J. García, J. E. Flórez, A. Torralba, D. Borrajo, C. Linares López and A. García Olaya, Combining Linear Programming and Automated Planning to Solve Intermodal Transportation Problems. European Journal of Operational Research volume 227(1), pages 216-226, 2013. (PDF)
Conference Papers
R.Eifler, M. Steinmetz, A. Torralba and J. Hoffmann, Plan-Space Explanation via Plan-Property Dependencies: Faster Algorithms & More Powerful Properties, Proceedings of the 29th International ,Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'20), Yokohama, Japan 2020.
J. Wichlacz, D. Höller, A. Torralba and J. Hoffmann, Applying Monte-Carlo Tree Search in HTN Planning, Proceedings of the 13th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SOCS'20), 2020.
J. Gross, A. Torralba and M. Fickert, Novel Is Not Always Better: On the Relation between Novelty and Dominance Pruning, Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'20), New York City, USA 2020.(PDF) ( slides)
A. Torralba and S. Sievers, Merge-and-Shrink Task Reformulation for Classical Planning, Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'19), Macao, China 2019.(PDF)
S. Franco and A. Torralba Interleaving Search and Heuristic Improvement, Proceedings of the 12th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SOCS'19), Napa, CA, USA, 2019. (PDF)
D. Speck,
F. Geisser,
R. Mattmueller,
A. Torralba, Symbolic Planning with Axioms, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'19), Berkeley, CA, USA, 2019.(PDF)
M. Steinmetz,
A. Torralba, Bridging the Gap Between Abstractions and Critical-Path Heuristics via Hypergraphs, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'19), Berkeley, CA, USA, 2019. (PDF) (Technical Report)
D. Gnad,
A. Torralba,
M. Dominguez, C. Areces,
F. Bustos, Learning How to Ground a Plan - Partial Grounding in Classical Planning, Proceedings of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'19),
Honolulu, USA, 2019. (PDF)
D. Fišer,
A. Torralba,
A. Shleyfman, Operator Mutexes and Symmetries for Simplifying Planning Tasks, Proceedings of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'19),
Honolulu, USA, 2019. (PDF)
A. Torralba, Completeness-Preserving Dominance Techniques for Satisficing Planning, Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'18), Stockholm, Sweden, 2018.
(PDF)
A. Torralba, From Qualitative to Quantitative Dominance Pruning, Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'17), Melbourne, Australia, 2017.
(PDF) (HSDIP version) (slides)
S. Franco, A. Torralba, L. Lelis, and M. Barley, On Creating Complementary Pattern Databases, Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'17), Melbourne, Australia, 2017.(PDF)
D. Gnad,
A. Torralba,
A. Shleyfman,
and
J. Hoffmann, Symmetry
Breaking in Star-Topology Decoupled Search, Proceedings of the
27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
(ICAPS'17), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2017. (PDF)
(Technical Report)
D. Gnad, A. Torralba,
and J. Hoffmann, Symbolic Leaf Representation in Decoupled Search, Proceedings of the 10th Annual
Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SOCS'17), Pittsburgh, PA, USA,
2017. (PDF)
(Technical Report)
M.
Schwenger, A.
Torralba, J. Hoffmann, D.
Howcroft, and
V. Demberg, From OpenCCG to AI Planning: Detecting Infeasible Edges in Sentence
Generation. Proceedings of the 26th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling'16),
Osaka,
Japan. (PDF)
A. Torralba,
D. Gnad, P. Dubbert,
and
J. Hoffmann, On State-Dominance Criteria in Fork-Decoupled
Search, Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'16), New York, USA,
2016. (PDF)
(Technical
Report)
A. Torralba, C. Linares López and
D. Borrajo, Abstraction Heuristics for Symbolic Bidirectional
Search, Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'16), New York, USA,
2016. (PDF)
(Technical
Report)
J. Daum, A. Torralba,
J. Hoffmann, P. Haslum,
and I. Weber, Practical
Undoability Checking via Contingent Planning, Proceedings of
the 26th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
(ICAPS'16), London, UK, 2016. (PDF) (talk) Outstanding
student paper award.
A. Torralba
and J. Hoffmann, Simulation-Based Admissible Dominance Pruning, Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'15), Buenos Aires, Argentina,
2015. (PDF) (HSDIP version) (slides)
A. Torralba
and P. Kissmann, Focusing on What Really Matters: Irrelevance Pruning in Merge-and-Shrink. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Symposium on
Combinatorial Search (SOCS'15), Ein Gedi, Israel, 2015 (PDF) (slides) (talk) Best paper award.
V. Alcazar
and A. Torralba
A Reminder about the Importance of Computing and Exploiting
Invariants in Planning. Proceedings of the 25th International
Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'15),
Jerusalem, Israel,
2015. (PDF) (slides) ( talk)
S. Edelkamp, P. Kissmann and A. Torralba BDDs Strike Back (in AI Planning). Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'15),
Austin, Texas, USA, 2015. (PDF)
J. Hoffmann, P. Kissmann,
and Á. Torralba ``Distance''? Who Cares? Tailoring Merge-and-Shrink Heuristics to
Detect Unsolvability Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (ECAI'14), Prague, Czech Republic, August
2014. (PDF)
A. Torralba and V. Alcazar Constrained Symbolic Search: On Mutexes, BDD Minimization and More Proceedings of the 6th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search
(SOCS'13)(PDF) Best paper award.
A. Torralba, C. Linares López and
D. Borrajo Symbolic Merge-and-Shrink for Cost-Optimal Planning Proceedings of the 23nd International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'13) (PDF)
A. Torralba, S. Edelkamp, P. Kissmann Transition Trees for Cost-Optimal Symbolic Planning Proceedings of the 23d International Conference on Automated
Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'13) (PDF) (Talk)
S. Edelkamp, P. Kissmann, A. Torralba Symbolic A* Search with Pattern Databases and the Merge-and-Shrink Abstraction Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (ECAI'12)(PDF)
Á. Parra, A. Torralba, C. Linares López Precomputed-Direction Heuristics for Suboptimal Grid-Based Path-finding Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search
(SOCS'12) (PDF)
J. E. Flórez, A. Torralba, J. García,
C. Linares López, A. García Olaya, , D. Borrajo Planning Multi-Modal Transportation Problems Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Automated
Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'11) (PDF)
A. Torralba, C. Linares López Size-Independent Additive Pattern Databases for the Pancake Problem Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search
(SOCS'11) (PDF)
Parts of books
J. García, A. Torralba, J. E. Flórez, D. Borrajo, C. Linares López and A. García Olaya, TIMIPLAN: A Tool for Transportation Tasks Autonomic Road Transport Support Systems, Part of the series Autonomic Systems, Springer, pp. 269-285, May 2016. (PDF)
PhD Thesis
Symbolic Search and Abstraction Heuristics for Cost-Optimal Planning Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2015 Advisors: Daniel Borrajo Millán and Carlos Linares López Honorable Mention in ICAPS Best Dissertation Award 2016.
(PDF) (slides) (talk)
Workshop Papers:
J. Wichlacz, A. Torralba,
and J. Hoffmann, Construction-Planning Models in Minecraft, Proceedings of
the 2nd Workshop on Hierarchical Planning, at ICAPS'19. Berkeley, CA, USA, 2019. (PDF) (models)
Stefan Edelkamp, Peter Kissmann, Álvaro Torralba Lex-Partitioning: A New Option for BDD Search First Workshop on GRAPH Inspection and Traversal Engineering, GRAPHITE 2012
