He coauthored the papers that coined the widely used terms
anytime algorithm, performance profile, and conformant planning.
However, these algorithms can be grouped in many categories such as static algorithms,
anytime algorithms, and replanning algorithms [4].
As one example of a well-motivated deterministic unsound algorithms, consider anytime algorithms [Zilberstein 1993; Zilberstein 1996]: While addressing a specific problem, these systems are required to produce an answer whenever requested, even before the system has run to completion.
Operational Rationality through Compilation of Anytime Algorithms. Tech.
1995], and specialized query languages that can selectively reorder operations for higher efficiency [Imielinski and Mannila 1996]; and (iii) efficient online reformulations of the basic technique also exist [Hidber 1999] that can terminate early, once results of the desired quality are achieved, and can be viewed as
anytime algorithms [Ramakrishnan and Grama 1999] due to their interruptibility and the monotonic improvement of the quality of the answer with time.
The trade-off at the center of the article is to maximize the controller builder's response value by ensuring its timeliness, at the expense of some degradation in the quality of the controller produced, in the manner of
anytime algorithms. The remaining trade-offs are to maximize the response value of the controller itself by minimizing controller response times (done by automatically decomposing controllers into multiple assimilation levels (i.e., occasionally tolerating some inattention; and to achieve this decomposition via the expenditure of additional processing power by the controller builder.
Anytime Algorithms for Multiagent Decision Making Using Coordination Graphs.
Optimal Schedules for Monitoring Anytime Algorithms. Artificial Intelligence 126(1-2): 63-108.
Monitoring and Control of Anytime Algorithms: A Dynamic Programming Approach.
His research interests include
anytime algorithms, decision theory, design of autonomous agents, heuristic search, information gathering, principles of metareasoning, planning and scheduling, reinforcement learning, and resource-bounded reasoning.