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Planning under uncertainty (POMDPs)

  • Sebastian Junges and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Abstraction-Refinement for Hierarchical Probabilistic Models. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Aided Verification, pp. 102–123, 2022.
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  • Joris Scharpff, Daan Schraven, Leentje Volker, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. Can multiple contractors self-regulate their joint service delivery? A serious gaming experiment on road maintenance planning. Construction Management and Economics, 39(2):99–116, Routledge, 2021.
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  • Martine van den Boomen, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Yue Shang, and A. R. M. Wolfert. Infrastructure maintenance and replacement optimization under multiple uncertainties and managerial flexibility. Construction Management and Economics, 38(1):91–107, Routledge, 2020.
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  • Jennifer Renoux, Tiago S. Veiga, Pedro U. Lima, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. A Unified Decision-Theoretic Model for Information Gathering and Communication Planning. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 67–74, 2020.
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  • Erwin Walraven and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Point-Based Value Iteration for Finite-Horizon POMDPs. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 65:307–341, 2019.
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  • C. J. A. Ter Berg, G. Leontaris, M. van den Boomen, M. T. J. Spaan, and A. R. M. Wolfert. Expert judgement based maintenance decision support method for structures with a long service-life. Structure & Infrastructure Engineering, 15(4):492–503, Taylor & Francis, 2019.
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  • M. van den Boomen, M. T. J. Spaan, R. Schoenmaker, and A.R.M. Wolfert. Untangling decision tree and real options analyses: a public infrastructure case study dealing with political decisions, structural integrity and price uncertainty. Construction Management and Economics, 37(1):24–43, Routledge, 2018.
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  • Yi-Chun Chen, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Improving Offline Value-Function Approximations for POMDPs by Reducing Discount Factors. In Proc. of International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018.
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  • Frits de Nijs, Georgios Theocharous, Nikos Vlassis, Mathijs M. de Weerdt, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Capacity-aware Sequential Recommendations. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 416–424, 2018.
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  • Diederik M. Roijers, Erwin Walraven, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Bootstrapping LPs in Value Iteration for Multi-Objective and Partially Observable MDPs. In Proc. of Int. Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling, pp. 218–226, 2018.
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  • Yash Satsangi, Shimon Whiteson, Frans A. Oliehoek, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Exploiting Submodular Value Functions for Scaling Up Active Perception. Autonomous Robots, 42:209–233, 2018.
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  • Erwin Walraven and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Column Generation Algorithms for Constrained POMDPs. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 62:489–533, 2018.
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  • Erwin Walraven and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Accelerated Vector Pruning for Optimal POMDP Solvers. In Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 3672–3678, 2017.
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  • Erwin Walraven and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Planning under Uncertainty for Aggregated Electric Vehicle Charging using Markov Decision Processes. In International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Smart Grids and Smart Buildings, 2016.
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  • Erwin Walraven, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Bram Bakker. Traffic flow optimization: A reinforcement learning approach. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 52:203–212, 2016.
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  • Erwin Walraven and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Planning under Uncertainty for Aggregated Electric Vehicle Charging with Renewable Energy Supply. In Proc. of European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 904–912, 2016.
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  • Yash Satsangi, Shimon Whiteson, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. An Analysis of Piecewise-Linear and Convex Value Functions for Active Perception POMDPs. Technical Report IAS-UVA-15-01, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, 2015.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Tiago S. Veiga, and Pedro U. Lima. Decision-theoretic Planning under Uncertainty with Information Rewards for Active Cooperative Perception. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 29(6):1157–1185, 2015.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Frans A. Oliehoek, Christopher Amato, Andrey Kolobov, and Pascal Poupart, editors. Sequential Decision Making for Intelligent Agents, Fall Symposium Series Technical Report, AAAI Press, 2015.
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  • Tiago S. Veiga, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pedro U. Lima. Improving Value Function Approximation in Factored POMDPs by Exploiting Model Structure. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 1872–1873, 2015. Extended abstract.
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  • Erwin Walraven and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Planning under Uncertainty with Weighted State Scenarios. In AAAI Fall Symposium on Sequential Decision Making for Intelligent Agents, 2015. Extended abstract
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  • Erwin Walraven and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Planning under Uncertainty with Weighted State Scenarios. In Proc. of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 912–921, 2015.
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  • Diederik M. Roijers, Joris Scharpff, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Frans A. Oliehoek, Mathijs de Weerdt, and Shimon Whiteson. Bounded Approximations for Linear Multi-Objective Planning under Uncertainty. In Proceedings of the 26th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 168–169, 2014. Extended abstract
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  • Diederik M. Roijers, Joris Scharpff, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Frans A. Oliehoek, Mathijs de Weerdt, and Shimon Whiteson. Bounded Approximations for Linear Multi-Objective Planning under Uncertainty. In Proc. of Int. Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling, pp. 262–270, 2014.
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  • Tiago S. Veiga, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pedro U. Lima. Point-based POMDP Solving with Factored Value Function Approximation. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 2512–2518, 2014.
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  • Jan Elffers, Dyan Konijnenberg, Erwin Walraven, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Enhancing SAT Based Planning with Landmark Knowledge. In Proceedings of the 25th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 64–71, 2013.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes. In Marco Wiering and Martijn van Otterlo, editors, Reinforcement Learning: State of the Art, pp. 387–414, Springer Verlag, 2012.
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  • Ana Rita Mendes, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pedro U. Lima. Planning under Uncertainty for Search and Rescue. In Robótica -- 11th Int. Conf. on Mobile Robots and Competitions, pp. 52–57, 2011.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Tiago S. Veiga, and Pedro U. Lima. Active Cooperative Perception in Network Robot Systems Using POMDPs. In Proc. of International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4800–4805, 2010.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan and Pedro U. Lima. Decision-theoretic Planning under Uncertainty for Active Cooperative Perception. In POMDP Practitioners Workshop: solving real-world POMDP problems, 2010. Workshop at ICAPS10
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  • Marco Barbosa, Alexandre Bernardino, Dario Figueira, José Gaspar, Nelson Gonçalves, Pedro U. Lima, Plinio Moreno, Abdolkarim Pahliani, José Santos-Victor, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and João Sequeira. ISRobotNet: A Testbed for Sensor and Robot Network Systems. In Proc. of International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2827–2833, 2009.
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  • Abdolkarim Pahliani, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pedro U. Lima. Decision-theoretic Robot Guidance for Active Cooperative Perception. In Proc. of International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4837–4842, 2009.
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  • Alberto Reyes, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and L. Enrique Sucar. An Intelligent Assistant for Power Plants based on Factored MDPs. In Int. Conf. on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems, 2009.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan and Pedro U. Lima. A Decision-theoretic Approach to Dynamic Sensor Selection in Camera Networks. In Int. Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling, pp. 279–304, 2009.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan and Pedro U. Lima. Decision-theoretic Planning under Uncertainty for Cooperative Active Perception. In NIPS Workshop on Adaptive Sensing, Active Learning and Experimental Design, 2009.
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  • Josep M. Porta, Nikos Vlassis, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pascal Poupart. Point-Based Value Iteration for Continuous POMDPs. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 7:2329–2367, November 2006.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Approximate planning under uncertainty in partially observable environments. Ph.D. Thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2006.
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  • Frans Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Nikos Vlassis. Best-response play in partially observable card games. In Benelearn 2005: Proceedings of the 14th Annual Machine Learning Conference of Belgium and the Netherlands, pp. 45–50, February 2005.
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  • Josep M. Porta, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Nikos Vlassis. Robot Planning in Partially Observable Continuous Domains. In Proc. of the 17th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artifical Intelligence, pp. 375–376, Brussels, Belgium, October 2005. Extended abstract.
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  • Josep M. Porta, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Nikos Vlassis. Robot Planning in Partially Observable Continuous Domains. In Robotics: Science and Systems, pp. 217–224, MIT Press, 2005.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan and Nikos Vlassis. Planning with continuous actions in partially observable environments. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3469–3474, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan and Nikos Vlassis. Perseus: Randomized Point-based Value Iteration for POMDPs. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 24:195–220, 2005.
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  • Frans C. A. Groen, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Jelle R. Kok. Real world multiagent systems: information sharing, coordination and planning. In Trilateral workshop on Military Applications of Agent Technology in ICT and Robotics, TNO FEL, The Hague, November 2004.
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  • Josep M. Porta, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Nikos Vlassis. Value iteration for continuous-state POMDPs. Technical Report IAS-UVA-04-04, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, 2004.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan and Nikos Vlassis. A point-based POMDP algorithm for robot planning. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2399–2404, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2004.
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  • M. T. J. Spaan, M. Koutek, B. Terwijn, J. R. Kok, H. E. Bal, M. Boasson, F. C. A. Groen, and N. Vlassis. Interactive visualization, information sharing, planning and learning for a team of robots. In Proc. 5th PROGRESS Workshop on Embedded Systems, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, 2004.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan and Nikos Vlassis. Perseus: randomized point-based value iteration for POMDPs. Technical Report IAS-UVA-04-02, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, 2004.
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  • Nikos Vlassis and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. A fast point-based algorithm for POMDPs. In Benelearn 2004: Proceedings of the Annual Machine Learning Conference of Belgium and the Netherlands, pp. 170–176, Brussels, Belgium, January 2004. (Also presented at the NIPS 16 workshop `Planning for the Real-World', Whistler, Canada, Dec 2003)
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Cooperative multirobot systems

  • Stefan J. Witwicki, José Carlos Castillo, Jesús Capitán, João V. Messias, João C. Reis, Pedro U. Lima, Francisco S. Melo, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. A Testbed for Autonomous Robot Surveillance (Demonstration). In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 1635–1636, 2014.
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  • Jesús Capitán, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Luis Merino, and An\'ibal Ollero. Decentralized Multi-Robot Cooperation with Auctioned POMDPs. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3323–3328, 2012.
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  • Jesús Capitán, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Luis Merino. Role-based Cooperation for Environmental Monitoring with Multiple UAVs. In IROS Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring, 2012.
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  • Jesús Capitán, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Luis Merino, and An\'ibal Ollero. Decentralized Multi-Robot Cooperation with Auctioned POMDPs. In Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Domains, 2011. Workshop at AAMAS11
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  • Abdolkarim Pahliani, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pedro U. Lima. Fault-Tolerant Probabilistic Sensor Fusion for Distributed Multi-Agent Systems. In Proc. of International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4812–4817, 2010.
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  • Alberto Sanfeliu, Juan Andrade-Cetto, Marco Barbosa, Richard Bowden, Jesús Capitán, Andreu Corominas, Andrew Gilbert, John Illingworth, Luis Merino, Josep M. Mirats, Plinio Moreno, An\'ibal Ollero, João Sequeira, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Decentralized Sensor Fusion for Ubiquitous Networking Robotics in Urban Areas. Sensors, 10(3):2274–2314, 2010.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Nelson Gonçalves, and João Sequeira. Multirobot Coordination by Auctioning POMDPs. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1446–1451, 2010.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Cooperative Active Perception using POMDPs. In AAAI 2008 Workshop on Advancements in POMDP Solvers, July 2008.
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  • Frans C. A. Groen, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Jelle R. Kok, and Gregor Pavlin. Real World Multi-agent Systems: Information Sharing, Coordination and Planning. In Balder D. ten Cate and Henk W. Zeevat, editors, Logic, Language, and Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4363, pp. 154–165, Springer Verlag, 2007. ISBN: 978-3-540-75143-4
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  • Jelle R. Kok, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Nikos Vlassis. Non-communicative multi-robot coordination in dynamic environments. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 50(2-3):99–114, February 2005.
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  • Jelle R. Kok, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Nikos Vlassis. Multi-robot decision making using coordination graphs. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, pp. 1124–1129, Coimbra, Portugal, 2003.
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  • M. T. J. Spaan and F. C. A. Groen. Team coordination among robotic soccer players. In RoboCup 2002, pp. 409–416, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
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  • M. T. J. Spaan, M. Koutek, B. Terwijn, J. R. Kok, H. E. Bal, M. Boasson, F. C. A. Groen, and N. Vlassis. Coordination, data sharing, and remote visualization of a team of autonomous robots. In Proc. 4th PROGRESS Workshop on Embedded Systems, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, 2003.
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  • F.C.A. Groen, M.T.J. Spaan, and N. Vlassis. Robot Soccer Game or Science. In Proceedings CNR-2002, pp. 92–98, Editura Universitaria Craiova, October 2002. ISBN:973-8043-165-5
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  • Jelle R. Kok, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Nikos Vlassis. An approach to noncommunicative multiagent coordination in continuous domains. In Benelearn 2002: Proceedings of the Twelfth Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning, Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 2002.
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  • M. Spaan, M. Wiering, R. Bartelds, R. Donkervoort, P. Jonker, and F. Groen. Clockwork Orange: The Dutch RoboSoccer Team. In RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V, pp. 627–630, LNCS 2377, Springer-Verlag, 2002.
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  • M. T. J. Spaan, N. Vlassis, and F. C. A. Groen. High level coordination of agents based on multiagent Markov decision processes with roles. In IROS'02 Workshop on Cooperative Robotics, pp. 66–73, October 2002.
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  • M. T. J. Spaan. Team play among soccer robots. Master's Thesis, University of Amsterdam,2002.
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  • Frans C. A. Groen, Jeroen Roodhart, Matthijs Spaan, Raymond Donkervoort, and Nikos Vlassis. A distributed world model for robot soccer that supports the development of team skills. In Proceedings of the 13th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC'01), pp. 389–396, Amsterdam, 2001.
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Decentralized planning under uncertainty

  • Steven Carr, Nils Jansen, Suda Bharadwaj, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Ufuk Topcu. Safe Policies for Factored Partially Observable Stochastic Games. In Robotics: Science and System XVII, 2021.
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  • Frits de Nijs, Erwin Walraven, Mathijs M. de Weerdt, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Constrained Multiagent Markov Decision Processes: a Taxonomy of Problems and Algorithms. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 70:955–1001, 2021.
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  • Frits de Nijs, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. Preallocation and Planning under Stochastic Resource Constraints. In Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 4662–4669, 2018.
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  • Frits de Nijs, Erwin Walraven, Mathijs M. de Weerdt, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Bounding the Probability of Resource Constraint Violations in Multi-Agent MDPs. In Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 3562–3568, 2017.
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Bas Terwijn, Philipp Robbel, and João V. Messias. The MADP Toolbox: An Open Source Library for Planning and Learning in (Multi-)Agent Systems. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 18(89):1–5, 2017.
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  • Frits de Nijs, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. Decoupling a Resource Constraint through Fictitious Play in Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making. In Proc. of European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1724–1725, 2016.
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  • Frits de Nijs, Erwin Walraven, Mathijs M. de Weerdt, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Resource-constrained Multi-agent MDP Planning with Bounded Violation Probability. In NIPS workshop on Learning, Inference and Control of Multi-Agent Systems, 2016.
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  • Joris Scharpff, Diederik M. Roijers, Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. Solving Transition-Independent Multi-agent MDPs with Sparse Interactions. In Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 3174–3180, 2016.
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  • Joris Scharpff, Diederik M. Roijers, Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. Solving Transition-Independent Multi-agent MDPs with Sparse Interactions (Extended version). arXiv:1511.09047, 2016.
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  • Joris Scharpff, Diederik M. Roijers, Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Mathijs de Weerdt. Conditional Return Policy Search for TI-MMDPs with Sparse Interactions. In Proceedings of the 28th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016. Extended abstract
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  • Frits de Nijs, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. Best-Response Planning of Thermostatically Controlled Loads under Power Constraints. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 615–621, 2015.
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  • Frits de Nijs, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. A Challenge for Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Problems: Global Resource Constraints. In Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty, 2015. Workshop at AAMAS15.
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Stefan J. Witwicki. Influence-Optimistic Local Values for Multiagent Planning. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 1703–1704, 2015. Extended abstract.
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Stefan Witwicki. Influence-Optimistic Local Values for Multiagent Planning --- Extended Version. arXiv:1502.05443, 2015.
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Stefan J. Witwicki. Factored Upper Bounds for Multiagent Planning Problems under Uncertainty with Non-Factored Value Functions. In Proc. of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1645–1651, 2015.
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Stefan Witwicki. Influence-Optimistic Local Values for Multiagent Planning. In Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty, 2015. Workshop at AAMAS15.
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Philipp Robbel, and João V. Messias. The MADP Toolbox: An Open-Source Library for Planning and Learning in (Multi-)Agent Systems. In AAAI Fall Symposium on Sequential Decision Making for Intelligent Agents, 2015.
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  • Joris Scharpff, Diederik M. Roijers, Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. Solving Multi-agent MDPs Optimally with Conditional Return Graphs. In Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty, 2015. Workshop at AAMAS15.
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  • Erwin Walraven and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. A Scenario State Representation for Scheduling Deferrable Loads under Wind Uncertainty. In Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty, 2015. Workshop at AAMAS15.
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  • Jesus Capitan, Matthijs Spaan, Luis Merino, and Anibal Ollero. Decentralized Multi-Robot Cooperation with Auctioned POMDPs. In Proc. of Int. Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling, pp. 515–518, 2014. ICAPS Journal track.
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  • Frits de Nijs, Mathijs M. de Weerdt, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Efficient Heuristics for Power Constrained Planning of Thermostatically Controlled Loads. In Proceedings of the 26th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 162–163, 2014. Extended abstract
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  • Frits de Nijs, Mathijs M. de Weerdt, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Efficient Heuristics for Power Constrained Planning of Thermostatically Controlled Loads. In International Workshop on Demand Response (Wattalyst), 2014. Co-located with ACM e-Energy 2014. Also presented at Future Energy Business & Energy Informatics.
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  • Jesús Capitán, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Luis Merino, and An\'ibal Ollero. Decentralized Multi-robot Cooperation with Auctioned POMDPs. International Journal of Robotics Research, 32(6):650–671, 2013.
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  • João V. Messias, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pedro U. Lima. GSMDPs for Multi-Robot Sequential Decision-Making. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1408–1414, 2013.
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  • João V. Messias, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pedro U. Lima. Multiagent POMDPs with Asynchronous Execution. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 1273–1274, 2013. Extended abstract.
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  • João V. Messias, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pedro U. Lima. Asynchronous Execution in Multiagent POMDPs: Reasoning Over Partially-Observable Events. In Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty, 2013. Workshop at AAMAS13.
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Shimon Whiteson, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Approximate Solutions for Factored Dec-POMDPs with Many Agents. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 563–570, 2013.
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Shimon Whiteson, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Approximate Solutions for Factored Dec-POMDPs with Many Agents. In Proceedings of the 25th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 340–341, 2013. Extended abstract
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Christopher Amato, and Shimon Whiteson. Incremental Clustering and Expansion for Faster Optimal Planning in Dec-POMDPs. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 46:449–509, 2013.
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  • Joris Scharpff, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Leentje Volker, and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. Coordinating Maintenance Planning under Uncertainty. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 1405–1406, 2013. Demonstration
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  • Joris Scharpff, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Leentje Volker, and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. Planning under Uncertainty for Coordinating Infrastructural Maintenance. In Proceedings of the 25th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 352–353, 2013. Extended abstract
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  • Joris Scharpff, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Leentje Volker, and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. Planning under Uncertainty for Coordinating Infrastructural Maintenance. In Proc. of Int. Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling, pp. 425–433, 2013.
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  • Joris Scharpff, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Leentje Volker, and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. Coordinating Stochastic Multi-Agent Planning in a Private Values Setting. In Distributed and Multi-Agent Planning, 2013. Workshop at ICAPS.
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  • Joris Scharpff, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Leentje Volker, and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. Planning under Uncertainty for Coordinating Infrastructural Maintenance. In Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty, 2013. Workshop at AAMAS13.
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  • Stefan Witwicki, Francisco S. Melo, Jesús Capitán, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and José Carlos Castillo. Robot Planning under Uncertainty with Unpredictable Events. In Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems, 2013. Workshop at AAMAS 13.
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  • Stefan Witwicki, Francisco S. Melo, Jesús Capitán, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. A Flexible Approach to Modeling Unpredictable Events in MDPs. In Proc. of Int. Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling, pp. 260–268, 2013.
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  • Francisco S. Melo, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Stefan Witwicki. QueryPOMDP: POMDP-based Communication in Multiagent Systems. In Massimo Cossentino, Michael Kaisers, Karl Tuyls, and Gerhard Weiss, editors, Multi-Agent Systems, number 7541 in LNCS, pp. 189–204, Springer, 2012. 9th European Workshop, EUMAS 2011, Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 14-15, 2011. Revised Selected Papers
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  • Francisco S. Melo, Alberto Sardinha, Stefan Witwicki, Laura M. Ramirez-Elizondo, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Decentralized Multiagent Planning for Balance Control in Smart Grids. In Procs. of the 1st Int'l Workshop on Information Technology for Energy Applications (IT4ENERGY'2012), CEUR Workshop Proceedings 923, 2012. ISSN 1613-0073
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  • Francisco S. Melo, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Stefan Witwicki. Exploiting Sparse Interactions for Optimizing Communication in Dec-MDPs. In Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty, 2012. Workshop at AAMAS12
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Tree-based Solution Methods for Multiagent POMDPs with Delayed Communication. In Proc. of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1415–1421, 2012.
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Tree-based Pruning for Multiagent POMDPs with Delayed Communication. In Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty, 2012. Workshop at AAMAS12
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Tree-based Pruning for Multiagent POMDPs with Delayed Communication. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 1229–1230, 2012.
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Shimon Whiteson, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Exploiting Structure in Cooperative Bayesian Games. In Proc. of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 654–664, 2012.
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  • Joris Scharpff, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Mathijs M. de Weerdt. Dynamic Mechanism Design for Efficient Planning under Uncertainty. In Proc. of 24th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 218–225, 2012.
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  • Rajneesh Sharma and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Bayesian Game Based Fuzzy Reinforcement Learning Control for Decentralized POMDPs. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, 4(4):309–328, 2012.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan and Frans A. Oliehoek. Tree-based Solution Methods for Multiagent POMDPs with Delayed Communication. In Proc. of 24th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 319–320, 2012. Extended abstract.
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  • Francisco S. Melo and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. A POMDP-based Model for Optimizing Communication in Multiagent Systems. In European Workshop on Multi-agent Systems, 2011.
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  • João V. Messias, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pedro U. Lima. Exploiting Sparse Dependencies for Communication Reduction in Multiagent Planning under Uncertainty. In Decision Making in Partially Observable, Uncertain Worlds: Exploring Insights from Multiple Communities, 2011. Workshop at IJCAI11
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  • João V. Messias, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pedro U. Lima. Efficient Offline Communication Policies for Factored Multiagent POMDPs. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 1917–1925, 2011.
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Shimon Whiteson, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Exploiting Agent and Type Independence in Collaborative Graphical Bayesian Games. arXiv:1108.0404, 2011.
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  • Rajneesh Sharma and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Fuzzy Reinforcement Learning Control for Decentralized Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes. In Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Fuzzy Systems, 2011.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Frans A. Oliehoek, and Christopher Amato. Scaling Up Optimal Heuristic Search in Dec-POMDPs via Incremental Expansion. In Proc. of 23rd Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 433–434, 2011. Extended abstract.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Frans A. Oliehoek, and Christopher Amato. Scaling Up Optimal Heuristic Search in Dec-POMDPs via Incremental Expansion. In Proc. of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 2027–2032, 2011.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Frans A. Oliehoek, and Christopher Amato. Scaling Up Optimal Heuristic Search in Dec-POMDPs via Incremental Expansion. In Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Domains, 2011. Workshop at AAMAS11
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  • João V. Messias, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pedro U. Lima. Multi-robot planning under uncertainty with communication: a case study. In Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Domains, 2010. Workshop at AAMAS10
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Jilles S. Dibangoye, and Christopher Amato. Heuristic Search for Identical Payoff Bayesian Games. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 1115–1122, 2010.
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  • Rajneesh Sharma and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. A Bayesian Game based Adaptive Fuzzy Controller for Multiagent POMDPs. In Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Fuzzy Systems, pp. 1422–1429, 2010.
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Shimon Whiteson, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Lossless Clustering of Histories in Decentralized POMDPs. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 577–584, May 2009.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Nelson Gonçalves, and João Sequeira. Multiagent Coordination by Auctioning POMDP Tasks. In Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Domains, 2009. Workshop at AAMAS09
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Shimon Whiteson, and Nikos Vlassis. Exploiting Locality of Interaction in Factored Dec-POMDPs. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 517–524, 2008.
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Nikos Vlassis. Optimal and Approximate Q-value Functions for Decentralized POMDPs. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 32:289–353, 2008.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan and Francisco S. Melo. Interaction-Driven Markov Games for Decentralized Multiagent Planning under Uncertainty. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 525–532, 2008.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Frans A. Oliehoek, and Nikos Vlassis. Multiagent Planning under Uncertainty with Stochastic Communication Delays. In Proc. of Int. Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling, pp. 338–345, 2008.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan and Frans A. Oliehoek. The MultiAgent Decision Process toolbox: software for decision-theoretic planning in multiagent systems. In Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Domains, 2008. Workshop at AAMAS08
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Nikos Vlassis. Dec-POMDPs with delayed communication. In Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Domains, 2007. Workshop at AAMAS07
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  • Frans A. Oliehoek, Nikos Vlassis, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Properties of the QBG-value function. Technical Report IAS-UVA-07-03, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, 2007.
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  • Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Nikos Vlassis. Decentralized planning under uncertainty for teams of communicating agents. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 249–256, 2006.
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Smart energy systems

  • Nils H. van der Blij, Pavel Purgat, Thiago B. Soeiro, Laura M. Ramirez-Elizondo, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pavol Bauer. Protection Framework for Low Voltage DC Grids. In Proceedings 2021 IEEE 19th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, pp. 331–337, 2021.
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  • Nils H. van der Blij, Pavel Purgat, Thiago B. Soeiro, Laura M. Ramirez-Elizondo, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pavol Bauer. Decentralized plug-and-play protection scheme for low voltage DC grids. Energies, 13(12):1–21, 2020.
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  • Nils H. van der Blij, Laura M. Ramirez-Elizondo, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pavol Bauer. Grid sense multiple access: A decentralized control algorithm for DC grids. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Elsevier, 2020.
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  • Nils H. van der Blij, Dario Chaifouroosh, Claudio A. Canizares, Thiago B. Soeiro, Laura M. Ramirez-Elizondo, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pavol Bauer. Improved Power Flow Methods for DC Grids. In Proc. IEEE Int. Symposium on Industrial Electronics, pp. 1135–1140, IEEE, 2020.
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  • Frits de Nijs, Mathijs M. de Weerdt, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Multi-agent Planning Under Uncertainty for Capacity Management. In Peter Palensky, Milo\vs Cvetkovi\'c, and Tamás Keviczky, editors, Intelligent Integrated Energy Systems: The PowerWeb Program at TU Delft, pp. 197–213, Springer International Publishing, 2019.
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  • Nils H. van der Blij, Laura M. Ramirez-Elizondo, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pavol Bauer. A State-Space Approach to Modelling DC Distribution Systems. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 33:943–950, 2018.
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  • Nils H. van der Blij, Laura M. Ramirez-Elizondo, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pavol Bauer. Symmetrical Component Decomposition of DC Distribution Systems. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 33:2733–2741, 2018.
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  • Nils H. van der Blij, Laura M. Ramirez-Elizondo, Matthijs T.J . Spaan, and Pavol Bauer. Stability and Decentralized Control of Plug-and-Play DC Distribution Grids. IEEE Access, 6:63726–63736, 2018.
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  • Nils H. van der Blij, Laura M. Ramirez-Elizondo, Pavol Bauer, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Design Guidelines for Stable DC Distribution Systems. In IEEE Int. Conf. on DC Microgrids, 2017.
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  • Nils H. van der Blij, Laura M. Ramirez-Elizondo, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Pavol Bauer. Stability of DC Distribution Systems: An Algebraic Derivation. Energies, 10(9), 2017.
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Fleet management

  • Johan Los, Frederik Schulte, Margaretha Gansterer, Richard F. Hartl, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Rudy R. Negenborn. Large-scale collaborative vehicle routing. Annals of Operations Research, Springer, 2022.
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  • Johan Los, Frederik Schulte, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Rudy R. Negenborn. An Auction-Based Multi-Agent System for the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Autonomous Vehicles and Alternative Locations. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics, pp. 244–260, 2022.
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  • Johan Los, Frederik Schulte, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Rudy R. Negenborn. Strategic Bidding in Decentralized Collaborative Vehicle Routing. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics, pp. 261–274, 2022.
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  • Johan Los, Frederik Schulte, Margaretha Gansterer, Richard F. Hartl, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Rudy R. Negenborn. Decentralized Combinatorial Auctions for Dynamic and Large-Scale Collaborative Vehicle Routing. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Computational Logistics, pp. 215–230, Springer, 2020.
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  • Johan Los, Frederik Schulte, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Rudy R. Negenborn. Collaborative Vehicle Routing when Agents have Mixed Information Sharing Attitudes. Transportation Research Procedia, 44:94–101, Elsevier, 2020.
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  • Johan Los, Frederik Schulte, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Rudy R. Negenborn. The value of information sharing for platform-based collaborative vehicle routing. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 141, 2020.
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  • Johan Los, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Rudy R. Negenborn. Fleet Management for Pickup and Delivery Problems with Multiple Locations and Preferences. In International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics, pp. 86–94, 2018.
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Reinforcement learning

  • Davide Mambelli, Stephan Bongers, Onno Zoeter, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Frans A. Oliehoek. When Do Off-Policy and On-Policy Policy Gradient Methods Align?. arXiv:2402.12034, 2024.
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  • Pascal R. Van der Vaart, Neil Yorke-Smith, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Bayesian Ensembles for Exploration in Deep Reinforcement Learning. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, 2024. Extended abstract
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  • Moritz A. Zanger, Wendelin Böhmer, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Diverse Projection Ensembles for Distributional Reinforcement Learning. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Learning Representations, 2024.
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  • Alberto Castellini, Federico Bianchi, Edoardo Zorzi, Thiago D. Simão, Alessandro Farinelli, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Scalable Safe Policy Improvement via Monte Carlo Tree Search. In International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 3732–3756, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 202, 2023.
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  • Yaniv Oren, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Wendelin Böhmer. E-MCTS: Deep Exploration in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning by Planning with Epistemic Uncertainty. In European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning, 2023.
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  • Miguel Suau, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Frans A. Oliehoek. Bad Habits: Policy Confounding and Out-of-Trajectory Generalization in RL. In European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning, 2023.
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  • Pascal Van der Vaart, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Neil Yorke-Smith. Bayesian Deep Q-Learning via Sequential Monte Carlo. In European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning, 2023.
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  • Max Weltevrede, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Wendelin Böhmer. The Role of Diverse Replay for Generalisation in Reinforcement Learning. arXiv:2306.05727, 2023.
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  • Qisong Yang, Thiago D. Simão, Simon H. Tindemans, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Safety-Constrained Reinforcement Learning with a Distributional Safety Critic. Machine Learning, 112(3):859–887, Springer, 2023.
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  • Qisong Yang and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. CEM: Constrained Entropy Maximization for Task-Agnostic Safe Exploration. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 10798–10806, 2023.
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  • Qisong Yang, Thiago D. Simão, Nils Jansen, Simon H. Tindemans, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Reinforcement Learning by Guided Safe Exploration. arXiv:2307.14316, 2023.
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  • Moritz A. Zanger, Wendelin Böhmer, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Diverse Projection Ensembles for Distributional Reinforcement Learning. arXiv:2306.07124, 2023.
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  • Danial Kamran, Thiago D. Simão, Qisong Yang, Canmanie T. Ponnambalam, Johannes Fischer, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Martin Lauer. A Modern Perspective on Safe Automated Driving for Different Traffic Dynamics using Constrained Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp. 4017–4023, 2022.
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  • Canmanie Ponnambalam, Danial Kamran, Thiago D. Simão, Frans A. Oliehoek, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Back to the Future: Solving Hidden Parameter MDPs with Hindsight. In Adaptive and Learning Agents, 2022. Workshop at AAMAS22
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  • Miguel Suau, Jinke He, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Frans A. Oliehoek. Speeding up Deep Reinforcement Learning through Influence-Augmented Local Simulators. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 1735–1737, 2022.
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  • Miguel Suau, Jinke He, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Frans A. Oliehoek. Influence-Augmented Local Simulators: A Scalable Solution for Fast Deep RL in Large Networked Systems. arXiv:2202.01534, 2022.
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  • Miguel Suau, Jinke He, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Frans A. Oliehoek. Influence-Augmented Local Simulators: A Scalable Solution for Fast Deep RL in Large Networked Systems. In International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 20604–20624, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 162, 2022.
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  • Miguel Suau, Jinke He, Mustafa Mert Çelikok, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Frans A. Oliehoek. Distributed Influence-Augmented Local Simulators for Parallel MARL in Large Networked Systems. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 28305–28318, 2022.
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  • Qisong Yang, Thiago D. Simão, Nils Jansen, Simon H. Tindemans, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Training and Transferring Safe Policies in Reinforcement Learning. In Adaptive and Learning Agents, 2022. Workshop at AAMAS22
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  • Qisong Yang, Thiago D. Simão, Simon H. Tindemans, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Refined Risk Management in Safe Reinforcement Learning with a Distributional Safety Critic. In Safe Reinforcement Learning, 2022. Workshop at IJCAI22
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  • Canmanie T. Ponnambalam, Frans A. Oliehoek, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Abstraction-Guided Policy Recovery from Expert Demonstrations. In Proc. of Int. Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling, pp. 560–568, 2021.
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  • Thiago D. Simão, Nils Jansen, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. AlwaysSafe: Reinforcement Learning without Safety Constraint Violations during Training. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 1226–1235, 2021.
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  • Jordi Smit, Canmanie Ponnambalam, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, and Frans A. Oliehoek. PEBL: Pessimistic Ensembles for Offline Deep Reinforcement Learning. In Robust and Reliable Autonomy in the Wild, 2021. Workshop at IJCAI-21
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  • Qisong Yang, Thiago D. Simão, Simon H. Tindemans, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. WCSAC: Worst-Case Soft Actor Critic for Safety-Constrained Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 10639–10646, 2021.
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  • Grigory Neustroev, Canmanie T. Ponnambalam, Mathijs M. de Weerdt, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Interval Q-Learning: Balancing Deep and Wide Exploration. In Adaptive and Learning Agents, 2020. Workshop at AAMAS20
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  • Canmanie T. Ponnambalam, Frans A. Oliehoek, and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Abstraction-Guided Policy Recovery from Expert Demonstrations. In Offline Reinforcement Learning Workshop at Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020.
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  • Thiago D. Simão and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Safe Policy Improvement with Baseline Bootstrapping in Factored Environments. In Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 4967–4974, 2019.
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  • Thiago D. Simão and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. Structure Learning for Safe Policy Improvement. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 3453–3459, 2019.
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  • Thiago D. Simão and Matthijs T. J. Spaan. An Empirical Evaluation of Safe Policy Improvement in Factored Environments. In ICML/IJCAI/AAMAS 2018 Workshop on Planning and Learning, 2018.
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Unspecified

  • Katia Sycara, Vasant Honavar, and Matthijs Spaan, editors. Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2022.
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  • Mathijs de Weerdt, Sven Koenig, Gabriele Röger, and Matthijs Spaan, editors. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, AAAI Press, 2018.
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  • Nisar Ahmed, Paul Bello, Selmer Bringsjord, Micah Clark, Bradley Hayes, Andrey Kolobov, Christopher Miller, Frans Oliehoek, Frank Stein, and Matthijs Spaan. The 2015 AAAI Fall Symposium Series Reports. AI Magazine, Summer:85–90, 2016.
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