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New Mexico State University computer science doctorate students Khoi Nguyen and Vien Tran observe associate professor of computer science Son Tran and professor of computer science Enrico Pontelli while they work on the computer.
Research team receives international recognition
A team of two New Mexico State University computer science doctorate students and two professors received a superior rating in the International Conference of Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) for the creation of a computer system to augment artificial intelligence research to solve more problems.
Students Vien Tran and Khoi Nguyen and NMSU professor of computer science Enrico Pontelli and associate professor of computer science Son Cao Tran worked on a problem throughout 2008 and received news of the results at the ICAPS bi-annual conference held in Australia in September 2008.
The primary goal of ICAPS is to further the field of automated planning and scheduling by promoting the involvement of young scientists in the field of computer sciences.
Planning problems such as the one the teams worked on are “notoriously hard with an infinite sequence of actions,” and to be recognized for finding a working solution to it could be compared to receiving a medal in the Olympics, Pontelli said.
“We strongly believe that our system has novel features and adopts new principles that put it ahead of what other researchers have been working on. The competition proved we were right,” Pontelli said.
The team participated in one of the most challenging tracks by developing a planning system that was rated by judges as “superior,” allowing for the system to solve more complex problems than other systems in the competition.
The team has been invited to write a paper presenting their findings for a computer science journal.