Links to the papers discussed in the optional class

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

Here are the papers that are relevant to the discussion in yesterday's 
optional MDP lecture:


SPUDD: Use of ADDs to represent policies, reward functions etc.

 http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/staubin/Spudd/UAI99.ps.gz is the paper
               http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/staubin/Spudd/ has the program


LAO*: http://www.cs.msstate.edu/~hansen/papers/aaai98.ps is a conference paepr
   (Here is the journal version--contains the ao* picture I showed: 
http://www.cs.msstate.edu/~hansen/papers/laostar.pdf )


Greedy RTDP: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~bonet/reports/lrtdp.pdf


Envelope extension:

http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/cse574/envelope-ext-aaai93.pdf

an older paper that first had this idea (didn't use MDP formalization)
          http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/cse574/drummond-anytime.pdf


Rao

ps: Here is the scoop on Shockley--one of the fathers of the 
Transistor--see the 3rd page about his work on dysgenics..

http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/shockley.html

I was wrong--he got one Nobel--not two.  (only Pauling  and Bardeen 
http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/People/jbardeen.html got two nobels)