Planning and Game Theory
The University of Maryland has one of the world's best research and educational programs on AI approaches to planning and game theory.
Faculty & Staff
Students
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Former Faculty & Staff PhD Graduates | MS Graduates
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BS with Honors
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Publications: here is a partial list
Courses:
- CMSC 828N, Game Theory - graduate seminar
- CMSC 722, AI Planning - graduate course
- CMSC 421, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - undergraduate course
Selected events and accomplishments:
- 2009: V.S. Subrahmanian has been elected to AAAS Fellow
- 2009: We have analyzed the cultaptation social learning game and have an algorithm that produces provably near-optimal strategies. A paper on this will be available shortly.
- 2009: Ugur Kuter is co-organizing the IJCAI-09 Workshop on Learning Structural Knowledge from Observations.
- 2008: Our PhD graduate Qiang Yang was elected to IEEE Fellow
- 2008: Dana Nau was a keynote speaker at both ProMAS-08 and at ICCCD-08
- 2008: RFF won the Fully Observable Probabilistic track of the 2008 International Planning Competition
- 2008: Automated Planning: Theory and Practice has been translated into Chinese by Prof. Yunfei Jiang at Zhongshan University
- 2007: Founding of the annual International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD)
- 2007: Dana Nau's comments on automated poker-playing computer programs were reported in the Washington Post, USA Today, and elsewhere
- 2007: Dana Nau was a keynote speaker at BISFAI-07
- 2006: DBS scored third of of 165 entrants in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Competition "Noise" category
- 2006: Austin Parker's Kbott program for the game of kriegspiel won a silver medal at the 11th International Computer Games Olympiad
- 2005: Dana Nau was an invited speaker at AAAI-05
- 2005: Creation of the Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics (LCCD)
- 2005: Workshop on Decision Making in Adversarial Domains
- 2004: Automated Planning: Theory and Practice is the first comprehensive textbook and reference book on automated planning
- 2004: Our PhD graduate Subbarao Kambhampati was elected to AAAI Fellow
- 2003: Dana Nau co-chaired ICAPS-03
- 2002: SHOP2 won one of the top four awards in the 2002 International Planning Competition
- 2002: Our paper on our derUCP planning algorithm won the best research paper award at ECCBR
- 2000: The Naval Research Lab's HICAP evacuation plan-authoring system incorporates our JSHOP planner
- 1999: James Hendler was elected to AAAI Fellow
- 1997: Bridge Baron won the 1997 world champion of computer bridge
- 1996: Dana Nau was elected to AAAI Fellow
- 1994: Our paper on our IMACS process-planning system got a best-paper award in the 1994 ASME Computers in Engineering Conference
- 1994: Universal Method Composition Planner (UMCP) was the first provably sound and complete HTN planning system
- 1991: Our paper on the complexity of blocks-world planning got an honorable mention for best written paper at AAAI-91
- 1979: Discovery of game-tree search pathology
