Publications:
2015
2014
- Decentralized Decision-Making Under Uncertainty for
Multi-Robot Teams. Christopher Amato, George
Konidaris, Jonathan P. How and Leslie P. Kaelbling. In Proceedings
of the Future of Multiple Robot Research and its Multiple
Identities at the International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2014. [pdf]
- Combined Planning Under Uncertainty for Communication
and Control in Multi-Robot Teams. Christopher Amato,
George Konidaris, Jonathan P. How and Leslie P. Kaelbling.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Communication-aware
Robotics: New Tools for Multi-Robot Networks, Autonomous
Vehicles, and Localization (CarNet) at Robotics:
Science and Systems Conference, July 2014. [pdf forthcoming]
- Graph-Based Planning to Solve Multi-Agent POMDPs.
Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, Shayegan Omidshafiei, Christopher
Amato and Jonathan P. How. In Proceedings of the
Workshop on Distributed Control and Estimation for Robotic
Vehicle Networks at Robotics: Science and Systems
Conference, July 2014. [pdf forthcoming]
- Planning for Decentralized Control
of Multiple Robots Under Uncertainty. Christopher
Amato, George Konidaris, Gabriel Cruz, Christopher A.
Maynor, Jonathan P. How and Leslie P. Kaelbling. In Proceedings
of the Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob) at
the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Automated
Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-14), Portsmouth, NH, June
2014. [pdf]
[arXiv link of
previous version]
- Planning with Macro-Actions in
Decentralized POMDPs. Christopher Amato, George
Konidaris and Leslie P. Kaelbling. In Proceedings of the
Thirteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents
and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-14), Paris, France, May
2014. [pdf]
- Exploiting
Separability in Multi-Agent Planning with
Continuous-State MDPs. Jilles S. Dibangoye,
Christopher Amato, Olivier Buffet and François Charpillet.
In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International
Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS-14), Paris, France, May 2014. [pdf]
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2013
- Decentralized Control of Partially
Observable Markov Decision Processes. Christopher
Amato, Girish Chowdhary, Alborz Geramifard, Nazim Kemal Ure
and Mykel J. Kochenderfer. In Proceedings of the
Fifty-Second IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
(CDC-13), Florence, Italy, December 2013. [pdf]
- Scalable Bayesian Reinforcement
Learning for Multiagent POMDPs.
Christopher Amato, Frans A. Oliehoek and Eric Shyu. In Proceedings
of the Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement
Learning and Decision Making (RLDM-13), Princeton,
NJ, October 2013. [pdf forthcoming]
- Optimally
Solving Dec-POMDPs as Continuous-State MDPs.
Jilles S. Dibangoye, Christopher Amato, Olivier Buffet and
François Charpillet. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-13), Beijing, China, August 2013. [pdf]
- Incremental Clustering and Expansion
for Faster Optimal Planning in Decentralized POMDPs.
Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Christopher
Amato and Shimon Whiteson. Journal of Artificial
Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2013. [link]
- Bayesian Reinforcement Learning for
Multiagent Systems with State Uncertainty.
Christopher Amato and Frans A. Oliehoek. In Proceedings
of the Workshop on Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making
in Uncertain Domains (MSDM) at the Twelfth
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-13), Saint Paul, MN, May 2013.
[pdf forthcoming]
- Producing Efficient Error-bounded
Solutions for Transition Independent Decentralized MDPs.
Jilles S. Dibangoye, Christopher Amato, Arnaud Doniec
and François Charpillet. In Proceedings of the Twelfth
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-13), Saint Paul, MN, May
2013. [pdf]
2012
- Diagnose and Decide: An Optimal
Bayesian Approach. Christopher Amato and Emma
Brunskill. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Bayesian
Optimization & Decision Making at the
Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on Neural Information
Processing Systems (NIPS-12), Lake Tahoe, NV, December 2012.
[pdf]
- Scaling Up Decentralized MDPs Through
Heuristic Search. Jilles S. Dibangoye,
Christopher Amato and Arnaud Doniec. In Proceedings of
the Twenty-Eighth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial
Intelligence (UAI-12), Catalina Island, California,
August 2012. [pdf]
- Using POMDPs to Control an
Accuracy-Processing Time Tradeoff in Video Surveillance.
Komal Kapoor, Christopher Amato, Nisheeth Srivastava and
Paul Schrater. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth
Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial
Intelligence (IAAI-12), Toronto, Canada, July 2012. [pdf]
2011
- Decision Support in Organizations: A
Case for OrgPOMDPs. Pradeep Varakantham, Nathan
Schur, Alan Carlin and Christopher Amato. In
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-11),
Lyon, France, August 2011. [pdf forthcoming]
- Scaling Up Optimal Heuristic Search
in Dec-POMDPs via Incremental Expansion. Frans
A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan and Christopher Amato. In
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11),
Barcelona, Spain, July, 2011. [pdf]
- Adaptive Decision Support for
Structured Organizations: A Case for OrgPOMDPs.
Pradeep Varakantham, Nathan Schur, Alan Carlin and
Christopher Amato. Short Paper to in Proceedings of the
Tenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-11), Taipei, Taiwan, May
2011. [pdf forthcoming]
- Towards Realistic Decentralized
Modeling for Use in a Real-World Personal Assistant
Agent Scenario. Christopher Amato, Nathan
Schurr and Paul Picciano. In Proceedings of the
Workshop on Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems
(OptMAS) at the Tenth International Conference on Autonomous
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-11), Taipei, Taiwan,
May 2011. [pdf]
- Decentralized Models for Use in a
Real-World Personal Assistant Agent Scenario.
Christopher Amato, Nathan Schurr and Paul Picciano. Proceedings
of the AAAI Spring Symposium entitled Help Me Help You:
Bridging the Gaps in Human-Agent Collaboration,
Stanford, California, March, 2011. [pdf forthcoming]
2010
- Increasing Scalability in Algorithms
for Centralized and Decentralized Partially Observable
Markov Decision Processes: Efficient Decision-Making and
Coordination in Uncertain Environments.
Christopher Amato. Ph.D. Dissertation, May, 2010. [pdf]
- Finite-state controllers based on
Mealy machines for centralized and decentralized POMDPs.
Christopher Amato, Blai Bonet and Shlomo Zilberstein.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10), Atlanta, GA, July,
2010. [pdf]
- High-level Reinforcement Learning
in Strategy Games.
Christopher Amato and Guy Shani. Proceedings of the
Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-10), Toronto, Canada,
May, 2010. [pdf]
- Solving Identical Payoff Bayesian
Games with Heuristic Search. Frans A. Oliehoek,
Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Jilles S. Dibangoye and Christopher
Amato. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference
on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS-10), Toronto, Canada, May, 2010. [pdf]
2009
- Optimizing Fixed-size Stochastic
Controllers for POMDPs and Decentralized POMDPs.
Christopher Amato, Daniel S. Bernstein and Shlomo
Zilberstein. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems (JAAMAS) 2009. [pdf]
- Incremental Policy Generation for
Finite-Horizon DEC-POMDPs. Christopher Amato,
Jilles Steeve Dibangoye and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings
of the Nineteenth International Conference on Automated
Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-09), Thessaloniki,
Greece, September, 2009. [pdf]
- Achieving Goals in Decentralized
POMDPs. Christopher Amato and Shlomo
Zilberstein. Proceedings of the Eighth International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems (AAMAS-09), Budapest, Hungary, May, 2009. [pdf]
- Policy Iteration for Decentralized
Control of Markov Decision Processes. Daniel S.
Bernstein, Christopher Amato, Eric A. Hansen and Shlomo
Zilberstein. Journal of AI Research (JAIR), vol. 34,
pages 89-132, February, 2009. [pdf]
2008
- Policy Iteration for Decentralized
Control of Markov Decision Processes. Daniel S.
Bernstein, Christopher Amato, Eric A. Hansen and Shlomo
Zilberstein. University of Massachusetts, Department of
Computer Science Tech Report UM-CS-2008-044 , December,
2008. [pdf]
- What's Worth Memorizing:
Attribute-based Planning for DEC-POMDPs.
Christopher Amato and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of
the Multiagent Planning Workshop (MASPLAN) at the
Eighteenth International Conference on Automated Planning
and Scheduling (ICAPS-08), Sydney, Australia, September,
2008. [pdf]
- Optimizing Fixed-Size Stochastic
Controllers for POMDPs. Christopher Amato,
Daniel S. Bernstein and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings
of the Workshop on Advancements in POMDP Solvers at
the Twenty-Third International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-08), Chicago, Illinois, July, 2008. [pdf]
- Heuristic Policy Iteration for
Infinite-Horizon Decentralized POMDPs.
Christopher Amato, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings
of the Workshop on Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making
in Uncertain Domains (MSDM) at the Seventh
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-08), Estoril, Portugal, May,
2008. [pdf]
2007
- Optimizing Fixed-Size Stochastic
Controllers for POMDPs and Decentralized POMDPs.
Christopher Amato, Daniel S. Bernstein and Shlomo
Zilberstein. University of Massachusetts, Department of
Computer Science Tech Report UM-CS-2007-70, December, 2007.
[pdf]
- Optimizing Memory-Bounded Controllers
for Decentralized POMDPs. Christopher Amato,
Daniel S. Bernstein and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings
of the Twenty-Third Conference on Uncertainty in
Artificial Intelligence, (UAI-07) Vancouver, BC,
Canada, July, 2007. [pdf(corrected)]
- Bounded Dynamic Programming for
Decentralized POMDPs. Christopher Amato, Alan
Carlin and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the
Workshop on Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making in
Uncertain Domains (MSDM) at the Sixth International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems (AAMAS-07) , Honolulu, Hawai'i, May, 2007. [pdf]
- Solving POMDPs Using Quadratically
Constrained Linear Programs. Christopher Amato,
Daniel S. Bernstein and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings
of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), Hyderabad, India,
January, 2007. [pdf]
2006
- Optimal Fixed-Size Controllers for
Decentralized POMDPs. Christopher Amato, Daniel
S. Bernstein and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the
Workshop on Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Making in
Uncertain Domains (MSDM) at the Fifth International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems (AAMAS) , Future University-Hakodate, May, 2006. [pdf]
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