Date of Award:

5-2010

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

English

Advisor/Chair:

Jennifer Sinor

Abstract

POND-Hindsight was entered into the POMDP track of the 2011 International Probabilistic Planning Competition (IPPC) and performed comparable to its competitors { ranking in the middle of six planners. Benchmarks on the IPPC-2011 problems were run on a cluster of identical computers in order to evaluate computation time and plan quality. Success can be attributed to determinization of the problem, and failure can be attributed to a sometimes misleading heuristic combined with a greedy bestrst lookahead algorithm.

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This work made publicly available electronically on September 29, 2011.

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