Approximating Value Trees in Structured Dynamic Programming

Craig Boutilier and Richard Dearden
Appeared, ICML-96, Bari, ITALY.
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (149K).

Computing Optimal Policies for Partially Observable Decision Processes using Compact Representations

Craig Boutilier and David Poole
Appeared, AAAI-96, Portland, OR.
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (213K).

Planning, Learning and Coordination in Multiagent Decision Processes

Craig Boutilier
Appeared, TARK-96
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (231K).

The Frame Problem and Bayesian Network Action Representations

Craig Boutilier and Moises Goldszmidt
Appeared, CSCSI-96, Toronto, May 1996.
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (228K).

Abstraction and Approximate Decision Theoretic Planning

Richard Dearden and Craig Boutilier
Artificial Intelligence 89(1):219-283 (1997).
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (465K).

Exploiting Structure in Policy Construction

Craig Boutilier, Richard Dearden and Moises Goldszmidt
To appear, IJCAI-95 (see also AAAI Spring Symposium on Extending Theories of Action, Stanford, March 1995).
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (195K).

Process-Oriented Planning and Average-Reward Optimality

Craig Boutilier and Martin L. Puterman
To appear, IJCAI-95
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (150K).

Generalized Update: Belief Change in Dynamic Settings

Craig Boutilier
To appear, IJCAI-95
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (116K).

Planning Under Uncertainty: Structural Assumptions and Computational Leverage

Craig Boutilier, Thomas Dean and Steve Hanks
Unpublished Manuscript (version to appear in Proc. 3rd European Workshop on Planning (EWSP'95), Assisi, Italy, September, 1995).
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (298K).

Nondeterministic Actions and the Frame Problem

Craig Boutilier and Nir Friedman
Unpublished Manuscript (version to appear in AAAI Spring Symposium on Extending Theories of Action, Stanford, March 1995).
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (105K).

Abduction as Belief Revision

Craig Boutilier and Veronica Becher
Artificial Intelligence Journal 77(1):43-94 (1995).
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (349K).

Abduction to Plausible Causes: An Event-based Model of Belief Update

Craig Boutilier
Artificial Intelligence Journal 83(1):143-166 (1996).
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (171K).

Iterated Revision and Minimal Change of Conditional Beliefs

Craig Boutilier
Journal of Philosophical Logic 25(3):262-305 (1996).
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (288K).

On the Revision of Probabilistic Belief States

Craig Boutilier
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 36(1):158-183 (1995).
You can view the abstract or you can retrieve the paper (283K).

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