Symposium Program

Program at a Glance

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May 26: Master Class

10:00 - 10:15: Opening of the Master Class
10:15 - 11:00: Abdallah Saffidine: Solving algorithms for two-player games from the ground up
11:00 - 11:30: Break
11:30 - 12:30: Roman Bartak: Compilation-based approaches to planning and scheduling
12:30 - 13:30: Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:15: Marco Maratea: Answer Set Programming: Modeling, Solving and Applications
15:15 - 15:45: Break
15:45 - 17:00: Nathan Sturtevant: Heuristic Search: You have hear it said, but I tell you...
17:00 - 17:30: Break
17:30 - 18:30: Roni Stern: Domain-dependent and domain-independent suboptimal heuristic search

May 27

10:00 - 10:15: Opening and Welcome
10:15 - 11:15: Session 1: Search and Search Strategies (i)
11:15 - 11:45: Break
11:45 - 12:45: Session 2: Applications and Games
12:45 - 14:00: Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00: Session 3: Search and Search Strategies (ii)
15:00 - 15:30: Break
15:30 - 16:30: Invited Talk: Rina Dechter

May 28

10:30 - 11:30: Invited Talk: Peter Stuckey
11:30 - 12:00: Break
12:00 - 13:00: Session 4: Multi-Agent Path Finding
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00: Awards Ceremony
15:00 - 15:30: Break
15:30 - 17:00: Session 5: Planning
17:00 - 17:15: Break
17:15 - 18:15: Community Meeting + Closing (Join the SoCS Forum for the Zoom meeting ID)

Proceedings

Online proceedings of SoCS 2020 are available at: https://aaai.org/Library/SOCS/socs20contents.php

Best Papers Awards (Awards Ceremony)

• An Atom-Centric Perspective on Stubborn Sets (Long),
  Gabriele Roeger, Malte Helmert, Jendrik Seipp and Silvan Sievers

• Decision Tree Learning-Inspired Dynamic Variable Ordering for the Weighted CSP (Long),
  Hong Xu, Kexuan Sun, Sven Koenig and T. K. Satish Kumar

Sessions

• Multi-Resolution A* (Long),
  Wei Du, Fahad Islam and Maxim Likhachev


• A Guide to Budgeted Tree Search (Long),
  Nathan Sturtevant and Malte Helmert


• A Simple and Fast Bi-Objective Search Algorithm (Abstract),
  Carlos Hernandez Ulloa, William Yeoh, Jorge A. Baier, Luis Suazo, Han Zhang and Sven Koenig


• On the Differences and Similarities of fMM and GBFHS (Long),
  Shahaf Shperberg and Ariel Felner

• Surrogate Assisted Optimisation for Travelling Thief Problems (Short),
  Majid Namazi, Conrad Sanderson, M.A. Hakim Newton and Abdul Sattar


• Branch-and-Bound for the Precedence Constrained Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem (Abstract),
  Peter Damaschke, Raad Salman and Fredrik Ekstedt


• Solving the Watchman Route Problem on a Grid with Heuristic Search (Abstract),
  Tamir Jaffey, Shawn Seiref, Margarita Lopatin and Ariel Felner


• Transition to eBuses with Minimal Timetable Disruptions (Abstract),
  Alejandro Arbelaez and Laura Climent


• A String-Pulling Approach to Post-Smoothing on Grid Graphs (Short),
  Jihee Han, Tansel Uras and Sven Koenig


• Too Good to Throw Away: A Powerful Reuse Strategy for Reiter's Hitting Set Tree (Abstract),
  Patrick Rodler

• Heuristic AND/OR Search for Solving Influence Diagram (Abstract),
  Junkyu Lee, Radu Marinescu and Rina Dechter


• Trial-based Heuristic Tree Search for MDPs with Factored Action Spaces (Long),
  Florian Geisser, David Speck and Thomas Keller


• Multi-Directional Search (Abstract),
  Dor Atzmon, Jiaoyang Li, Ariel Felner, Eliran Nachmani, Shahaf Shperberg, Nathan Sturtevant and Sven Koenig


• Embedding Directed Graphs in Potential Fields Using FastMap-D (Long),
  Sriram Gopalakrishnan, Liron Cohen, Sven Koenig and T. K. Satish Kumar


• F-Cardinal Conflicts in Conflict-Based Search (Abstract),
  Eli Boyarski, Daniel Harabor, Peter J. Stuckey, Pierre Le Bodic and Ariel Felner

• New Techniques for Pairwise Symmetry Breaking in Multi-Agent Path Finding (Abstract),
  Jiaoyang Li, Graeme Gange, Daniel Harabor, Peter J. Stuckey, Hang Ma and Sven Koenig


• Generalizing Multi-Agent Path Finding for Heterogeneous Agents (Short),
  Dor Atzmon, Yonathan Zax, Einat Kivity, Lidor Avitan, Jonathan Morag and Ariel Felner


• On Modelling Multi-Agent Path Finding as a Classical Planning Problem (Abstract),
  Jindrich Vodrazka, Roman Bartak, Jiri Svancara


• From Multi-Agent Pathfinding to 3D Pipe Routing (Long),
  Gleb Belov, Wenbo Du, Maria Garcia De La Banda, Daniel Harabor, Sven Koenig and Xinrui Wei


• Moving Agents in Formation in Congested Environments (Abstract),
  Jiaoyang Li, Kexuan Sun, Hang Ma, Ariel Felner, T. K. Satish Kumar and Sven Koenig

• Applying Monte-Carlo Tree Search in HTN Planning (Long),
  Julia Wichlacz, Daniel Hoeller, Alvaro Torralba and Joerg Hoffmann


• Cooperative Path Planning for Heterogeneous Agents (Abstract),
  Keisuke Otaki, Satoshi Koide, Ayano Okoso and Tomoki Nishi


• Solving Classical AI Planning Problems Using Planning-Independent CP Modeling and Search (Long),
  Behrouz Babaki, Gilles Pesant and Claude-Guy Quimper


• Planning Against Adversary in Zero-sum Games: Heuristics for Selecting and Ordering Critical Actions (Long),
  Lukas Chrpa, Pavel Rytir and Rostislav Horcik


• Computing Plan-Length Bounds Using Lengths of Longest Paths (Abstract),
  Mohammad Abdulaziz and Dominik Berger