Brandon Wilson

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Research Interests: artificial intelligence, machine learning, game theory

Brief Statement:
As of Spring 2009, I am working under the advisement of Dr. Dana Nau. My research is currently focused on identifying local pathology in subtrees of potentially non-pathological game trees. Pathology in game tree search is a phenomenon discovered nearly 30 years ago by Dana Nau in which deeper search may actually result in poorer decision quality. (more on this coming soon...)

 


Publications:

[1] Brandon Wilson, Austin Parker, and Dana Nau, "Error Minimizing Minimax: Avoiding Search Pathology in Game Trees," The International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, Lake Arrowhead, California, 2009. [pdf]

[2] Brandon Wilson. "Test-cost Sensitive Regression for Planner Runtime Prediction." Master's Thesis, University of Maryland Baltimore County. 2008. [pdf]

[3] Mark Roberts, Adele Howe, Brandon Wilson and Marie desJardins, "What makes planners predictable?," Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2008. [pdf]

[4] Brandon Wilson and Marie desJardins, "Forming Stable, Overlapping Coalitions in an Open Mulit-agent System." Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Regarding the Intelligence in Distributed Intelligent Systems, 2007.