Advancements in POMDP Solvers
Papers from the 2008 AAAI Workshop
Guy Shani, Program Chair
Technical Report WS-08-01 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
Contents
Organizing Committee / vii
Guy Shani
Optimizing Fixed-Size Stochastic Controllers for POMDPs / 1
Christopher Amato, Daniel S. Bernstein, Shlomo Zilberstein
Solving POMDPs from Both Sides: Growing Dual Parsimonious Bounds / 7
Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, Geoffrey Gordon, Manuela Veloso
Continuous-State POMDPs with Hybrid Dynamics / 13
Emma Brunskill, Leslie Kaelbling, Tomas Lozano-Perez, Nicholas Roy
POMDP and DEC-POMDP Point-Based Observation Aggregation / 19
Alan Carlin, Shlomo Zilberstein
Topological Orders Based Planning for Solving POMDPs / 25
Jilles S. Dibangoye, Brahim Chaib-draa, Abdel-illah Mouaddib
Sparse Stochastic Finite-State Controllers for POMDPs / 31
Eric A. Hansen
A Consolidated Actor-Critic Model with Function Approximation for High-Dimensional POMDPs / 37
Christopher Niedzwiedz, Itamar Elhanany, Zhenzhen Liu, Scott Livingston
Point-Based Value Iteration Algorithms for Multi-Core Machines / 43
Guy Shani
Cooperative Active Perception using POMDPs / 49
Matthijs T.J. Spaan
Hierarchical POMDP Controller Optimization by Likelihood Maximization / 55
Marc Toussaint, Laurent Charlin, Pascal Poupart
Integrating Expert Knowledge into POMDP Optimization for Spoken Dialog Systems / 61
Jason D. Williams