Publications Bibtex
@inproceedings{alford2016hierarchical, title = {Hierarchical planning: relating task and goal decomposition with task sharing}, author = {Alford, Ron and Shivashankar, Vikas and Roberts, Mark and Frank, Jeremy and Aha, David W.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence ({IJCAI})}, year = {2016}, month = {July}, address = {New York City, NY, USA}, organization = {AAAI Press} }
@inproceedings{alford2016bound, title = {Bound to Plan: Exploiting Classical Heuristics via Automatic Translations of Tail-Recursive {HTN} Problems}, author = {Alford, Ron and Behnke, Gregor and H{\"o}ller, Daniel and Biundo, Susanne and Bercher, Pascal and Aha, David W.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling ({ICAPS})}, year = {2016}, month = {June}, address = {London, UK}, organization = {AAAI Press} }
@inproceedings{borck2015case2, title = {Case-based Policy and Goal Recognition}, author = {Borck, Hayley and Karneeb, Justin and Floyd, Michael W. and Alford, Ron and Aha, David W.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR)}, year = {2015}, month = {September}, address = {Frankfurt, Germany}, organization = {Springer} }
@inproceedings{alford2015tight2, title = {Tight bounds for {HTN} Planning with Task Insertion}, author = {Alford, Ron and Bercher, Pascal and Aha, David W.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)}, pages = {1502--1508}, year = {2015}, month = {July}, address = {Buenos Aires, Argentina}, organization = {AAAI Press} }
@inproceedings{alford2015tight2abstract, title = {Tight bounds for {HTN} Planning with Task Insertion (Extended Abstract)}, author = {Alford, Ron and Bercher, Pascal and Aha, David W.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS)}, year = {2015}, month = {June}, address = {Ein Gedi, Isreal}, organization = {AAAI Press} }
@inproceedings{alford2015tight, title = {Tight bounds for {HTN} Planning}, author = {Alford, Ron and Bercher, Pascal and Aha, David W.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)}, pages = {7--15}, year = {2015}, month = {June}, address = {Jerusalem, Isreal}, organization = {AAAI Press} }
@inproceedings{alford2015active, title = {Active Behavior Recognition in Beyond Visual Range Air Combat}, author = {Alford, Ron and Borck, Hayley and Karneeb, Justin and Aha, David W.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS)}, address = {Atlanta, GA, USA}, year = {2015}, month = {May}, organization = {Cognitive Systems Foundation} }
@inproceedings{borck2015case, title = {Case-Based Behavior Recognition in Beyond Visual Range Air Combat}, author = {Borck, Hayley and Karneeb, Justin and Alford, Ron and Aha, David W.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS)}, address = {Hollywood, FL, USA}, year = {2015}, month = {May}, organization = {AAAI Press} }
@inproceedings{borck2014case, title = {Case-Based Behavior Recognition to Facilitate Planning in Unmanned Air Vehicles}, author = {Borck, Hayley and Karneeb, Justin and Alford, Ron and Aha, David W.}, editor = {Vattam, Swaroop and Aha, David W}, booktitle = {ICCBR Workshop on Case-based Agents}, address = {University College Cork: Cork, Ireland}, year = {2014}, month = {September} }
@article{alford2014plan, title = {Plan aggregation for strong cyclic planning in nondeterministic domains}, author = {Alford, Ron and Kuter, Ugur and Nau, Dana and Goldman, Robert P.}, journal = {Artificial Intelligence}, year = {2014}, month = {November}, volume = {216}, pages = {206--232}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2014.07.007} }
@inproceedings{alford2014feasibility, title = {On the feasibility of planning graph style heuristics for {HTN} planning}, author = {Alford, Ron and Shivashankar, Vikas and Kuter, Ugur and Nau, Dana S.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenth-Fourth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)}, pages = {2--10}, year = {2014}, month = {June}, address = {Portsmouth, NH, USA}, organization = {AAAI Press} }
@inproceedings{roberts2014iterative, title = {Iterative Goal Refinement for Robotics}, author = {Roberts, Mark and Vattam, Swaroop and Alford, Ronald and Auslander, Bryan and Karneeb, Justin and Molineaux, Matthew and Apker, Tom and McMahon, James and Aha, David W.}, booktitle = {Planning and Robotics: Papers from the ICAPS Workshop}, year = {2014}, month = {June}, address = {Portsmouth, NH, USA}, organization = {AAAI Press} }
@phdthesis{alford2013search, title = {Search Complexities for {HTN} Planning}, author = {Ron Alford}, school = {University of Maryland, College Park}, year = {2013}, month = {December} }
@inproceedings{shivashankar2013hierarchical, title = {Hierarchical Goal Networks and Goal-Driven Autonomy: Going where {AI} Planning Meets Goal Reasoning}, author = {Shivashankar, Vikas and Alford, Ron and Kuter, Ugur and Nau, Dana S.}, booktitle = {Goal Reasoning: Papers from the ACS Workshop}, year = {2013}, month = {December}, address = {Baltimore, MD, USA}, pages = {95--110} }
@inproceedings{shivashankar2013godel, title = {The {GoDeL} planning system: a more perfect union of domain-independent and hierarchical planning}, author = {Shivashankar, Vikas and Alford, Ron and Kuter, Ugur and Nau, Dana}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Third international Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)}, year = {2013}, month = {August}, address = {Beijing, China}, organization = {AAAI Press}, pages = {2380--2386} }
@inproceedings{alford2012htn, title = {{HTN} Problem Spaces: Structure, Algorithms, Termination.}, author = {Alford, Ronald and Shivashankar, Vikas and Kuter, Ugur and Nau, Dana S}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS)}, year = {2012}, month = {July}, pages = {2--9}, address = {Niagara Falls, Canada}, publisher = {AAAI Press} }
@inproceedings{shivashankar2012hierarchical, title = {A hierarchical goal-based formalism and algorithm for single-agent planning}, author = {Shivashankar, Vikas and Kuter, Ugur and Nau, Dana and Alford, Ron}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)}, year = {2012}, month = {June}, address = {Valencia, Spain}, organization = {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems}, pages = {981--988}, volume = {2} }
@inproceedings{alford2009translating, title = {Translating {HTN}s to {PDDL}: A Small Amount of Domain Knowledge Can Go a Long Way.}, author = {Alford, Ronald and Kuter, Ugur and Nau, Dana S}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)}, year = {2009}, month = {July}, address = {Pasadena, CA, USA}, pages = {1629--1634}, publisher = {AAAI Press} }
@inproceedings{alford2009maintaining, title = {Maintaining Focus: Overcoming Attention Deficit Disorder in Contingent Planning}, author = {Alford, Ron and Kuter, Ugur and Nau, Dana and Reisner, Elnatan and Goldman, Robert}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS)}, pages={177--182}, year = {2009}, month = {May}, address = {Sanibel Island, FL, USA}, publisher = {AAAI Press} }
@article{myers2005cosmic, title = {Cosmic ray 1H and 2H spectra from {BESS} 98}, author = {Myers, ZD and Seo, ES and Wang, JZ and Alford, RW and Abe, K and Anraku, K and Asaoka, Y and Fujikawa, M and Imori, M and Maeno, T and others}, journal = {Advances in Space Research}, year = {2005}, number = {1}, pages = {151--155}, volume = {35}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2003.10.050}, publisher = {Pergamon} }
@inproceedings{ganel2002cosmic, title = {Cosmic ray energetics and mass ({CREAM}): calibrating a cosmic ray calorimeter}, author = {Ganel, O and Seo, ES and Ahn, HS and Alford, R and Kim, KC and Lee, MH and Liu, L and Lutz, L and Malinine, A and Schindhelm, E and others}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics}, year = {2002}, address = {Pasadena, CA}, pages = {133--138} }
@inproceedings{ganel2001cosmic, title = {Cosmic ray energetics and mass: configuration and progress on construction and testing}, author = {Ganel, O and Seo, ES and Ahn, HS and Alford, R and Beach, S and Beatty, JJ and Coutu, S and Duvernois, MA and Han, YJ and Kim, HJ and others}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Cosmic Ray Conference}, year = {2001}, pages = {2163}, volume = {6} }
@inproceedings{wang2001space, title = {Space based calorimeters: Heavy ion simulations}, author = {Wang, JZ and Seo, ES and Ahn, HS and Ganel, O and Han, YJ and Kim, HJ and Kim, KC and Kim, SK and Koo, IM and Kwon, YI and others}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Cosmic Ray Conference}, year = {2001}, pages = {1445}, volume = {4} }
@inproceedings{wang2001isotopic, title = {Isotopic measurements of cosmic-ray hydrogen and helium during the 1997 solar minimum}, author = {Wang, JZ and Seo, ES and Alford, RW and Abe, K and Anraku, K and Fujikawa, M and Imori, M and Maeno, T and Makida, Y and Matsui, N and others}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Cosmic Ray Conference}, year = {2001}, pages = {1671}, volume = {5} }