Peter Stone's Selected Publications

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2008

• Mazda Ahmadi and Peter Stone. Instance-Based Action Models for Fast Action Planning. In Ubbo Visser, Fernando Ribeiro, Takeshi Ohashi, and Frank Dellaert, editors, RoboCup-2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2008. To appear.
  BEST PAPER AWARD WINNER at RoboCup International Symposium.
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• Patrick Beeson, Jack O\'Quin, Bartley Gillan, Tarun Nimmagadda, Mickey Ristroph, David Li, and Peter Stone. Multiagent Interactions in Urban Driving. Journal of Physical Agents, 2(1):15–30, March 2008. Special issue on Multi-Robot Systems
  JoPhA
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• Doran Chakraborty and Peter Stone. Online Multiagent Learning against Memory Bounded Adversaries. In European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, September 2008.
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• Kurt Dresner and Peter Stone. A Multiagent Approach to Autonomous Intersection Management. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 31:591–656, March 2008.
  Available from journal's web page.
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• Kurt Dresner and Peter Stone. Mitigating Catastrophic Failure at Intersections of Autonomous Vehicles. In ATT08, pp. 78–85, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.
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• Ian Fasel, Michael Quinlan, and Peter Stone. A General Purpose Task Specification Language for Bootstrap Learning. Technical Report AI-08-1, The University of Texas at Austin, Department ofComputer Sciences, AI Laboratory, 2008.
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• Uli Grasemann, Daniel Stronger, and Peter Stone. A Neural Network-Based Approach to Robot Motion Control. In Ubbo Visser, Fernando Ribeiro, Takeshi Ohashi, and Frank Dellaert, editors, RoboCup-2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2008.
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• Todd Hester and Peter Stone. Negative Information and Line Observations for Monte Carlo Localization. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2008.
  ICRA 2008
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• Nicholas K. Jong and Peter Stone. Hierarchical Model-Based Reinforcement Learning: \textscR-max + MAXQ. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2008.
  ICML 2008
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• Nicholas K. Jong, Todd Hester, and Peter Stone. The Utility of Temporal Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning. In The Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2008.
  AAMAS-2008
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• Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Peter Stone, and Yaxin Liu. Model-based Reinforcement Learning in a Complex Domain. In Ubbo Visser, Fernando Ribeiro, Takeshi Ohashi, and Frank Dellaert, editors, RoboCup-2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2008. To appear.
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• W. Bradley Knox, Juhyun Lee, and Peter Stone. Domestic Interaction on a Segway Base. In Luca Iocchi, Hitoshi Matsubara, Alfredo Weitzenfeld, and Changjiu Zhou, editors, RoboCup-2008: Robot Soccer World Cup XII, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2008.
  Official version from Publisher's Webpage© Springer-Verlag
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• W. Bradley Knox and Peter Stone. TAMER: Training an Agent Manually via Evaluative Reinforcement. In IEEE 7th International Conference on Development and Learning, August 2008.
  ICDL-2008
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• Juhyun Lee and Peter Stone. Person Tracking on a Mobile Robot with Heterogeneous Inter-Characteristic Feedback. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2008.
  ICRA 2008
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• Joseph Reisinger, Peter Stone, and Risto Miikkulainen. Online Kernel Selection for Bayesian Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2008.
  ICML 2008
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• Daniel Stronger and Peter Stone. Polynomial Regression with Automated Degree: A Function Approximator for Autonomous Agents. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 17(1):159–174, February 2008.
  official published version
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• Daniel Stronger and Peter Stone. Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Sensor and Action Model Functions on a Mobile Robot. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2008.
  ICRA 2008
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• Matthew E. Taylor, Nicholas K. Jong, and Peter Stone. Transferring Instances for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Pratice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), September 2008.
  ECML-2008
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• Matthew E. Taylor, Gregory Kuhlmann, and Peter Stone. Autonomous Transfer for Reinforcement Learning. In The Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2008.
  AAMAS-2008
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• Matthew E. Taylor, Gregory Kuhlmann, and Peter Stone. Transfer Learning and Intelligence: an Argument and Approach. In Proceedings of the First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, March 2008.
  AGI-2008
  Google video version of the conference presentation.
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• Mark VanMiddlesworth, Kurt Dresner, and Peter Stone. Replacing the Stop Sign: Unmanaged Intersection Control for Autonomous Vehicles. In ATT08, pp. 94–101, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.
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2007

• Mazda Ahmadi, Matthew E. Taylor, and Peter Stone. IFSA: Incremental Feature-Set Augmentation for Reinforcement Learning Tasks. In The Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2007.
  AAMAS-2007
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• Bikramjit Banerjee and Peter Stone. General Game Learning using Knowledge Transfer. In The 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 672–677, January 2007.
  IJCAI-07
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• Kurt Dresner and Peter Stone. Sharing the Road: Autonomous Vehicles meet Human Drivers. In The 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1263–68, January 2007.
  IJCAI-07
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• Kurt Dresner and Peter Stone. Learning Policy Selection for Autonomous Intersection Management. In AAMAS 2007 Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents, pp. 34–39, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 2007.
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• Peggy Fidelman and Peter Stone. The Chin Pinch: A Case Study in Skill Learning on a Legged Robot. In Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico Sorenti, and Tomoichi Takahashi, editors, RoboCup-2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, pp. 59–71, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2007.
  Some videos referenced in the paper.
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• Nicholas K. Jong and Peter Stone. Model-Based Function Approximation for Reinforcement Learning. In The Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2007.
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• Nicholas K. Jong and Peter Stone. Model-Based Exploration in Continuous State Spaces. In The Seventh Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation, July 2007.
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• Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Yaxin Liu, and Peter Stone. Half Field Offense in RoboCup Soccer: A Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Case Study. In Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico Sorenti, and Tomoichi Takahashi, editors, RoboCup-2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, pp. 72–85, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2007.
  BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD WINNER at RoboCup International Symposium.
  Some simulations referenced in the paper.
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• Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Peter Stone. Batch Reinforcement Learning in a Complex Domain. In The Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2007.
  AAMAS-2007
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• Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Peter Stone. The UT Austin Villa 3D Simulation Soccer Team 2007. Technical Report AI-07-348, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory, 2007.
  Supplementary resources at the UT Austin Villa 3D Simulation page.
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• Gregory Kuhlmann and Peter Stone. Graph-Based Domain Mapping for Transfer Learning in General Games. In Proceedings of The Eighteenth European Conference on Machine Learning, September 2007.
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• David Pardoe and Peter Stone. An Autonomous Agent for Supply Chain Management. In Gedas Adomavicius and Alok Gupta, editors, Handbooks in Information Systems Series: Business Computing, Elsevier, 2007.
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• David Pardoe and Peter Stone. Adapting Price Predictions in TAC SCM. In AAMAS 2007 Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, 2007.
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• Manish Saggar, Thomas D'Silva, Nate Kohl, and Peter Stone. Autonomous Learning of Stable Quadruped Locomotion. In Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico Sorenti, and Tomoichi Takahashi, editors, RoboCup-2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, pp. 98–109, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2007.
  BEST PAPER AWARD NOMINATION at RoboCup International Symposium.
  Some videos referenced in the paper.
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• Mohan Sridharan and Peter Stone. Structure Based Color Learning on a Mobile Robot under Changing Illumination. Autonomous Robots, 23(3):161–182, 2007.
  Official versionfrom the Autonomous Robots publisher's webpage.
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• Mohan Sridharan and Peter Stone. Planning Actions to Enable Color Learning on a Mobile Robot. International Journal of Information and Systems Sciences, 3(3):510–25, 2007.
  official published version
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• Mohan Sridharan and Peter Stone. Action Selection for Illumination Invariant Color Learning. In The IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2007. To Appear.
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• Mohan Sridharan and Peter Stone. Color Learning on a Mobile Robot: Towards Full Autonomy under Changing Illumination. In The 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 2212–2217, January 2007.
  IJCAI-07
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• Peter Stone. Intelligent Autonomous Robotics: A Robot Soccer Case Study, Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Morgan \& Claypool Publishers, 2007.
  Available from Synthesis page.
  ISBN: 9781598291262
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• Peter Stone. Multiagent learning is not the answer. It is the question. Artificial Intelligence, 171:402–05, May 2007.
  Response to Shoham, Powers, and Grenager If Multi-Agent Systems is the Answer, What is the Question?, available from Shoham's webpage.
  Official version from the AIJ publisher's webpage.
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• Peter Stone. Learning and Multiagent Reasoning for Autonomous Agents. In The 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 13–30, January 2007.
  IJCAI-07
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• Peter Stone, Patrick Beeson, Tekin Mericli, and Ryan Madigan. DARPA Urban Challenge Technical Report: Austin Robot Technology. June 2007. Available from http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/rules.asp
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• Daniel Stronger and Peter Stone. Selective Visual Attention for Object Detection on a Legged Robot. In Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico Sorenti, and Tomoichi Takahashi, editors, RoboCup-2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, pp. 158–170, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2007.
  Some videos referenced in the paper.
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• Daniel Stronger and Peter Stone. A Comparison of Two Approaches for Vision and Self-Localization on a Mobile Robot. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3915–3920, April 2007.
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• Matthew E. Taylor, Peter Stone, and Yaxin Liu. Transfer Learning via Inter-Task Mappings for Temporal Difference Learning. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 8(1):2125–2167, 2007.
  Available from journal's web page.
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• Matthew E. Taylor, Shimon Whiteson, and Peter Stone. Temporal Difference and Policy Search Methods for Reinforcement Learning: An Empirical Comparison. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1675–1678, July 2007. Nectar Track
  AAAI 2007
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• Matthew E. Taylor and Peter Stone. Cross-Domain Transfer for Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Machine Learning, June 2007.
  ICML 2007
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• Matthew E. Taylor, Shimon Whiteson, and Peter Stone. Transfer via Inter-Task Mappings in Policy Search Reinforcement Learning. In The Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2007.
  AAMAS-2007
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• Matthew E. Taylor and Peter Stone. Representation Transfer for Reinforcement Learning. In AAAI 2007 Fall Symposium on Computational Approaches to Representation Change during Learning and Development, November 2007.
  2007 AAAI Fall Symposium: Computational Approaches to Representation Change during Learning and Development
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• Matthew E. Taylor, Gregory Kuhlmann, and Peter Stone. Accelerating Search with Transferred Heuristics. In ICAPS-07 workshop on AI Planning and Learning, September 2007.
  ICAPS 2007 workshop on AI Planning and Learning
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• Michael P. Wellman, Amy Greenwald, and Peter Stone. Autonomous Bidding Agents: Strategies and Lessons from the Trading Agent Competition, MIT Press, 2007.
  Available from MIT Press page.
  ISBN: 0-262-23260-X
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• Shimon Whiteson, Matthew E. Taylor, and Peter Stone. Empirical Studies in Action Selection for Reinforcement Learning. Adaptive Behavior, 15(1):33–50, March 2007.
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• Shimon Whiteson, Matthew E. Taylor, and Peter Stone. Adaptive Tile Coding for Value Function Approximation. Technical Report AI-TR-07-339, University of Texas at Austin, 2007.
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• Jonathan Wildstrom, Peter Stone, Emmett Witchel, and Mike Dahlin. Machine Learning for On-Line Hardware Reconfiguration. In The 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1113–1118, January 2007.
  IJCAI-07
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• Jonathan Wildstrom, Peter Stone, and Emmett Witchel. Autonomous Return on Investment Analysis of Additional Processing Resources. In 2007 Workshop on Adaptive Methods in Autonomic Computing Systems, June 2007.
  AMACS-07
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2006

• Mazda Ahmadi and Peter Stone. Keeping in Touch: Maintaining Biconnected Structure by Homogeneous Robots. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 580–85, July 2006.
  AAAI 2006. Additional details on the distributed "biconnected check" can be found in Keeping in Touch: A Distributed Check for Biconnected Structure by Homogeneous Robots in the 2006 International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2006).
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• Mazda Ahmadi and Peter Stone. A Multi-Robot System for Continuous Area Sweeping Tasks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1724–1729, May 2006.
  Some videos of the robot referenced in the paper.
  ICRA 2006
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• Bikramjit Banerjee, Gregory Kuhlmann, and Peter Stone. Value Function Transfer for General Game Playing. In ICML workshop on Structural Knowledge Transfer for Machine Learning, June 2006.
  ICML 2006 workshop on Structural Knowledge Transfer for Machine Learning
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• Kurt Dresner and Peter Stone. Multiagent Traffic Management: Opportunities for Multiagent Learning. In K. Tuyls et al., editors, LAMAS 2005, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 129–138, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
  LAMAS-05.
  Official version from Publisher's Webpage© Springer-Verlag
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• Kurt Dresner and Peter Stone. Human-Usable and Emergency Vehicle-Aware Control Policies for Autonomous Intersection Management. In AAMAS 2006 Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation, May 2006.
  ATT 2006.
  The project page with videos from the paper.
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• Charles Lee Isbell, Jr., Michael Kearns, Satinder Singh, Christian Shelton, Peter Stone, and Dave Kormann. Cobot in LambdaMOO: An Adaptive Social Statistics Agent. Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 13(3), November 2006.
  Official version from publisher's website.
  Contains material that was previously published in an Agents-2001 paper that won the BEST PAPER AWARD. JAAMAS
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• Gregory Kuhlmann, Kurt Dresner, and Peter Stone. Automatic Heuristic Construction in a Complete General Game Player. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1457–62, July 2006.
  AAAI 2006
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• Gregory Kuhlmann, William B. Knox, and Peter Stone. Know Thine Enemy: A Champion RoboCup Coach Agent. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1463–68, July 2006.
  AAAI 2006
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• Yaxin Liu and Peter Stone. Value-Function-Based Transfer for Reinforcement Learning Using Structure Mapping. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 415–20, July 2006.
  AAAI 2006
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• David Pardoe, Peter Stone, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky, and Kerem Tomak. Adaptive Mechanism Design: A Metalearning Approach. In The Eighth International Conference on Electronic Commerce, pp. 92–102, August 2006.
  ICEC 2006. Contains material from Adaptive Auctions: Learning to Adjust to Bidders, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), 2005.
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• David Pardoe and Peter Stone. TacTex-2005: A Champion Supply Chain Management Agent. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1489–94, July 2006.
  AAAI 2006
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• David Pardoe and Peter Stone. Predictive Planning for Supply Chain Management. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, June 2006.
  ICAPS 2006
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• Mohan Sridharan and Peter Stone. Autonomous Planned Color Learning on a Mobile Robot Without Labeled Data. In The Ninth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, December 2006.
  ICARCV 2006
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• Peter Stone and Gerhard Weiss, editors. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), May 2006.
  A book based on AAMAS 2006
  ISBN: 1-59593-303-4
  on-line version from ACM.
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• Peter Stone, Mohan Sridharan, Daniel Stronger, Gregory Kuhlmann, Nate Kohl, Peggy Fidelman, and Nicholas K. Jong. From Pixels to Multi-Robot Decision-Making: A Study in Uncertainty. Robotics and Autonomous Systems , 54(11):933–43, November 2006. Special issue on Planning Under Uncertainty in Robotics.
  Official versionfrom the RAS publisher's webpage.
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• Peter Stone, Gregory Kuhlmann, Matthew E. Taylor, and Yaxin Liu. Keepaway Soccer: From Machine Learning Testbed to Benchmark. In Itsuki Noda, Adam Jacoff, Ansgar Bredenfeld, and Yasutake Takahashi, editors, RoboCup-2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX, pp. 93–105, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
  Some simulations of keepaway referenced in the paper and keepaway software.
  Official version from Publisher's Webpage© Springer-Verlag
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• Peter Stone, Peggy Fidelman, Nate Kohl, Gregory Kuhlmann, Tekin Mericli, Mohan Sridharan, and Shao-en Yu. The UT Austin Villa 2006 RoboCup Four-Legged Team. Technical Report UT-AI-TR-06-337, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory, 2006.
  At http://www.cs.utexas.edu/ftp/pub/AI-Lab/index/html/Abstracts.2006.html#06-337
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• Daniel Stronger and Peter Stone. Towards Autonomous Sensor and Actuator Model Induction on a Mobile Robot. Connection Science, 18(2):97–119, 2006. Special Issue on Developmental Robotics.
  Connection Science Journal. Contains material that was previously published in an ICRA-2005 paper.
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• Harish Subramanian, Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Peter Stone, and Ben Kuipers. Designing Safe, Profitable Automated Stock Trading Agents Using Evolutionary Algorithms. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July 2006.
  GECCO 2006
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• Matthew Taylor, Shimon Whiteson, and Peter Stone. Comparing Evolutionary and Temporal Difference Methods for Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pp. 1321–28, July 2006.
  BEST PAPER AWARD at GECCO 2006
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• Shimon Whiteson and Peter Stone. Evolutionary Function Approximation for Reinforcement Learning. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 7:877–917, May 2006.
  Available from journal's web page.
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• Shimon Whiteson and Peter Stone. Sample-Efficient Evolutionary Function Approximation for Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 518–23, July 2006.
  AAAI 2006
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• Shimon Whiteson and Peter Stone. On-Line Evolutionary Computation for Reinforcement Learning in Stochastic Domains. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pp. 1577–84, July 2006.
  GECCO 2006
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• Jonathan Wildstrom, Peter Stone, Emmett Witchel, and Mike Dahlin. Adapting to Workload Changes Through On-The-Fly Reconfiguration. Technical Report UT-AI-TR-06-330, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory, 2006.
  At http://www.cs.utexas.edu/ftp/pub/AI-Lab/index/html/Abstracts.2006.html#06-330
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2005

• Mazda Ahmadi and Peter Stone. Continuous Area Sweeping: A Task Definition and Initial Approach. In The 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, July 2005.
  Some videos of the robot referenced in the paper.
  ICAR 2005
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• Kurt Dresner and Peter Stone. Multiagent Traffic Management: An Improved Intersection Control Mechanism. In The Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, ACM Press, New York, NY, July 2005.
  Some videos referenced in the paper. The main project page
  Extended version citable as University of Texas at Austin AI lab technical report number UT-AI-TR-04-315
  AAMAS-2005
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• Nicholas K. Jong and Peter Stone. State Abstraction Discovery from Irrelevant State Variables. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 752–757, August 2005.
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• Nicholas K. Jong and Peter Stone. Bayesian Models of Nonstationary Markov Decision Problems. In IJCAI 2005 workshop on Planning and Learning in A Priori Unknown or Dynamic Domains, August 2005.
  Workshop webpage.
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• Gregory Kuhlmann, Peter Stone, and Justin Lallinger. The UT Austin Villa 2003 Champion Simulator Coach: A Machine Learning Approach. In Daniele Nardi, Martin Riedmiller, and Claude Sammut, editors, RoboCup-2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 636–644, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2005.
  Official version from Publisher's Webpage© Springer-Verlag
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• Michael L. Littman and Peter Stone. A Polynomial-time Nash Equilibrium Algorithm for Repeated Games. Decision Support Systems, 39:55–66 , 2005.
  An earlier version appeared in the proceedings of the fourth annual ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce
  Official version from Decision Support Systems
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• David Pardoe and Peter Stone. Developing Adaptive Auction Mechanisms. SIGecom Exchanges, 5(3):1–10, April 2005.
  SIGecom Exchanges
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• David Pardoe and Peter Stone. Bidding for Customer Orders in TAC SCM. In P. Faratin and J.A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, editors, Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce VI: Theories for and Engineering of Distributed Mechanisms and Systems (AMEC 2004), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 143–157, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2005.
  Official version from Publisher's Webpage© Springer-Verlag
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• Alexander Sherstov and Peter Stone. Three Automated Stock-Trading Agents: A Comparative Study. In P. Faratin and J.A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, editors, Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce VI: Theories for and Engineering of Distributed Mechanisms and Systems (AMEC 2004), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 173–187, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2005.
  Official version from Publisher's Webpage© Springer-Verlag
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• Alexander A. Sherstov and Peter Stone. Function Approximation via Tile Coding: Automating Parameter Choice. In J.-D. Zucker and I. Saitta, editors, SARA 2005, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 194–205, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2005.
  SARA-05.
  Official version from Publisher's Webpage© Springer-Verlag
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• Alexander A. Sherstov and Peter Stone. Improving Action Selection in MDP's via Knowledge Transfer. In Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2005.
  AAAI 2005
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• Mohan Sridharan and Peter Stone. Towards Illumination Invariance in the Legged League. In Daniele Nardi, Martin Riedmiller, and Claude Sammut, editors, RoboCup-2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 196–208, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2005.
  Some videos of robots referenced in the paper.
  Official version from Publisher's Webpage© Springer-Verlag
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• Mohan Sridharan and Peter Stone. Autonomous Color Learning on a Mobile Robot. In Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2005.
  Some videos of the robot referenced in the paper.
  AAAI 2005
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• Mohan Sridharan and Peter Stone. Real-Time Vision on a Mobile Robot Platform. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, August 2005.
  Some videos of the robot referenced in the paper.
  IROS-2005
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• Mohan Sridharan, Gregory Kuhlmann, and Peter Stone. Practical Vision-Based Monte Carlo Localization on a Legged Robot. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 2005.
  ICRA 2005
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• Peter Stone, Richard S. Sutton, and Gregory Kuhlmann. Reinforcement Learning for RoboCup-Soccer Keepaway. Adaptive Behavior, 13(3):165–188, 2005.
  Contains material that was previously published in an ICML-2001 paper and a RoboCup 2003 Symposium paper.
  Some simulations of keepaway referenced in the paper and keepaway software.
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• Peter Stone and Amy Greenwald. The First International Trading Agent Competition: Autonomous Bidding Agents. Electronic Commerce Research, 5(2):229–65, April 2005.
  Official version from publisher's website © Springer-Verlag
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• Peter Stone, Kurt Dresner, Peggy Fidelman, Nate Kohl, Gregory Kuhlmann, Mohan Sridharan, and Daniel Stronger. The UT Austin Villa 2005 RoboCup Four-Legged Team. Technical Report UT-AI-TR-05-325, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory, 2005.
  At http://www.cs.utexas.edu/ftp/pub/AI-Lab/index/html/Abstracts.2005.html#05-325
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• Daniel Stronger and Peter Stone. A Model-Based Approach to Robot Joint Control. In Daniele Nardi, Martin Riedmiller, and Claude Sammut, editors, RoboCup-2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 297–309, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2005.
  Official version from Publisher's Webpage© Springer-Verlag
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• Matthew E. Taylor, Peter Stone, and Yaxin Liu. Value Functions for RL-Based Behavior Transfer: A Comparative Study. In Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2005.
  AAAI 2005
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• Matthew E. Taylor and Peter Stone. Behavior Transfer for Value-Function-Based Reinforcement Learning. In The Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 53–59, ACM Press, New York, NY, July 2005.
  AAMAS-2005
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• Shimon Whiteson, Nate Kohl, Risto Miikkulainen, and Peter Stone. Evolving Keepaway Soccer Players through Task Decomposition. Machine Learning, 59(1):5–30, May 2005.
  Some videos of the agents before and after learning referenced in the paper.
  The publisher's official version
  An earlier version appeared in the proceedings of The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2003 (GECCO-2003)
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• Shimon Whiteson, Peter Stone, Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen, and Nate Kohl. Automatic Feature Selection via Neuroevolution. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, June 2005.
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• Jonathan Wildstrom, Peter Stone, Emmett Witchel, Raymond J. Mooney, and Mike Dahlin. Towards Self-Configuring Hardware for Distributed Computer Systems. In The Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing, pp. 241–249, June 2005.
  ICAC-05
  A revised version of the paper appeared on IBM's Developer Works website
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2004

• Kurt Dresner and Peter Stone. Multiagent Traffic Management: A Reservation-Based Intersection Control Mechanism. In The Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 530–537, July 2004.
  Some simulations of cars driving through intersections referenced in the paper. The main project page
  AAMAS-2004
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• Yi Feng, Ronggang Yu, and Peter Stone. Two Stock-Trading Agents: Market Making and Technical Analysis. In Peyman Faratin, David C. Parkes, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, and William E. Walsh, editors, Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce V: Designing Mechanisms and Systems, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 18–36, Springer Verlag, 2004.
  AMEC-2003
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• Nicholas K. Jong and Peter Stone. Towards Employing PSRs in a Continuous Domain. Technical Report UT-AI-TR-04-309, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory, 2004.
  UTAustin AI Lab technical reports
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• Nate Kohl and Peter Stone. Machine Learning for Fast Quadrupedal Locomotion. In The Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 611–616, July 2004.
  Some videos of walking robots referenced in the paper.
  AAAI 2004
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• Nate Kohl and Peter Stone. Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning for Fast Quadrupedal Locomotion. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2004.
  Some videos of walking robots referenced in the paper.
  ICRA 2004
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• Gregory Kuhlmann, Peter Stone, Raymond Mooney, and Jude Shavlik. Guiding a Reinforcement Learner with Natural Language Advice: Initial Results in RoboCup Soccer. In The AAAI-2004 Workshop on Supervisory Control of Learning and Adaptive Systems, July 2004.
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• David Pardoe and Peter Stone. TacTex-03: A Supply Chain Management Agent. SIGecom Exchanges: Special Issue on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, 4(3):19–28, Winter 2004.
  SIGecom Exchanges
  Extended version citable as University of Texas at Austin AI lab technical report number UT-AI-TR-04-308.
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• Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, and Peter Stone. Using RoboCup in university-level computer science education. Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 4(2), June 2004. Special issue on robotics in undergraduate education. Part 1
  Available from the publisher's webpage
  JERIC
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• Peter Stone. RoboCup as an Introduction to CS Research. In Daniel Polani, Brett Browning, Andrea Bonarini, and Kazuo Yoshida, editors, RoboCup-2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 284–95, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2004.
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• Peter Stone, Kurt Dresner, Peggy Fidelman, Nicholas K. Jong, Nate Kohl, Gregory Kuhlmann, Mohan Sridharan, and Daniel Stronger. The UT Austin Villa 2004 RoboCup Four-Legged Team: Coming of Age. Technical Report UT-AI-TR-04-313, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory, 2004.
  At http://www.cs.utexas.edu/ftp/pub/AI-Lab/index/html/Abstracts.2004.html#04-313
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• Peter Stone, Kurt Dresner, Selim T. Erdo\ugan, Peggy Fidelman, Nicholas K. Jong, Nate Kohl, Gregory Kuhlmann, Ellie Lin, Mohan Sridharan, Daniel Stronger, and Gurushyam Hariharan. The UT Austin Villa 2003 Four-Legged Team. In Daniel Polani, Brett Browning, Andrea Bonarini, and Kazuo Yoshida, editors, RoboCup-2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2004.
  Extended version (technical report with full details: "UT Austin Villa 2003: A New RoboCup Four-Legged Team").
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• Shimon Whiteson and Peter Stone. Adaptive Job Routing and Scheduling. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 17(7):855–69, October 2004. Special issue on Autonomic Computing and Automation
  Available from the publisher's webpage
  The version from this page corrects a minor error in the published version.
  An earlier version appeared in the proceedings of The Sixteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI 2004)
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2003

• Amy Greenwald, Nicholas R. Jennings, and Peter Stone. Guest Editors' Introduction: Agents and Markets. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 18(6):12–14, November/December 2003.
  IEEEIntelligent Systems special issue on agents and markets.
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• Itsuki Noda and Peter Stone. The RoboCup Soccer Server and CMUnited Clients: Implemented Infrastructure for MAS Research. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 7(1--2):101–120, July--September 2003.
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• Satinder Singh, Michael L. Littman, Nicholas K. Jong, David Pardoe, and Peter Stone. Learning Predictive State Representations. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning, August 2003.
  ICML-2003
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• Peter Stone, Robert E. Schapire, Michael L. Littman, János A. Csirik, and David McAllester. Decision-Theoretic Bidding Based on Learned Density Models in Simultaneous, Interacting Auctions. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 19:209–242, 2003.
  Available from journal's web page.
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• Peter Stone. Multiagent Competitions and Research: Lessons from RoboCup and TAC. In Gal A. Kaminka, Pedro U. Lima, and Raul Rojas, editors, RoboCup-2002: Robot Soccer World Cup VI, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 224–237, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2003.
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• Michael P. Wellman, Amy Greenwald, Peter Stone, and Peter R. Wurman. The 2001 Trading Agent Competition. Electronic Markets, 13(1):4–12, May 2003.
  Available from the publisher's webpage
  An earlier version appeared in Fourteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, pages 935-941, Edmonton, July 2002.
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• Shimon Whiteson and Peter Stone. Concurrent Layered Learning. In Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 193–200, ACM Press, New York, NY, July 2003.
  AAMAS-2003
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• Ronggang Yu and Peter Stone. Performance Analysis of a Counter-intuitive Automated Stock-Trading Strategy. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2003.
  ICEC-2003
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2002

• Paul S. A. Reitsma, Peter Stone, János A. Csirik, and Michael L. Littman. Self-enforcing Strategic Demand Reduction. In Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce IV: Designing Mechanisms and Systems, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 289–306, Springer Verlag, 2002.
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• Robert E. Schapire, Peter Stone, David McAllester, Michael L. Littman, and János A. Csirik. Modeling Auction Price Uncertainty Using Boosting-based Conditional Density Estimation. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, 2002.
  ICML-2002
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• Peter Stone. ATTUnited-2001: Using Heterogeneous Players. In Andreas Birk, Silvia Coradeschi, and Satoshi Tadokoro, editors, RoboCup-2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 49