Publications by Felner, Ariel
In Journal (refereed)
1. | R. Holte, A. Felner, G. Sharon, N. Sturtevant, J. Chen. "MM: A Bidirectional Search That Is Guaranteed to Meet in the Middle". Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), 252, pp 232-266, August 2017. |
2. | M. Goldenberg, A. Felner, R. Stern, G. Sharon, N. Sturtevant, R. Holte, J. Schaeffer. "Enhanced Partial Expansion A*". Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 50, pp 141-187, May 2015. |
3. | G. Sharon, R. Stern, A. Felner, N. Sturtevant. "Conflict-based Search for Optimal Multi-agent Pathfinding". Artificial Intelligence, 219, pp 40-66, February 2015. |
4. | A. Felner, U. Zahavi, R. Holte, J. Schaeffer. "Duality in Search Spaces and the Dual Search Algorithm". Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), March 2007. |
5. | A. Felner, R. Korf, R. Meshulam, R. Holte. "Compressed Pattern Databases". Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, January 2007. |
6. | R. Holte, A. Felner, J. Newton, R. Meshulam, D. Furcy. "Maximizing over Multiple Pattern Databases speeds up Heuristic Search". Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), 170, pp 1123-1136, November 2006. |
In Conference (refereed)
7. | N. Sturtevant, S. Shperberg, A. Felner, J. Chen. "Predicting the Effectiveness of Bidirectional Heuristic Search". ICAPS, (ed: J. Christopher Beck, Olivier Buffet, Jörg Hoffmann, Erez Karpas, Shirin Sohrabi), pp 281-290, October 2020. |
8. | D. Atzmon, R. Stern, A. Felner, N. Sturtevant, S. Koenig. "Probabilistic Robust Multi-Agent Path Finding". ICAPS, (ed: J. Christopher Beck, Olivier Buffet, Jörg Hoffmann, Erez Karpas, Shirin Sohrabi), pp 29-37, October 2020. |
9. | D. Atzmon, J. Li, A. Felner, E. Nachmani, S. Shperberg, N. Sturtevant, S. Koenig. "Multi-Directional Heuristic Search". International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), (ed: Christian Bessiere), pp 4062-4068, July 2020. |
10. | T. Walker, N. Sturtevant, A. Felner. "Generalized and Sub-Optimal Bipartite Constraints for Conflict-Based Search". National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp 7277-7284, February 2020. |
11. | S. Shperberg, A. Felner, S. Shimony, N. Sturtevant, A. Hayoun. "Improving Bidirectional Heuristic Search by Bounds Propagation". Symposium on Combinatorial Search, (ed: Pavel Surynek, William Yeoh), pp 106-114, July 2019. |
12. | R. Stern, N. Sturtevant, A. Felner, S. Koenig, H. Ma, T. Walker, J. Li, D. Atzmon, L. Cohen, T. Kumar, R. Barták, E. Boyarski. "Multi-Agent Pathfinding: Definitions, Variants, and Benchmarks". Symposium on Combinatorial Search, (ed: Pavel Surynek, William Yeoh), pp 151-159, July 2019. |
13. | T. Walker, N. Sturtevant, A. Felner. "Unbounded Sub-Optimal Conflict-Based Search in Complex Domains". Symposium on Combinatorial Search, (ed: Pavel Surynek, William Yeoh), pp 204-205, July 2019. |
14. | S. Shperberg, A. Felner, N. Sturtevant, S. Shimony, A. Hayoun. "Enriching Non-Parametric Bidirectional Search Algorithms". National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp 2379-2386, January 2019. |
15. | T. Walker, N. Sturtevant, A. Felner. "Extended Increasing Cost Tree Search for Non-Unit Cost Domains". International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), (ed: Jérôme Lang), pp 534-540, July 2018. |
16. | E. Shaham, A. Felner, N. Sturtevant, J. Rosenschein. "Minimizing Node Expansions in Bidirectional Search with Consistent Heuristics". Symposium on Combinatorial Search, (ed: Vadim Bulitko, Sabine Storandt), pp 81-98, July 2018. |
17. | N. Sturtevant, A. Felner. "A Brief History and Recent Achievements in Bidirectional Search". National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), (ed: Sheila A. McIlraith, Kilian Q. Weinberger), pp 8000-8007, February 2018. |
18. | M. Helmert, N. Sturtevant, A. Felner. "On Variable Dependencies and Compressed Pattern Databases". Symposium on Combinatorial Search, (ed: Alex Fukunaga, Akihiro Kishimoto), pp 129-133, June 2017. |
19. | A. Felner, R. Stern, S. Shimony, E. Boyarski, M. Goldenberg, G. Sharon, N. Sturtevant, G. Wagner, P. Surynek. "Search-Based Optimal Solvers for the Multi-Agent Pathfinding Problem: Summary and Challenges". Symposium on Combinatorial Search, (ed: Alex Fukunaga, Akihiro Kishimoto), pp 29-37, June 2017. |
20. | E. Shaham, A. Felner, J. Chen, N. Sturtevant. "The Minimal Set of States that Must Be Expanded in a Front-to-End Bidirectional Search". Symposium on Combinatorial Search, (ed: Alex Fukunaga, Akihiro Kishimoto), pp 82-90, June 2017. |
21. | N. Sturtevant, A. Felner, M. Helmert. "Value Compression of Pattern Databases". National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), San Francisco, USA, (ed: Satinder P. Singh, Shaul Markovitch), pp 912-918, February 2017. |
22. | G. Sharon, R. Holte, A. Felner, N. Sturtevant. "Extended Abstract: An Improved Priority Function for Bidirectional Heuristic Search". Symposium on Combinatorial Search, (ed: Jorge A. Baier, Adi Botea), pp 139-140, July 2016. |
23. | R. Holte, A. Felner, G. Sharon, N. Sturtevant. "Bidirectional Search That Is Guaranteed to Meet in the Middle". National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), (ed: Dale Schuurmans, Michael P. Wellman), pp 3411-3417, February 2016. |
24. | N. Sturtevant, A. Felner, M. Helmert. "Exploiting the Rubik's Cube 12-Edge PDB by Combining Partial Pattern Databases and Bloom Filters". Symposium on Combinatorial Search, (ed: Stefan Edelkamp, Roman Barták), pp 175-183, August 2014. |
25. | G. Sharon, A. Felner, N. Sturtevant. "Exponential Deepening A* for Real-Time Agent-Centered Search". National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), (ed: Carla E. Brodley, Peter Stone), pp 871-877, July 2014. |
26. | G. Sharon, N. Sturtevant, A. Felner. "Online Detection of Dead States in Real-Time Agent-Centered Search". Symposium on Combinatorial Search, (ed: Malte Helmert, Gabriele Röger), pp 167-174, July 2013. |
27. | M. Goldenberg, A. Felner, N. Sturtevant, R. Holte, J. Schaeffer. "Optimal-Generation Variants of EPEA". Symposium on Combinatorial Search, (ed: Malte Helmert, Gabriele Röger), pp 89-97, July 2013. |
28. | U. Zahavi, A. Felner, J. Schaeffer, N. Sturtevant. "Inconsistent Heuristics". National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp 1121-1216, April 2007. |
29. | U. Zahavi, A. Felner, R. Holte, J. Schaeffer. "Dual Search in Permutation State Spaces". National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, pp 1076-1081, January 2006. |
30. | A. Felner, U. Zahavi, J. Schaeffer, R. Holte. "Dual Lookups in Pattern Databases". International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Edinburgh, Scotland, pp 103-108, August 2005. |
31. | R. Holte, J. Newton, A. Felner, R. Meshulam, D. Furcy. "Multiple Pattern Databases". ICAPS, pp 122-131, June 2004. |
32. | A. Felner, R. Meshulam, R. Holte, R. Korf. "Compressing Pattern Databases". National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), San Jose, California, USA, pp 638-643, March 2004. |