Alvaro Torralba

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Alvaro Torralba

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5352-2529

  • Selma Lagerløfs Vej 300, 1-2-46

    9220 Aalborg Ø

    Denmark

20112024

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  • 2011

    Planning Multi-Modal Transportation Problems.

    Flórez, J. E., Reyna, Á. T. A. D., Javier, G., López, C. L., Olaya, A. G. & Borrajo, D., 2011.

    Research output: Contribution to conference without publisher/journal › Paper without publisher/journal › Research › peer-review

  • Size-independent additive pattern databases for the pancake problem

    De Reyna, Á. T. A. & López, C. L., 2011, Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2011. p. 164-171 8 p. (Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2011).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    2 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2012

    Lex-Partitioning - A New Option for BDD Search

    Edelkamp, S., Kissmann, P. & Torralba, Á., 2012, p. 66-82.

    Research output: Contribution to conference without publisher/journal › Paper without publisher/journal › Research › peer-review

  • Precomputed-direction heuristics for suboptimal grid-based path-finding

    Parra, Á., Torralba, Á. & López, C. L., 2012, Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2012. AAAI Press, p. 211-212 2 p. (Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2012).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

  • Solving multi-modal and uni-modal transportation problems through TIMIPlan

    García, J., Torralba, A., García-Olaya, Á., Flórez, J. E. & Borrajo, D., 2012, Control in Transportation Systems 2012 - Preprints of the 13th IFAC Symposium CTS 2012. 24 ed. IFAC Secretariat, p. 203-208 6 p. (IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline); No. 24, Vol. 45).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    3 Citations (Scopus)

  • Symbolic A* search with pattern databases and the merge-and-shrink abstraction

    Edelkamp, S., Kissmann, P. & Torralba, Á., 2012, ECAI 2012 - 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 27-31 August 2012, Montpellier, France - Including Prestigious Applications of Artificial Intelligence (PAIS-2012) System Demonstration. IOS Press, p. 306-311 6 p. (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 242).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    16 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2013

    Combining linear programming and automated planning to solve intermodal transportation problems

    García, J., Florez, J. E., Torralba, Á., Borrajo, D., López, C. L., García-Olaya, Á. & Sáenz, J., 16 May 2013, In: European Journal of Operational Research. 227, 1, p. 216-226 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

    27 Citations (Scopus)

  • Constrained symbolic search: On mutexes, BDD minimization and more

    Torralba, Á. & Alcázar, V., 2013, Sixth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search. AAAI Press, p. 175-183 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    18 Citations (Scopus)

  • Symbolic merge-and-shrink for cost-optimal planning

    Torralba, Á., López, C. L. & Borrajo, D., 2013, IJCAI 2013 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. p. 2394-2400 7 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    11 Citations (Scopus)

  • Transition trees for cost-optimal symbolic planning

    Torralba, Á., Edelkamp, S. & Kissmann, P., 2013, ICAPS 2013 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. AAAI Press, p. 206-214 9 p. (ICAPS 2013 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    11 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2014

    Distance? Who cares? Tailoring merge-and-shrink heuristics to detect unsolvability

    Hoffmann, J., Kissmann, P. & Torralba, Á., 2014, ECAI 2014 - 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Including Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems, PAIS 2014, Proceedings. Schaub, T., Friedrich, G. & O'Sullivan, B. (eds.). IOS Press, p. 441-446 6 p. (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 263).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    24 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2015

    A reminder about the importance of computing and exploiting invariants in planning

    Alcázar, V. & Torralba, Á., 2015, ICAPS 2015 - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. Haslum, P., Domshlak, C., Brafman, R. & Zilberstein, S. (eds.). AAAI Press, p. 2-6 5 p. (Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS, Vol. 2015-January).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    40 Citations (Scopus)

  • BDDs strike back (in AI planning)

    Edelkamp, S., Kissmann, P. & Torralba, Á., 1 Jun 2015, Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2015 and the 27th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2015. The Foundation for Open Access Statistics, p. 4320-4321 2 p. (Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 6).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    12 Citations (Scopus)

  • Focusing on what really matters: Irrelevance pruning in merge-and-shrink

    Torralba, Á. & Kissmann, P., 2015, Proceedings of the 8th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2015. Lelis, L. & Stern, R. (eds.). AAAI Press, p. 122-130 9 p. (Proceedings of the 8th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2015, Vol. 2015-January).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    9 Citations (Scopus)

  • Simulation-based admissible dominance pruning

    Torralba, Á. & Hoffmann, J., 2015, IJCAI 2015 - Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Wooldridge, M. & Yang, Q. (eds.). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, p. 1689-1695 7 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2015-January).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    18 Citations (Scopus)

  • Symbolic Search and Abstraction Heuristics for Cost-Optimal Planning

    Torralba, A., 2015

    Research output: PhD thesis

  • 2016

    Abstraction heuristics for symbolic bidirectional search

    Torralba, A., Lopez, C. L. & Borrajo, D., 2016, In: IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2016-January, p. 3272-3278 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article in Journal › Research › peer-review

    19 Citations (Scopus)

  • From OpenCCG to AI planning: Detecting infeasible edges in sentence generation

    Schwenger, M., Torralba, A., Hoffmann, J., Howcroft, D. M. & Demberg, V., 2016, COLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology, p. 1524-1534 11 p. (COLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016: Technical Papers).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    2 Citations (Scopus)

  • On state-dominance criteria in fork-decoupled search

    Torralba, A., Gnad, D., Dubbert, P. & Hoffmann, J., 2016, In: IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2016-January, p. 3265-3271 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article in Journal › Research › peer-review

    4 Citations (Scopus)

  • Practical undoability checking via contingent planning

    Daum, J., Torralba, Á., Hoffmann, J., Haslum, P. & Weber, I., 2016, In: Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS. 2016-January, p. 106-114 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article in Journal › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    16 Citations (Scopus)

  • Search Challenges in Natural Language Generation with Complex Optimization Objectives

    Demberg, V., Hoffmann, J., Howcroft, D. M., Klakow, D. & Torralba, Á., 1 Feb 2016, In: KI - Kunstliche Intelligenz. 30, 1, p. 63-69 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

    6 Citations (Scopus)

  • Using AI Planning Techniques in OpenCCG: Detecting Infeasible Composites in Sentence Generation

    Schwenger, M., Torralba, A., Hoffmann, J., Howcroft, D. & Demberg, V., 2016, KI 2016 - OGAI-Tagung 2016, 30. PuK-Workshop: Planen/Scheduling und Konfigurieren/Entwerfen. Sauer, J., Edelkamp, S. & Schattenberg, B. (eds.). Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), p. 4-16 13 p. (KI 2016 - OGAI-Tagung 2016, 30. PuK-Workshop: Planen/Scheduling und Konfigurieren/Entwerfen).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

  • 2017

    Efficient symbolic search for cost-optimal planning

    Torralba, Á., Alcázar, V., Kissmann, P. & Edelkamp, S., 1 Jan 2017, In: Artificial Intelligence. 242, p. 52-79 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

    38 Citations (Scopus)

  • From qualitative to quantitative dominance pruning for optimal planning

    Torralba, Á., 2017, 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017. Sierra, C. (ed.). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, p. 4426-4432 7 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 0).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    7 Citations (Scopus)

  • On creating complementary pattern databases

    Franco, S., Torralba, Á., Lelis, L. H. S. & Barley, M., 2017, 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017. Sierra, C. (ed.). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, p. 4302-4309 8 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 0).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    20 Citations (Scopus)

  • Symbolic leaf representation in decoupled search

    Gnad, D., Torralba, Á. & Hoffmann, J., 2017, Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SOCS 2017, 16-17 June 2017, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. AAAI Press, p. 124-128 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    4 Citations (Scopus)

  • Symmetry breaking in star-topology decoupled search

    Gnad, D., Torralba, Á., Shleyfman, A. & Hoffmann, J., 2017, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS 2017. Barbulescu, L., Smith, S. F., Mausam & Frank, J. D. (eds.). AAAI Press, p. 125-134 10 p. (Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    12 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2018

    Completeness-preserving dominance techniques for satisficing planning

    Torralba, Á., 2018, Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2018. Lang, J. (ed.). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, p. 4844-4851 8 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2018-July).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    4 Citations (Scopus)

  • Symbolic perimeter abstraction heuristics for cost-optimal planning

    Torralba, Á., Linares López, C. & Borrajo, D., Jun 2018, In: Artificial Intelligence. 259, p. 1-31 31 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

    7 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2019

    Bridging the gap between abstractions and critical-path heuristics via hypergraphs

    Steinmetz, M. & Torralba, Á., 2019, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS 2019. Benton, J., Lipovetzky, N., Onaindia, E., Smith, D. E. & Srivastava, S. (eds.). AAAI Press, p. 473-481 9 p. (Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    1 Citation (Scopus)

  • Interleaving search and heuristic improvement

    Franco, S. & Torralba, Á., 2019, Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2019. Surynek, P. & Yeoh, W. (eds.). AAAI Press, p. 130-134 5 p. (Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2019).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    2 Citations (Scopus)

  • Learning how to ground a plan - partial grounding in classical planning

    Gnad, D., Torralba, Á., Domínguez, M., Areces, C. & Bustos, F., 2019, 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2019, 31st Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2019 and the 9th AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2019. AAAI Press, p. 7602-7609 8 p. (33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2019, 31st Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2019 and the 9th AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2019).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    17 Citations (Scopus)

  • Merge-and-shrink task reformulation for classical planning

    Torralba, Á. & Sievers, S., 2019, Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2019. Kraus, S. (ed.). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, p. 5644-5652 9 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2019-August).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    2 Citations (Scopus)

  • Operator mutexes and symmetries for simplifying planning tasks

    Fišer, D., Torralba, Á. & Shleyfman, A., 2019, 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2019, 31st Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2019 and the 9th AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2019. AAAI Press, p. 7586-7593 8 p. (33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2019, 31st Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2019 and the 9th AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2019).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
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    8 Citations (Scopus)
    18 Downloads (Pure)

  • Symbolic planning with axioms

    Speck, D., Geißer, F., Mattmüller, R. & Torralba, Á., 2019, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS 2019. Benton, J., Lipovetzky, N., Onaindia, E., Smith, D. E. & Srivastava, S. (eds.). AAAI Press, p. 464-472 9 p. (Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    3 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2020

    Applying monte-carlo tree search in HTN planning

    Wichlacz, J., Höller, D., Torralba, Á. & Hoffmann, J., 2020, Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2020. Harabor, D. & Vallati, M. (eds.). The AAAI Press, p. 82-90 9 p. (Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2020).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    3 Citations (Scopus)

  • Generating Instructions at Different Levels of Abstraction

    Köhn, A., Wichlacz, J., Torralba, A., Höller, D., Hoffmann, J. & Koller, A., 2020, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. International Committee on Computational Linguistics, p. 2802-2813

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
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    4 Citations (Scopus)
    35 Downloads (Pure)

  • MC-Saar-Instruct - a Platform for Minecraft Instruction Giving Agents.

    Köhn, A., Wichlacz, J., Schäfer, C., Torralba, Á., Hoffmann, J. & Koller, A., 2020, Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology, p. 53-56

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    5 Citations (Scopus)

  • Novel Is Not Always Better - On the Relation between Novelty and Dominance Pruning.

    Gross, J., Torralba, Á. & Fickert, M., 2020, Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Press, p. 9875-9882

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    2 Citations (Scopus)

  • Planning in the Browser

    Tran, N., Speicher, P., Kuennemann, R., Backes, M., Torralba, A. & Hoffmann, J., 2020, System Demonstration at the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'20), October 2020. 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Plan-space explanation via plan-property dependencies: Faster algorithms & more powerful properties

    Eifler, R., Steinmetz, M., Torralba, Á. & Hoffmann, J., 2020, Proceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2020. Bessiere, C. (ed.). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, p. 4091-4097 7 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2021-January).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    9 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2021

    Automatic Instance Generation for Classical Planning

    Torralba, A., Seipp, J. & Sievers, S., 17 May 2021, Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 21). 1 ed. Palo Alto: AAAI Press, Vol. 31. p. 376-384 9 p. (Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    12 Citations (Scopus)

  • Faster Stackelberg Planning via Symbolic Search and Information Sharing

    Torralba, A., Speicher, P., Künnemann, R., Steinmetz, M. & Hoffmann, J., 18 May 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 13 ed. Palo Alto: AAAI Press, Vol. 35. p. 11998-12006

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    6 Citations (Scopus)

  • On the Optimal Efficiency of A* with Dominance Pruning

    Torralba, A., 18 May 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Press, p. 12007-12014 (Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; No. 13, Vol. 35).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    1 Citation (Scopus)

  • Pattern Databases for Goal-Probability Maximization in Probabilistic Planning

    Klößner, T., Hoffmann, J., Steinmetz, M. & Torralba, A., 17 May 2021, Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling . AAAI Press, p. 201-209 8 p. (Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS, Vol. 31).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    2 Citations (Scopus)

  • Polynomial-Time in PDDL Input Size: Making the Delete Relaxation Feasible for Lifted Planning

    Lauer, P., Torralba, A., Fišer, D., Höller, D., Wichlacz, J. & Hoffmann, J., Jul 2021, Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. IJCAI-21. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, p. 4119-4126

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    17 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2022

    Additive Pattern Databases for Decoupled Search

    Sievers, S., Gnad, D. & Torralba, A., 17 Jul 2022, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search . 1 ed. The AAAI Press, Vol. 15. p. 180-189 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

  • Beyond Stars - Generalized Topologies for Decoupled Search

    Gnad, D., Torralba, A. & Fišer, D., 13 Jun 2022, Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS 2022. Kumar, A., Thiebaux, S., Varakantham, P. & Yeoh, W. (eds.). AAAI Press, Vol. 32. p. 110-118 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    1 Citation (Scopus)

  • Homomorphisms of Lifted Planning Tasks: The Case for Delete-free Relaxation Heuristics

    Horčík, R., Fišer, D. & Torralba, A., Jun 2022, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 36. AAAI Press, Vol. 36/9.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

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    2 Citations (Scopus)
    36 Downloads (Pure)

  • NetStack: A Game Approach to Synthesizing Consistent Network Updates

    Schmid, S., Schrenk, B. C. & Torralba, A., 2022, 2022 IFIP Networking Conference, IFIP Networking 2022. IEEE, (2022 IFIP Networking Conference, IFIP Networking 2022).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review

    4 Citations (Scopus)