Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

• J. Pineau, M. Montemerlo, M. Pollack, N. Roy, & S. Thrun "Towards robotic assistants in nursing homes: Challenges and results''. Special issue on Socially Interactive Robots, Robotics and Autonomous Systems 42 (3-4). pp.271-281.
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Refereed Conference Papers

• J. Pineau, G. Gordon & S. Thrun "Applying Metric-Trees to Belief-Point POMDPs''. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). Vancouver, Canada. 2003.
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• J. Pineau, G. Gordon & S. Thrun "Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs''. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Acapulco, Mexico. pp. 1025-1032. Aug. 2003.
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• J. Pineau, G. Gordon & S. Thrun. "Policy-contingent abstraction for robust robot control''. Conference on Uncertainty in Articifical Intelligence (UAI). Acapulco, Mexico. pp. 477-484. Aug. 2003.
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• M. Montemerlo, J. Pineau, N. Roy, S. Thrun & V. Verma "Experiences with a Mobile Robotic Guide for the Elderly''. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Edmonton, AB. pp. 587-592. Aug. 2002.
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• N. Roy, J. Pineau & S. Thrun. "Spoken Dialog Management Using Probabilistic Reasoning''. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Hong Kong, Oct. 2000.
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• D. Goddeau & J. Pineau "Fast Reinforcement Learning of Dialog Strategies''. IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Istanbul, Turkey. June 2000.
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• G. Proulx & J. Pineau. "Differences in the Evacuation Behaviour of Office and Apartment Building Occupants''. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) 40th Annual Meeting. Vol.2. Philadelphia, PA. Sept. 1996, pp.825-829.
  

Refereed Workshop Papers

• J. Pineau, G. Gordon & S. Thrun "Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs''. Workshop on Advances in Machine Learning. Montreal, Canada. June 2003. (NOTE: This is an early version of the identically-titled IJCAI conference paper above.)
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• J. Pineau, M. Montemerlo, M. Pollack, N. Roy & S. Thrun. "Probabilistic control of human robot interaction: Experiments with a robotic assistant for Nursing Homes''. The second IARP/IEEE/RAS Joint Workshop on Technical Challenges for Robots in Human Environments (DRHE). Toulouse, France. Oct. 2002.
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• J. Pineau, M. Montemerlo, M. Pollack, N. Roy & S. Thrun. "Towards robotic assistants in nursing homes: challenges and results''. Workshop on Social Robots (IROS). Lausanne, Switzerland. Sept. 2002.(NOTE: This is an early version of the identically-titled journal paper above.)
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• J. Pineau, & S. Thrun. "High-level robot behaviour control with POMDPs''. Workshop on Cognitive Robotics (AAAI). Edmonton, Canada. Aug. 2002.
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• M. Pollack, S. Engberg, J.T. Matthews, S. Thrun, L. Brown, D. Colbry, C. Orosz, B. Peintner, S. Ramakrishnan, J. Dunbar-Jacob, C. McCarthy, M. Montemerlo, J. Pineau, & N. Roy. "Pearl: A Mobile Robotic Assistant for the Elderly''. Workshop on Automation as Caregiver: the Role of Intelligent Technology in Elder Care (AAAI). Edmonton, AB. Aug. 2002.
  

• J. Pineau, N. Roy & S. Thrun. "A Hierarchical Approach to POMDP Planning and Execution''. Workshop on Hierarchy and Memory in Reinforcement Learning (ICML). Williams College, MA. June 2001. June 2001.
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• N. Roy, G. Baltus, D. Fox, F. Gemperle, J. Goetz, T. Hirsch, D. Margaritis, M. Montemerlo, J. Pineau, J. Schulte & S. Thrun. "Towards Personal Service Robots for the Elderly''. Workshop on Interactive Robots and Entertainment (WIRE). Pittsburgh, PA. 2000.
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Technical Reports

• J. Pineau & S. Thrun. "An integrated approach to hierarchy and abstraction for POMDPs". CMU-RI-TR-02-21. Carnegie Mellon University. 2002.
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Thesis Proposal

• J. Pineau. "Hierarchical Methods for Planning under Uncertainty''. June 2001.
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Talks

• "Tractable Planning for Real-World Robotics". Stanford AI Lab. Stanford, CA. May 2004.
  

• "Planning under Uncertainty". Dagstuhl Workshop on Plan-based Control of Robotic Agents. Dagstuhl, Germany. June 2003.
  

• "Approximate POMDP planning: Overcoming the curse of history". Machine Learning Lunch Seminar. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Mar. 2003.
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• "Probabilistic approaches to reasoning and control: Towards autonomous interactive mobile robots". TAMALE Seminar. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. Mar. 2003.
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• "La robotique au service des personnes agees". Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada. Sept. 2002.
  

• "Hierarchical Policy Constraints for POMDP Planning and Execution". Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (NIPS). Breckenridge, CO. Dec. 2000.
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Recent Submissions

• None pending.