Recent Publications

John Levine

Levine, J. and Ducatelle, F. (2003). Ants Can Solve Difficult Bin Packing Problems. Proceedings of the 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2003), Nottingham, UK, August 13-16th.

Levine, J. and Ducatelle, F. (2003). Ant Colony Optimisation and Local Search for Bin Packing and Cutting Stock Problems. Journal of the Operational Research Society, Special Issue on Local Search, accepted subject to minor revisions.

Westerberg, H. and Levine, J. (2003). Apollo 13: A Challenge Domain for the Planning Community. Proceedings of the Workshop on the Planning Competition held at the 13th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'03), Trento, Italy, June 9-13th.

Yannakakis, G., Levine, J., Hallam, J. and Papageorgiou, M. (2003). Performance, Robustness and Effort Cost Comparison of Machine Learning Mechanisms in FlatLand. 11th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED'03), Rhodes, Greece, June 18-20.

Cumiskey, M., Levine, J. and Armstrong, D. (2003). Gene Network Reconstruction Using a Distributed GA with a Backprop Local Search. Proceedings of the 1st European Workshop on Evolutionary Bioinformatics (EvoBIO 2003), Springer.

Levine, J. and Humphreys, D. (2003). Learning Action Strategies for Planning Domains using Genetic Programming. Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Scheduling and Timetabling (EvoSTIM 2003), Springer.

Garcia, S., Levine, J. and Gonzalez, F. (2003). Multi Niche Parallel GP with a Junk-code Migration Model. Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2003), Springer.

Tate, A., Levine, J., Dalton, J. and Nixon, A. (2003). Task Achieving Agents on the World Wide Web. In Fensel, D., Hendler, J., Lieberman, H. and Wahlster, W. (eds.), Spinning the Semantic Web, MIT Press.

Nammuni, K., Levine, J. and Kingston, J. (2002). Skill-based Resource Allocation using Genetic Algorithms and Ontologies. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Intelligent Knowledge Management Techniques (I-KOMAT 2002) held at the 6th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2002), September 2002, IOS Press, Amsterdam.

Levine, J. (ed.) (2001). PLANSIG 2001: Proceedings of the 20th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group. University of Edinburgh, 13-14th December 2001.

Westerberg, H. and Levine, J. (2001). Optimising Plans using Genetic Programming. Proceedings of the UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI-01), Edinburgh, September 2001.

Ducatelle, F. and Levine, J. (2001). Ant Colony Optimisation for Bin Packing and Cutting Stock Problems. Proceedings of the UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI-01), Edinburgh, September 2001.

Westerberg, H. and Levine, J. (2001). Optimising Plans using Genetic Programming. Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Planning (ECP-01), September 2001, Springer.

Westerberg, H. and Levine, J. (2001). Investigation of Different Seeding Strategies in a Genetic Planner. Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Scheduling and Timetabling (EvoSTIM 2001) held at the 4th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2001), April 2001, Springer.

Willmott, S., Richardson, J., Bundy, A. and Levine, J. (2001). Applying Adversarial Planning Techniques to Go. Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 252, No. 1-2, February 2001, Elsevier, 45--82.

Westerberg, H. and Levine, J. (2000). GenPlan: Combining Genetic Programming and Planning. Proceedings of the 19th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PLANSIG 2000), Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, December 2000.

Ruscio, L., Levine, J. and Kingston, J. (2000). Applying Genetic Algorithms to Hierarchical Task Network Planning. Proceedings of the 19th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PLANSIG 2000), Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, December 2000.

Nixon, A., Levine, J. and Tate, A. (2000). Limited Media Interface for AI Planning System. Proceedings of the 19th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PLANSIG 2000), Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, December 2000.

Levine, J., Tate A. and Dalton, J. (2000). O-P3: Supporting the Planning Process using Open Planning Process Panels. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 15, No. 6, November/December 2000.

Tate, A., Dalton, J. and Levine, J. (2000). O-Plan: a Web-based AI Planning Agent. AAAI-2000 Intelligent Systems Demonstrator, in Proceedings of the National Conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000), Austin, Texas, USA, July 2000.

Tate, A., Levine, J., Jarvis, P. and Dalton, J. (2000). Using AI Planning Technology for Army Small Unit Operations. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling (AIPS-2000), Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, AAAI Press, 379-386, April 2000.

Tate A., Levine, J., Dalton, J. and Aitken, S. (1999). O-P3: Supporting the Planning Process using Open Planning Process Panels. Proceedings of the AAAI-99 Workshop on Agent Based Systems in the Business Context, Orlando, USA, July 1999.

Tate, A., Dalton, J., Levine, J. and Jarvis, P., (1999). Using Shared Models of Activity to Underpin Coalition Planning. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Knowledge-Based Planning for Coalition Forces, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 1999.

Tate, A., Dalton, J. and Levine, J. (1999). Multi-Perspective Planning -- Using Domain Constraints to Support the Coordinated Development of Plans. Technical Report AFRL-IF-RS-TR-1999-60, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY, USA, April 1999. Available from the U.S. National Technical Information Service (NTIS).

Willmott, S., Richardson, J., Bundy, A., and Levine, J. (1999). An Adversarial Planning Approach to Go. In H.J. van den Herik and H. Iida (eds.), CG'98, LNCS 1558, 93--112, Springer.

Tate A., Levine, J., Dalton, J. and Aitken, S. (1998). O-P3 -- Open Planning Process Panels. Proceedings of the ARPI Fall Workshop, Washington DC, USA, October 1998.

Tate, A., Dalton, J. and Levine, J. (1998). Generation of Multiple Qualitatively Different Plan Options. Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on AI Planning Systems (AIPS-98), Pittsburgh, USA.

Reiter, E., Mellish, C. and Levine, J. (1998). Automatic Generation of Technical Documentation. In Maybury, M. and Wahlster, W. (eds.) Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces, Morgan Kaufmann, 141--156.

Willmott, S., Bundy, A., Levine, J. and Richardson, J. (1998). Adversarial Planning in Complex Domains. DAI Research Paper 889, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh.

John Levine
2nd June 2003