Erez Karpas

Contact information

	Work: +972-4-8292226 Fax: +972-4-8295688
	Erez Karpas William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Technion City, Haifa 32000 Israel

Research

I completed my Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Carmel Domshlak and Prof. Shaul Markovitch.

Publications

Theis

• Non-classical Heuristics for Classical Planning
  Erez Karpas
  Ph.D. thesis, March 2012
  Slides

In Journals

• Online Speedup Learning for Optimal Planning
  Carmel Domshlak, Erez Karpas, and Shaul Markovitch
  Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 44, pages 709-755

• Approximate Belief Updating in Max-2-connected Bayes Networks is NP-hard
  Erez Karpas, Solomon Eyal Shimony, and Amos Beimel
  Artificial Intelligence 173(12-13):1150-1153, 2009

In Conferences

• Data-Parallel Computing Meets STRIPS
  Erez Karpas, Tomer Sagi, Carmel Domshlak, Avigdor Gal, Avi Mendelson, and Moshe Tennenholtz
  AAAI 2013 (To appear)
  

• Toward Rational Deployment of Multiple Heuristics in A*
  David Tolpin, Tal Beja, Solomon Eyal Shimony, Ariel Felner, and Erez Karpas
  IJCAI 2013 (To appear)
  Also in ICAPS 2013 Workshop on Heuristics and Search for Domain-Independent Planning (HSDIP 2013)
  

• Optimal Search with Inadmissible Heuristics
  Erez Karpas and Carmel Domshlak
  ICAPS 2012
  Slides

• When Optimal is Just Not Good Enough: Learning Fast Informative Action Cost-Partitionings
  Erez Karpas, Michael Katz, and Shaul Markovitch
  ICAPS 2011
  Slides

• To Max or not to Max: Online Learning for Speeding Up Optimal Planning
  Carmel Domshlak, Erez Karpas, and Shaul Markovitch
  AAAI 2010
  Slides   Poster
  (Runner-up ex-aequo in sequential optimal track, IPC 2011)

• Cost-optimal Planning with Landmarks
  Erez Karpas and Carmel Domshlak
  IJCAI 2009
  Slides (short version)   (long version)

In Workshops

• Optimal Planning and Shortcut Learning: An Unfulfilled Promise
  Erez Karpas and Carmel Domshlak
  ICAPS 2013 Workshop on Planning and Learning (PAL)

• Heuristics for Planning under Partial Observability with Sensing Actions
  Guy Shani, Ronen Brafman, Shlomi Maliah, and Erez Karpas
  ICAPS 2013 Workshop on Heuristics and Search for Domain Independent Planning (HSDIP)

• Deeply Preferred Operators: Lazy Search Meets Lookahead
  Roei Bahumi, Carmel Domshlak and Erez Karpas
  ICAPS 2012 Workshop on Heuristics and Search for Domain Independent Planning (HSDIP)
  Slides

• Living on the Edge: Safe Search with Unsafe Heuristics
  Erez Karpas and Carmel Domshlak
  ICAPS 2011 Workshop on Heuristics for Domain Independent Planning (HDIP)
  Slides

• Command and Control Training Centers: Computer Generated Forces Meet Classical Planning
  Carmel Domshlak, Ziv Even-Zur, Yannai Golany, Erez Karpas and Yevgeni Nus
  ICAPS 2011 Workshop on Scheduling and Planning Applications (SPARK)
  Slides (warning: 80+ MB)

• FD-Autotune: Domain-Specific Configuration using Fast Downward
  Chris Fawcett, Malte Helmert, Holger Hoos, Erez Karpas, Gabriele Röger, Jendrik Seipp
  ICAPS 2011 Workshop on Learning and Planning (PAL)
  (Runner-up in learning track, IPC 2011)

• Fast Downward Stone Soup: A Baseline for Building Planner Portfolios
  Malte Helmert, Gabriele Roger, Erez Karpas
  ICAPS 2011 Workshop on Learning and Planning (PAL)
  (Winner in sequential optimal track and runner-up in sequential satisficing track, IPC 2011)

• Learning to Combine Admissible Heuristics Under Bounded Time
  Carmel Domshlak, Erez Karpas, and Shaul Markovitch
  ICAPS 2009 Workshop on Planning and Learning
  Slides   Poster

Software

• I am currently one of the developers of Fast Downward

Tutorials

• Landmarks - Definitions, Discovery, Methods and Uses
  Erez Karpas and Silvia Richter
  ICAPS 2010
  Video

Organization

• 4th Workshop on Learning and Planning, ICAPS 2013
  Organizing Comittee
• Workshop on Heuristics and Search for Domain-Independent Planning, ICAPS 2012
  Organizing Comittee
• EC Day 2012
  Organizer
• 3rd Workshop on Learning and Planning, ICAPS 2011
  Organizing Comittee

Travel

This is my travelblog,