The Intersection of Planning and Learning

Intelligent sequential decision making is a key challenge in artificial intelligence. The problem, commonly formalized as a Markov Decision Process, is studied in two different research communities: planning and reinforcement learning. Departing from a fundamentally different assumption about the type of access to the environment, both research...

Timely condition-based maintenance planning for multi-component systems

Last-minute maintenance planning is often undesirable, as it may cause downtime during operational hours, may require rescheduling of other activities, and does not allow to optimize the management of spare parts, material, and personnel. In spite of the aforementioned drawbacks of last-minute planning, most existing methods plan maintenance...