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Nathan R. Sturtevant

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

108

Venues

9

Active years

2000–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

108 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026AAAIA Parallel CPU-GPU Framework for Batching Heuristic Operations in Depth-First Heuristic Search.Ehsan Futuhi, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2025AAAISuboptimal Search with Dynamic Distribution of Suboptimality.Mohammadreza Hami, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2025AAAIAnchor Search: A Unified Framework for Suboptimal Bidirectional Search.Sepehr Lavasani, Lior Siag, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2025ICAPSParallelizing Multi-objective A* Search.Saman Ahmadi, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Andrea Raith, Daniel Harabor, Mahdi Jalili
2025IJCAISet-Based Retrograde Analysis: Precomputing the Solution to 28-card Bridge Double Dummy Deals.Isaac Stone, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Jonathan Schaeffer
2025SoCSSuboptimal Search with Dynamic Distribution of Suboptimality (Extended Abstract).Mohammadreza Hami, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2025SoCSPosition Paper: On the Impact of Direction-Selection in BAE.Shahaf S. Shperberg, Lior Siag, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner
2024ECAIOn Parallel External-Memory Bidirectional Search.Lior Siag, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2024ICAPSExact Multi-objective Path Finding with Negative Weights.Saman Ahmadi, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Daniel Harabor, Mahdi Jalili
2024SoCSCurriculum Generation for Learning Guiding Functions in State-Space Search Algorithms.Sumedh Pendurkar, Levi H. S. Lelis, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Guni Sharon
2024SoCSOn the Properties of All-Pair Heuristics.Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Lior Siag, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2024SoCSOn Parallel External-Memory Bidirectional Search (Extended Abstract).Lior Siag, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2024SoCSClique Analysis and Bypassing in Continuous-Time Conflict-Based Search.Thayne T. Walker, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner
2023AAAIAnalyzing and Improving the Use of the FastMap Embedding in Pathfinding Tasks.Reza Mashayekhi, Dor Atzmon, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2023IJCAIFront-to-End Bidirectional Heuristic Search with Consistent Heuristics: Enumerating and Evaluating Algorithms and Bounds.Lior Siag, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2023SoCSComparing Front-to-Front and Front-to-End Heuristics in Bidirectional Search.Lior Siag, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2022IJCAIEfficient Budgeted Graph Search.Jasmeet Kaur, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2022IJCAILearning Curricula for Humans: An Empirical Study with Puzzles from The Witness.Levi H. S. Lelis, Joo Gabriel Gama Vila Nova, Eugene Chen, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Carrie Demmans Epp, Michael Bowling
2022SoCSOptimal Search with Neural Networks: Challenges and Approaches.Tianhua Li, Ruimin Chen, Borislav Mavrin, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Doron Nadav, Ariel Felner
2021AAAINecessary and Sufficient Conditions for Avoiding Reopenings in Best First Suboptimal Search with General Bounding Functions.Jingwei Chen, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2021FDGTowards Disambiguating Quests as a Technical Term.Kristen K. Yu, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Matthew Guzdial
2021SoCSAvoiding Re-expansions in Suboptimal Best-First Search.Jingwei Chen, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2021SoCSIterative-Deepening Bidirectional Heuristic Search with Restricted Memory.Shahaf S. Shperberg, Steven Danishevski, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2020AAAIAbstraction and Refinement in Games with Dynamic Weighted Terrain.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Devon Sigurdson, Bjorn Taylor, Tim Gibson
2020AAAIGeneralized and Sub-Optimal Bipartite Constraints for Conflict-Based Search.Thayne T. Walker, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner
2020IJCAIMulti-Directional Heuristic Search.Dor Atzmon, Jiaoyang Li, Ariel Felner, Eliran Nachmani, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Sven Koenig
2020IJCAIBidirectional Heuristic Search: Expanding Nodes by a Lower Bound.Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Solomon Eyal Shimony, Avi Hayoun
2020SoCSMulti-Directional Search.Dor Atzmon, Jiaoyang Li, Ariel Felner, Eliran Nachmani, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Sven Koenig
2020SoCSA Guide to Budgeted Tree Search.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Malte Helmert
2019AAAIEnriching Non-Parametric Bidirectional Search Algorithms.Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Solomon Eyal Shimony, Avi Hayoun
2019AAAIExploring EPCG in The Witness.Nathan R. Sturtevant
2019IJCAIConditions for Avoiding Node Re-expansions in Bounded Suboptimal Search.Jingwei Chen, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2019IJCAIIterative Budgeted Exponential Search.Malte Helmert, Tor Lattimore, Levi H. S. Lelis, Laurent Orseau, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2019IJCAIDirection-Optimizing Breadth-First Search with External Memory Storage.Shuli Hu, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2019IJCAIOptimally Efficient Bidirectional Search.Eshed Shaham, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
2019SoCSRevisiting Suboptimal Search.Jingwei Chen, Nathan R. Sturtevant, William J. Doyle, Wheeler Ruml
2019SoCSImproving Bidirectional Heuristic Search by Bounds Propagation.Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Solomon Eyal Shimony, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Avi Hayoun
2019SoCSEnriching Non-Parametric Bidirectional Search Algorithms - Extended Abstract.Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Solomon Eyal Shimony, Avi Hayoun
2019SoCSMulti-Agent Pathfinding: Definitions, Variants, and Benchmarks.Roni Stern, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner, Sven Koenig, Hang Ma, Thayne T. Walker, Jiaoyang Li, Dor Atzmon, Liron Cohen, T. K. Satish Kumar, Roman Bartk, Eli Boyarski
2019SoCSUnbounded Sub-Optimal Conflict-Based Search in Complex Domains.Thayne T. Walker, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner
2018AAAIA Brief History and Recent Achievements in Bidirectional Search.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner
2018IJCAIExtended Increasing Cost Tree Search for Non-Unit Cost Domains.Thayne T. Walker, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner
2018SoCSRapid Randomized Restarts for Multi-Agent Path Finding Solvers.Liron Cohen, Glenn Wagner, David M. Chan, Howie Choset, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Sven Koenig, T. K. Satish Kumar
2018SoCSBenchmarks for Pathfinding in 3D Voxel Space.Daniel Brewer, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2018SoCSMinimizing Node Expansions in Bidirectional Search with Consistent Heuristics.Eshed Shaham, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
2017AAAIValue Compression of Pattern Databases.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner, Malte Helmert
2017AAAIThe State of the AIIDE Conference in 2017.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Brian Magerko
2017IJCAIFront-to-End Bidirectional Heuristic Search with Near-Optimal Node Expansions.Jingwei Chen, Robert C. Holte, Sandra Zilles, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2017IJCAIA Study of Forward Versus Backwards Endgame Solvers with Results in Chinese Checkers.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Abdallah Saffidine
2017SoCSSearch-Based Optimal Solvers for the Multi-Agent Pathfinding Problem: Summary and Challenges.Ariel Felner, Roni Stern, Solomon Eyal Shimony, Eli Boyarski, Meir Goldenberg, Guni Sharon, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Glenn Wagner, Pavel Surynek
2017SoCSOn Variable Dependencies and Compressed Pattern Databases.Malte Helmert, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner
2017SoCSThe Minimal Set of States that Must Be Expanded in a Front-to-End Bidirectional Search.Eshed Shaham, Ariel Felner, Jingwei Chen, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2016AAAIBidirectional Search That Is Guaranteed to Meet in the Middle.Robert C. Holte, Ariel Felner, Guni Sharon, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2016AAAICombining Bounding Boxes and JPS to Prune Grid Pathfinding.Steve Rabin, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2016IJCAIExternal Memory Bidirectional Search.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Jingwei Chen
2016IJCAICanonical Orderings on Grids.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Steve Rabin
2016SoCSExtended Abstract: An Improved Priority Function for Bidirectional Heuristic Search.Guni Sharon, Robert C. Holte, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2016SoCSGeneralizing JPS Symmetry Detection: Canonical Orderings on Graphs.Nathan R. Sturtevant
2015IJCAIChallenges and Progress on Using Large Lossy Endgame Databases in Chinese Checkers.Nathan R. Sturtevant
2015SoCSThe Grid-Based Path Planning Competition: 2014 Entries and Results.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Jason M. Traish, James R. Tulip, Tansel Uras, Sven Koenig, Ben Strasser, Adi Botea, Daniel Harabor, Steve Rabin
2014AAAIExponential Deepening A* for Real-Time Agent-Centered Search.Guni Sharon, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2014AAAIWorst-Case Solution Quality Analysis When Not Re-Expanding Nodes in Best-First Search.Richard Anthony Valenzano, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Jonathan Schaeffer
2014SoCSEstimating Search Tree Size with Duplicate Detection.Levi H. S. Lelis, Roni Stern, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2014SoCSExponential Deepening A* for Real-Time Agent-Centered Search.Guni Sharon, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2014SoCSReaching the Goal in Real-Time Heuristic Search: Scrubbing Behavior is Unavoidable.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Vadim Bulitko
2014SoCSExploiting the Rubik's Cube 12-Edge PDB by Combining Partial Pattern Databases and Bloom Filters.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner, Malte Helmert
2013AAAIPartial Domain Search Tree For Constraint-Satisfaction Problems.Guni Sharon, Ariel Felner, Roni Stern, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2013IJCAISubset Selection of Search Heuristics.D. Chris Rayner, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Michael Bowling
2013IJCAIUCT Enhancements in Chinese Checkers Using an Endgame Database.Max Roschke, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2013IJCAIMinimizing Writes in Parallel External Memory Search.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Matthew J. Rutherford
2013SoCSFinding Bounded Suboptimal Multi-Agent Path Planning Solutions Using Increasing Cost Tree Search (Extended Abstract).Faten Aljalaud, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2013SoCSOptimal-Generation Variants of EPEA.Meir Goldenberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Robert C. Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer
2013SoCSOnline Detection of Dead States in Real-Time Agent-Centered Search.Guni Sharon, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner
2012AAAIPartial-Expansion A* with Selective Node Generation.Ariel Felner, Meir Goldenberg, Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Tal Beja, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Jonathan Schaeffer, Robert Holte
2012AAAIConflict-Based Search For Optimal Multi-Agent Path Finding.Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2012AAAIConflict-Based Search for Optimal Multi-Agent Path Finding.Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2012AAAIHeuristic Search Comes of Age.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner, Maxim Likhachev, Wheeler Ruml
2012ECAIArvandHerd: Parallel Planning with a Portfolio.Richard Anthony Valenzano, Hootan Nakhost, Martin Mller, Jonathan Schaeffer, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2012MIGMoving Path Planning Forward.Nathan R. Sturtevant
2012SoCSPartial-Expansion A* with Selective Node Generation.Ariel Felner, Meir Goldenberg, Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Tal Beja, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Robert Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer
2012SoCSMeta-Agent Conflict-Based Search For Optimal Multi-Agent Path Finding.Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2012SoCSConflict-Based Search for Optimal Multi-Agent Path Finding.Guni Sharon, Roni Stern, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2011AAAIThe Compressed Differential Heuristic.Meir Goldenberg, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner, Jonathan Schaeffer
2011AAAIEuclidean Heuristic Optimization.D. Chris Rayner, Michael H. Bowling, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2011IJCAILearning Where You Are Going and from Whence You Came: h- and g-Cost Learning in Real-Time Heuristic Search.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Vadim Bulitko
2011SoCSThe Compressed Differential Heuristic.Meir Goldenberg, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner, Jonathan Schaeffer
2011SoCSA Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Non-Optimal Multi-Agent Pathfinding.Mokhtar M. Khorshid, Robert C. Holte, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2011SoCSDistance Learning in Agent-Centered Heuristic Search.Nathan R. Sturtevant
2010AAAISingle-Frontier Bidirectional Search.Ariel Felner, Carsten Moldenhauer, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Jonathan Schaeffer
2010AAAIUnderstanding the Success of Perfect Information Monte Carlo Sampling in Game Tree Search.Jeffrey Richard Long, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Michael Buro, Timothy Furtak
2010FDGImplementing games on pinball machines.Daniel Wong, Darren Earl, Fred Zyda, Ryan Zink, Sven Koenig, Allen Pan, Selby Shlosberg, Jaspreet Singh, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2010SoCSPortal-Based True-Distance Heuristics for Path Finding.Meir Goldenberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Jonathan Schaeffer
2010SoCSSingle-Frontier Bidirectional Search.Carsten Moldenhauer, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Jonathan Schaeffer
2010SoCSSimultaneously Searching with Multiple Settings: An Alternative to Parameter Tuning for Suboptimal Single-Agent Search Algorithms.Richard Anthony Valenzano, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Jonathan Schaeffer, Karen Buro, Akihiro Kishimoto
2009ICMLLearning when to stop thinking and do something!Barnabs Pczos, Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori, Csaba Szepesvri, Russell Greiner, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2009IJCAITBA*: Time-Bounded A*.Yngvi Bjrnsson, Vadim Bulitko, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2009IJCAIImproving State Evaluation, Inference, and Search in Trick-Based Card Games.Michael Buro, Jeffrey Richard Long, Timothy Furtak, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2009IJCAIEvaluating Strategies for Running from the Cops.Carsten Moldenhauer, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2009IJCAIMemory-Based Heuristics for Explicit State Spaces.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner, Max Barer, Jonathan Schaeffer, Neil Burch
2009IJCAIA* Search with Inconsistent Heuristics.Zhifu Zhang, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Robert C. Holte, Jonathan Schaeffer, Ariel Felner
2008SIGCSEMultidisciplinary students and instructors: a second-year games course.Nathan R. Sturtevant, H. James Hoover, Jonathan Schaeffer, Sean Gouglas, Michael H. Bowling, Finnegan Southey, Matthew Bouchard, Ghassan Zabaneh
2007AAAIInconsistent Heuristics.Uzi Zahavi, Ariel Felner, Jonathan Schaeffer, Nathan R. Sturtevant
2006AAAIProb-Maxn: Playing N-Player Games with Opponent Models.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Martin Zinkevich, Michael H. Bowling
2005AAAISpeeding Up Learning in Real-time Search via Automatic State Abstraction.Vadim Bulitko, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Maryia Kazakevich
2005AAAIPartial Pathfinding Using Map Abstraction and Refinement.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Michael Buro
2005IJCAILeaf-Value Tables for Pruning Non-Zero-Sum Games.Nathan R. Sturtevant
2003IJCAILast-Branch and Speculative Pruning Algorithms for MaxNathan R. Sturtevant
2000AAAIOn Pruning Techniques for Multi-Player Games.Nathan R. Sturtevant, Richard E. Korf