Title
Bounded Approximations for Linear Multi-Objective Planning Under Uncertainty.
Abstract
Planning under uncertainty poses a complex problem in which multiple objectives often need to be balanced. When dealing with multiple objectives, it is often assumed that the relative importance of the objectives is known a priori. However, in practice human decision makers often find it hard to specify such preferences, and would prefer a decision support system that presents a range of possible alternatives. We propose two algorithms for computing these alternatives for the case of linearly weighted objectives. First, we propose an anytime method, approximate optimistic linear support (AOLS), that incrementally builds up a complete set of epsilon-optimal plans, exploiting the piecewise-linear and convex shape of the value function. Second, we propose an approximate anytime method, scalarised sample incremental improvement (SSII), that employs weight sampling to focus on the most interesting regions in weight space, as suggested by a prior over preferences. We show empirically that our methods are able to produce (near-)optimal alternative sets orders of magnitude faster than existing techniques.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2014
Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
planning,markov decision process
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
2334-0835
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
11
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Diederik Marijn Roijers1221.79
Joris Scharpff2152.67
Matthijs T.J. Spaan386363.84
Frans A. Oliehoek439740.32
Mathijs Weerdt541141.00
Shimon Whiteson6146099.00