Publications
2018- Present: Publications
2017
Bhargava, N.; Vaquero, T.; Williams, B. (2017). Faster Conflict Generation for Dynamic Controllability. Proceeding of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Melbourne, Australia.
Chrpa, L.; McCluskey, T. L.; Vallati, M.; and Vaquero, T. (2017). The Fifth International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling: Summary and Trends. AI Magazine, Vol 38, No 1, pp 104-106. (pdf)
2016
Santana, P.; Vaquero, T.; Timmons, E.; Williams, B.; McGhan, C.; Murray, R.; and Toledo, C. (2016). Risk-aware Planning in Hybrid Domains: An Application to Autonomous Planetary Rovers. In Proceedings of the AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition (AIAA SPACE).
McGhan, C.; Murray, R.; Vaquero, T.; Williams, B.; Ingham, M., Ono, M.; Estlin, T.; Lanka, R.; Arsla, O.; and Elaasar, M. (2016). The Resilient Spacecraft Executive: An Architecture for Risk-Aware Operations in Uncertain Environments. In Proceedings of the AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition (AIAA SPACE).
McGhan, C.; Wang, W.; Murray, R.; Vaquero, T.; Williams, B.; Colledanchisek, M.; and Ogren, P. (2016). Towards Architecture-wide Analysis, Verification, and Validation for Total System Stability During Goal-Seeking Space Robotics Operations. In Proceedings of the AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition (AIAA SPACE).
Timmons, E.; Vaquero, T.; Williams, B.; and Camilli, R. (2016). Preliminary Deployment of a Risk-aware Goal-directed Executive on Autonomous Underwater Glider. In Proceedings of the ICAPS 2016 Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob).
Niemueller, T.; Karpas, E.; Vaquero, T.; and Timmons, E. (2016). Planning Competition for Logistics Robots in Simulation. In Proceedings of the ICAPS 2016 Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob).
Santana, P.; Vaquero, T.; Toledo, C.; Wang, A.; Fang, C.; and Williams, B. (2016). PARIS: a Polynomial - time, Risk - Sensitive Scheduling Algorithm for Probabilistic Simple Temporal Networks with Uncertainty. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling.
2015
Vallati, M.; Vaquero, T. 2015. "Towards a Unified Protocol for Benchmark Selection in IPC," The International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS 2014) Workshop on International Planning Competition (IPC), Jerusalem, Israel.
Vaquero, T.; Mohamed, S.C.; Nejat, G.; and Beck. JC. The implementation of a planning and scheduling architecture for multiple robots assisting multiple users in a retirement home setting. Workshops at the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Quebec, Canada.
2014
Vaquero, T.; Beck, J.C.; Nejat, G. 2014. "Planning and Scheduling Single and Multi-Person Activities in Retirement Home Settings for a Group of Robots," The International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS 2014) Workshop on Planning and Robotics pp. 59-68.
Louie, W.G.; Li, J.; Vaquero, T.; Nejat, G. 2014. “A Focus Group Study on the Design Considerations and Impressions of a Socially Assistive Robot for Long-Term Care,” IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2014, In Print.
Louie, W.G.; Li, J.; Vaquero, T.; Nejat, G. 2014. "Socially Assistive Robots for Seniors Living in Residential Care Homes: User Requirements and Impressions," Human-Robot Interactions: Principles, Technologies and Challenges. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. pp pp.75-108.
Louie, W.G.; Vaquero, T.; Nejat, G.; Beck, J. C. 2014. "An Autonomous Assistive Robot for Planning, Scheduling and Facilitating Multi-User Activities," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 5292-5298.
Schwenk, M.; Vaquero, T.; Nejat, G.; Arras, K.O. 2014. "Schedule-Based Robotic Search for Multiple Residents in a Retirement Home Environment," The 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Quebec City, Canada, pp. 2571- 2577.
Schwenk, M.; Vaquero, T.; Nejat, G.; Arras, K.O. 2014. "Planning a Robot's Search for Multiple Residents in a Retirement Home Environment," The International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS) Workshop on Planning and Robotics, pp. 136-144.
2013
Vaquero, T.S.; Silva, J.R; Beck, J.C. Post-Design Analysis for Building and Refining AI Planning Systems. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 26 (2013) 1967–1979.
Vaquero, T.S.; Silva, J.R.; Tonidandel, F.; Beck, J.C. 2013. itSIMPLE: Towards an Integrated Design System for Real Planning Applications. The Knowledge Engineering Review Journal, Vol. 28:2, 215–230. Special issue on International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning & Scheduling (ICKEPS). Cambridge University Press. 2013. DOI: 10.1017/S0269888912000434
R. Basbaum, T.S. Vaquero and J.R. Silva. Requirement Analysis Method for Real World in Automated Planning Systems. In: Proceedings of the Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling workshop. The 23th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS 2013), Rome, Italy. 2013.
2012
Vaquero, T.S.; Costa, G.; Tonidandel, F.; Igreja, H.; Silva, J.R.; Beck, J.C. Planning and Scheduling Ship Operations on Petroleum Ports and Platforms. In: Proceedings of the ICAPS 2012 Workshop on Scheduling and Planning Applications (SPARK), p 8-16. Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil. 2012. (Online proceedings)
Vaquero, T.S.; Tonaco, R.; Costa, G.; Tonidandel, F.; Silva, J.R.; Beck, J.C. itSIMPLE4.0: Enhancing the Modeling Experience of Planning Problems. In: Proceedings of the ICAPS 2012 System Demonstration, p 11-14. Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil. 2012. (pdf)
2011
Vaquero, T.S.; Silva, J.R.; Beck, J.C. A Brief Review of Tools and Methods for Knowledge Engineering for Planning & Scheduling. In: Proceedings of the Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS) workshop. The 21th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS 2011). Freiburg. Germany. 2011.
Vaquero, T.S.; Silva, J.R.; Beck, J.C. Acquisition and Reuse of Plan Evaluation Rationales on Post Design. In: Proceedings of the Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS) workshop. The 21th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS 2011). Freiburg. Germany. 2011.
Vaquero, T.S.; Silva, J.R.; Beck, J.C. A Conceptual Framework for Post-Design Analysis in AI Planning Applications. In: Proceedings of the Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS) workshop. The 21th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS 2011). Freiburg. Germany. 2011.
2010
Vaquero, T.S.; Silva, J.R.; Beck, J.C. Improving Planning Performance Through Post-Design Analysis. In: Proceedings of the Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling workshop. The 20th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS 2010), Toronto. Canada. 2010.
Vaquero, T.S.; Silva, J.R.; Beck, J.C. Analyzing Plans and Planners in itSIMPLE3.1. In: Proceedings of the Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling workshop. The 20th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS 2010). Toronto. Canada. 2010.
2009
Vaquero, T.S.; Silva, J.R.; Tonidandel, F.; Ferreira, M.; Beck, J.C. From Requirements and Analysis to PDDL in itSIMPLE3.0. In: The 3rd The International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICKEPS'09). In the 19th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS 2009), Thessaloniki. Greece. 2009.
Vaquero, T. S.; Sette, F.; Silva, J. R.; Beck, J.C. Planning and Scheduling of Crude Oil Distribution in a Petroleum Plant. In: ICAPS'09 Workshop on Scheduling and Planning Applications (SPARK). Thessaloniki. Greece. 2009.
2008
Vaquero, T.S.; Tonidandel, F.; Silva, J.R. Suggestions for the Knowledge Engineering Competition. In: ICAPS-08 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS). Sydney, Australia. 2008.
Gomes, M.L.; Vaquero, T.S.; Silva, J.R.; Tonidandel, F. Extracting State Constraints from UML Planning Models. In: ICAPS-08 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS). Sydney, Australia. 2008.
Udo, M.; Vaquero, T.S.; Silva, J.R.; Tonidandel, F. Lean Software Development Domain. In: ICAPS-08 Workshop on Scheduling and Planning Applications (SPARK). Sydney, Australia. 2008.
Sette, F. ; Vaquero, T.S; Park S.W.; Silva, J.R. Are Automated Planners up to Solve Real Problems?. In: The 17th IFAC World Congress (IFAC 2008), 2008, Seoul, Korea.
2007
Vaquero, T.S.; Romero, V.; Tonidandel, F.; Silva, J.R. itSIMPLE2.0 : An Integrated Tool for Designing Planning Domains. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2007, Providence, Rhode Island. ICKEPS 2005 Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling. Menlo Park, California, USA, 2007.
Vaquero, T.S.; Tonidandel, F.; Barros, L.N. ; Silva, J.R. Modeling a Real Application as a Planning Problem by using UML.P. In: VIII SBAI - Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente, 2007, Florianópolis, Brazil, 2007. Full Paper.
Romero, V.; Vaquero, T.S.; Tonidandel, F.; Silva, J.R. Analysis and Management of Plans provided by Automated Planning Systems. In: VIII SBAI - Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente, 2007, Florianópolis, Brazil, 2007.
Gomes, M.L.; Udo, M.; Vaquero, T.S.; Silva, J.R.; Tonidandel, F. Obtaining States Invariants From Class Diagram in UML.P. In: VIII SBAI - Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente, 2007, Florianópolis, Brazil, 2007..
Vaquero, T.S.; Sette, F.; Santos, E.A.; Silva, J.R. Integrated Tools Environment for Modeling and Analysis of Automated Planning Systems. In: COBEM07 - the 19th Congress of Mechanical Engineering, 2007, Brasilia, Brazil. 19th Congress of Mechanical Engineering - COBEM, 2007.
2006
Vaquero, T.S., Tonidandel, F., Barros, L.N., and Silva, J.R. On the use of UML.P for modeling a real planning problem . In Proceeding of 16th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Cumbria, UK. 2006.
Tonidandel, F., Vaquero, T.S., and Silva, J.R. Reading PDDL, Writing an Object-Oriented Model. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. International Joint Conference on AI IBERAMIA/SBIA. Springer-Verlag. 2006.
2005
Vaquero, T.S., Tonidandel, F., and Silva, J.R. The itSIMPLE tool for Modeling Planning Domains. In Proceedings of the First International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for AI Planning and Scheduling (ICKEPS). Monterey, California, USA. 2005.
Santos, E., Vaquero, T.S., and Silva, J.R. Specification and Analysis for Automated Flexible Manufacturing. In Proceedings of 18th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering (COBEM), Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil. 2005.