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 am a Ph.D. student in the field of Artificial Intelligence under the supervision of Prof. Carmel Domshlak and Prof. Shaul Markovitch . My main research interest is in using machine learning to speed up automated planning. I am also interested in general game playing.

Publications

In Journals

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 3rd Workshop on Learning and Planning,ICAPS 2011
  Organizing Comittee

Travel

This is my travelblog,