Publications

• Integrating Value Function-Based and Policy Search Methods for Sequential Decision Making
  Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Peter Stone
  In the Multidisciplinary Symposium on Reinforcement Learning (MSRL 2009). Extended abstract.
  
• Three Humanoid Soccer Platforms: Comparison and Synthesis
  Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Todd Hester, Michael Quinlan, Yinon Bentor and Peter Stone
  In Proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium 2009. To appear as short paper.
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• Learning Complementary Multiagent Behaviors: A Case Study
  Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Peter Stone
  In Proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium 2009. To appear.
  Winner of Best Student Paper Award at the RoboCup International Symposium 2009, Graz, Austria.
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  A similiar version of this paper was accepted at the Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop at AAMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary. A short version appears in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009).
  Supplementary videos available at the UT Austin Villa Keepaway GetOpen page.
  
• An Empirical Analysis of Value Function-Based and Policy Search Reinforcement Learning
  Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Peter Stone
  In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009), IFAAMAS, Richland, SC, USA, 2009. pp. 749-756.
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• The UT Austin Villa 3D Simulation Soccer Team 2008
  Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Yinon Bentor and Peter Stone
  Technical Report AI09-01, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory, 2009.
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  Supplementary binary and videos available at the UT Austin Villa 3D Simulation page.
  
• The UT Austin Villa 3D Simulation Soccer Team 2007
  Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Peter Stone
  Technical Report AI07-348, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory, 2007.
  PS, PDF, Abstract and BibTeX
  Supplementary binary and videos available at the UT Austin Villa 3D Simulation page.
  
• Model-based Reinforcement Learning in a Complex Domain
  Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Peter Stone and Yaxin Liu
  In Ubbo Visser, Fernando Ribeiro, Takeshi Ohashi, and Frank Dellaert, editors, RoboCup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2008. pp. 171-183.
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• Batch Reinforcement Learning in a Complex Domain
  Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Peter Stone
  In Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007), ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2007. pp. 650-657.
  Nominee for Best Student Paper Award at AAMAS 2007, Honolulu, Hawai'i, U.S.A.
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• Half Field Offense in RoboCup Soccer: A Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Case Study
  Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Yaxin Liu and Peter Stone
  In Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico Sorrenti, and Tomoichi Takahashi, editors, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2007. pp. 72-85.
  Winner of Best Student Paper Award at the RoboCup International Symposium 2006, Bremen, Germany.
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  Supplementary videos available at the UT Austin Villa Half Field Offense page.