Our Publications

2008

  • Interaction Structure and Dimensionality Reduction in Decentralized MDPs. Martin Allen, Marek Petrik and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08), Chicago, Illinois, July, 2008. [pdf]

  • Value-Based Observation Compression for DEC-POMDPs. Alan Carlin and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-08), Estoril, Portugal, May, 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). Held in conjunction with the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-08), Estoril, Portugal, May, 2008. [pdf]

  • 2007

  • Learning to Communicate in a Decentralized Environment. Claudia V. Goldman, Martin Allen, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 15(1):47-90, 2007. [pdf]
  • Agent Influence as a Predictor of Difficulty for Decentralized Problem-Solving. Martin Allen and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Vancouver, BC, Canada, July, 2007. [pdf]

  • Anytime Coordination Using Separable Bilinear Programs. Marek Petrik and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Vancouver, BC, Canada, July, 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 Intelligences (UAI-07), Vancouver, BC, Canada, July, 2007. [pdf]
  • Improved Memory-Bounded Dynamic Programming for Decentralized POMDPs. Sven Seuken and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligences (UAI-07), Vancouver, BC, Canada, July, 2007. [pdf]
  • 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). Held in conjunction with the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-07) , Honolulu, Hawai'i, May, 2007. [pdf]
  • Memory-Bounded Dynamic Programming for DEC-POMDPs. Sven Seuken and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligences (IJCAI-07), January 2007 [pdf]
  • Average-Reward Decentralized Markov Decision Processes. Marek Petrik and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligences (IJCAI-07), 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). Held in conjunction with the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-06) , Future University-Hakodate, May, 2006. [pdf]
  • 2005

  • Learning to Communicate in Decentralized Systems. Martin Allen, Claudia V. Goldman, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the Wokshop on Multiagent Learning, 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, PA, July, 2005. [pdf]

  • Bounded Policy Iteration for Decentralized POMDPs. Daniel S. Bernstein, Eric A. Hansen, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005. [pdf]

  • MAA*: A Heuristic Search Algorithm for Solving Decentralized POMDPS. Daniel Szer, Francois Charpillet, Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-05), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005. [ps]

    2004

  • Decentralized Markov Decision Processes with Event-Driven Interactions. Raphen Becker, Shlomo Zilberstein, and Victor Lesser. Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS-04), July, 2004. [pdf]

  • Decentralized Control of Cooperative Systems: Categorization and Complexity Analysis. Claudia Goldman and Shlomo Zilberstein. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR-04), Volume 22, pp. 143-174, November, 2004. [ps] [pdf]

  • Decentralized Language Learning Through Acting. Claudia V. Goldman, Martin Allen and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-04), July, 2004. [pdf]

  • Dynamic Programming for Partially Observable Stochastic Games. Eric A. Hansen, Daniel S. Bernstein, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), 709-715, San Jose, California, July 2004. [pdf]

    2003

  • Transition-Independent Decentralized Markov Decision Processes. Raphen Becker, Shlomo Zilberstein, Victor Lesser and Claudia V. Goldman. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems. (AAMAS-03), Melbourne, Australia, July, 2003. (winner of the AAMAS-03 best paper award) [pdf]

  • Mechanism Design for Communication in Cooperative Systems. Claudia V. Goldman and Shlomo Zilberstein. Game Theoretic and Decision Theoretic Agents Workshop at the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-03), Melbourne, Australia, July, 2003. [ps]

  • Optimizing Information Exchange in Cooperative Multi-agent Systems. Claudia V. Goldman and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-03), Melbourne, Australia, July, 2003. [pdf]

    2002

  • The Complexity of Decentralized Control of Markov Decision Processes. Daniel S. Bernstein, Robert Givan, Neil Immerman, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Mathematics of Operations Research, 27(4):819-840, November 2002. (An earlier version appeared in UAI-00.) [pdf]

    2001

  • Communication Decisions in Multi-agent Cooperation: Model and Experiments. Ping Xuan, Victor Lesser and Shlomo Zilberstein. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 616-623. January 2001. [ps]

    2000

  • The Complexity of Decentralized Control of Markov Decision Processes. Daniel S. Bernstein, Shlomo Zilberstein, and Neil Immerman. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 32-37, Stanford, California, June 2000. [ps] [pdf]


    Other Publications

    2005

  • A Framework for Sequential Planning in Multi-Agent Settings. Piotr Gmytrasiewicz and Prashant Doshi. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Volume 24, pp. 49-79, 2005. [ps] [pdf]

  • Networked Distributed POMDPs: A Synthesis of Distributed Constraint Optimization and POMDPs. Ranjit Nair, Pradeep Varakantham, Milind Tambe and Makoto Yokoo. Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, PA, July, 2005. [pdf]

  • An Optimal Best-first Search Algorithm for Solving Infinite Horizon DEC-POMDPs. Daniel Szer and Francois Charpillet. Proceedings of the Sixteenth European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-05), Porto, Portugal, October, 2005. [ps]

    2004

  • An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to Decentralized Control of Stochastic Systems. Randy Cogill, Michael Rotkowitz, Benjamin Van Roy, and Sanjay Lall. Proceedings of the Forty-Third Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing , Champaign-Urbana, Il, 2004. [pdf]

  • Approximate Solutions for Partially Observable Stochastic Games with Common Payoffs. Rosemary Emery-Montemerlo, Geoff Gordon, Jeff Schneider and Sebastian Thrun. Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS-04), July, 2004. [ps]

    2003

  • Taming Decentralized POMDPs: Towards Efficient Policy Computation for Multiagent Settings. Ranjit Nair, David Pynadath, Makoto Yokoo, Milind Tambe and Stacy Marsella. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), Acapulco, Mexico, August, 2003. [ps] [pdf]

  • Role Allocation and Reallocation in Multiagent Teams: Towards a Practical Analysis. Ranjit Nair, Milind Tambe and Stacy Marsella . Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-03), Melbourne, Australia, July, 2003. [ps] [pdf]

    2002

  • The Communicative Multiagent Team Decision Problem: Analyzing Teamwork Theories and Models. David V. Pynadath and Milind Tambe. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Volume 16, pp. 389-423. 2002. [ps] [pdf]

  • Multi-Agent Policies: From Centralized Ones to Decentralized Ones. Ping Xuan and Victor Lesser. Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Volume Part 3, ACM Press, pp. 1098-1105. 2002. [ps]

    1999

  • Sequential Optimality and Coordination in Multiagent Systems. Craig Boutilier. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99), Stockholm, Swededn, 1999. [ps]


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