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SoCS 2013: The Sixth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search

Program

July 11

18:30-20:30 Dinner

July 12

08:45-09:00 Opening Remarks
09:00-09:50 Invited Talk: Chris Beck (joint invited talk with SARA)
09:50-10:50 Session I: Constraint Programming and SAT (joint session with SARA) (session chair: Toby Walsh)
  • Taha Arbaoui, Jean-Paul Boufflet and Aziz Moukrim.
    An Analysis Framework for Examination Timetabling
  • Naina Razakarison, Nicolas Beldiceanu, Mats Carlsson and Helmut Simonis.
    GAC for a Linear Inequality and an Atleast Constraint with an Application to Learning Simple Polynomials
  • John P. Dickerson and Tuomas Sandholm.
    Throwing darts: Random sampling helps tree search when the number of short certificates is moderate
10:50-11:20 Coffee Break
11:20-12:40 Session II: Search Algorithms (session chair: Richard Korf)
  • Lucie Galand, Anisse Ismaili, Patrice Perny and Olivier Spanjaard.
    Bidirectional Preference-based Search for Multiobjective State Space Graph Problems
  • Meir Goldenberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan Sturtevant, Robert C. Holte and Jonathan Schaeffer.
    Optimal-Generation Variants of EPEA*
  • Sandip Aine and Maxim Likhachev.
    Anytime Truncated D*: Anytime Replanning with Truncation
  • Matthew Hatem, Roni Stern and Wheeler Ruml.
    Bounded Suboptimal Heuristic Search in Linear Space
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:20 Session III: Planning and UCT (session chair: Malte Helmert)
  • Peter Jonsson, Christer Bäckström and Simon Ståhlberg.
    Fast Detection of Unsolvable Planning Instances Using Local Consistency
  • Álvaro Torralba and Vidal Alcázar.
    Constrained Symbolic Search: On Mutexes, BDD Minimization and More
  • Michael Katz and Jörg Hoffmann.
    Red-Black Relaxed Plan Heuristics Reloaded
  • Carmel Domshlak and Zohar Feldman.
    To UCT, or not to UCT? (Position Paper)
15:20-15:50 Coffee Break
15:50-16:40 Session IV: Poster Spotlights and Path-planning Competition Results (session chair: Carlos Linares López)
16:40-18:30 Poster Session
18:30-20:30 Dinner
20:30-21:30 Awards and Discussion

July 13

09:00-09:50 Invited Talk: Gene Cooperman
09:50-10:50 Session V: Algorithm Selection and Performance Prediction (session chair: Jörg Hoffmann)
  • Mauro Vallati, Chris Fawcett, Alfonso Emilio Gerevini, Holger H. Hoos and Alessandro Saetti.
    Automatic Generation of Efficient Domain-Optimized Planners from Generic Parametrized Planners
  • Yuri Malitsky, Deepak Mehta and Barry O'Sullivan.
    Evolving Instance Specific Algorithm Configuration
  • Levi Lelis.
    Active Stratified Sampling with Clustering-Based Type Systems for Predicting the Search Tree Size of Problems with Real-Valued Heuristics
10:50-11:20 Coffee Break
11:20-12:20 Session VI: Real-time Search (session chair: Sven Koenig)
  • Ethan Burns, Scott Kiesel and Wheeler Ruml.
    Experimental Real-time Heuristic Search Results in a Video Game
  • Guni Sharon, Nathan Sturtevant and Ariel Felner.
    Online Detection of Dead States in Real-Time Agent-Centered Search
  • Nicolás Rivera, León Illanes, Jorge Baier and Carlos Hernández Ulloa.
    Reconnecting with the Ideal Tree: An Alternative to Heuristic Learning in Real-Time Search
12:20-13:40 Lunch Break
13:40-15:00 Session VII: Pathfinding and Ride Sharing (session chair: Nathan Sturtevant)
  • Zahy Bnaya, Roni Stern, Ariel Felner, Roie Zivan and Steven Okamoto.
    Multi-Agent Path Finding for Self Interested Agents
  • Athanasios Krontiris, Ryan Luna and Kostas Bekris.
    From Feasibility Tests to Path Planners for Multi-Agent Pathfinding
  • Hu Xu, Lei Shu and May Huang.
    Planning Paths with Fewer Turns on Grid Maps
  • Florian Drews and Dennis Luxen.
    Multi-Hop Ride Sharing
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:10 Session VIII: Final Session (session chair: Gabriele Röger)
  • Alejandro Arbelaez and Luis Quesada.
    Parallelising the k-Medoids Clustering Problem Using Space-Partitioning
  • André Grahl Pereira, Marcus Rolf Peter Ritt and Luciana Salete Buriol.
    Finding Optimal Solutions to Sokoban Using Instance Dependent Pattern Databases
16:10-16:20 Closing Remarks