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 NEW Computational
Sustainability: Computational Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy,
and Society. Carla Gomes. The Bridge, National Academy of Engineering, Volume 39,
Number 4, Winter 2009. PDF.
The Science of Constraints.
Carla Gomes and Bart Selman. Constraint
Programming Letters. 2007. PDF
Model Counting. Carla P.
Gomes, Ashish Sabharwal and Bart Selman Handbook
of Satisfiability, IOS Press. Editors: Armin Biere, Marijn Heule,
Hans van Maaren, and Toby Walsh. Chapter 20, pp 633-654, 2009. 2007. PDF (draft)
Exploiting Runtime Variation in
Complete Solvers. Carla P. Gomes and Ashish Sabharwal Handbook of Satisfiability,
IOS Press. Editors: Armin Biere, Marijn Heule, Hans van Maaren, and Toby
Walsh. Chapter 20, pp 633-654, 2009. PDF (draft)
Satisfiability Solvers. Carla
Gomes, Heny Kautz, Ashish Sabharwal, and Bart Selman. Handbook of Knowledge
Representation. 2007. PDF
Randomness and Structure.
Carla Gomes and Toby Walsh. Handbook
of Constraint Programming, F. Rossi, P. van Beek, T. Walsh (eds.),
Elsevier, 2006. Abstract PDF
Approximation Algorithms.
Carla Gomes and Ryan Williams. Introduction to Optimization, Decision
Support and Search Methodologies,Burke and Kendall (Eds.),Kluwer, 2005.
PDF
Complete
Randomized Backtrack Search. Carla Gomes. In Constraint and Integer
Programming: Toward a Unified Methodology, Milano, M., (ed.), Kluwer, 2003,
233-283. PDF
Hill Climbing Search. Bart
Selman and Carla Gomes. In Nature Encyclopedia of Cognition,
Nature Publ., 2002. PDF
Can Get Satisfaction. Carla Gomes and Bart Selman.
Nature Vol.
435, June 9, 2005, 751--752. (News & Views article). PDF
Science News article
by Ivars Peterson. "Completing
Latin Squares"
Recent Papers
Computational
Sustainability
Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for
a Sustainable Environment, Economy, and Society. Carla Gomes. The Bridge, National Academy of Engineering, Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 2009. PDF.
NEW The Steiner Multigraph Problem: Wildlife
Corridor Design for Multiple Species. Katherine Lai, Carla Gomes,
Michael Schwartz, Kevin McKelvey, David Calkin, and Claire Montgomery. Proceedings of the
Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Special Track on
Computational Sustainability and AI. (AAAI-11) 2011. PDF.
Playing Games against Nature:
Optimal Policies for Renewable Resource Allocation. Stefano Ermon, Jon Conrad,
Carla Gomes, and Bart Selman. UAI2010. Proceedings of the 16th
Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2010. PDF
Bayesian Classification of Flight
Calls with a novel Dynamic Time Warping Kernel. Theo Damoulas, Sam Henry,
Andrew Farnsworth, Michael Lanzone and Carla Gomes. 9th
International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Washington,
ICMLA 2010. 2010.
Maximizing Spread of Cascades Using
Network Design. Daniel
Sheldon, Bistra Dilkina, Adam Elmachtoub, Ryan Finseth, Ashish Sabharwal, Jon
Conrad, Carla Gomes, David Shmoys, Will Allen, Ole Amundsen, William Vaughan.
UAI2010. Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Uncertainty in
Artificial Intelligence, 2010.
PDF
Solving Connected Subgraph Problems
in Wildlife Conservation. Bistra Dilkina and Carla Gomes.
CPAIOR2010. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on on
Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for
Combinatorial Optimization Problems, ,Bologna, Italy, 2010. PDF
An Empirical Study of Optimization
for Maximizing Diffusion in Networks . Kiyan Ahmadizadeh, Bistra
Dilkina, Carla P. Gomes, Ashish Sabharwal . CP2010. Proceedings of
the 16th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming, ,St.
Andrews, Scotland, 2010. PDF
Incorporating Economic and
Ecological Information into the Optimal Design of Wildlife Corridors. Jon Conrad, Carla Gomes,
Willem van Hoeve, Ashish Sabharwal, and Jordan Suter. Computing and
Information Science Technical Reports,URI:http://hdl.handle.net/1813/17053. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,
2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/17053
Connection in Networks: Hardness of
Feasibility versus Optimality. Jon Conrad, Carla Gomes,
Willem van Hoeve, Ashish Sabharwal, and Jordan Suter. CPAIOR07.
Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR
Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Brussels, Belgium, May 2007. PDF
Spatially-Balanced Complete Block
Designs for Field Experiments Harold van Es, Carla Gomes, Meinolf Sellmann, and
Cindy van Es. Geoderma Journal, Vol. 140 (2007) 346--352. PDF
The Challenge of Generating Spatially Balanced
Scientific Experiment Designs Carla Gomes, Meinolf
Sellmann, Cindy van Es, and Harold van Es. In Proc. of Conf. on
Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for
Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CP-AI-OR '04), 2004. Postscript PDF
Other topics
Computing the Density of States of
Boolean Formulas. Stefano
Ermon, Carla Gomes, and Bart Selman. CP2010. Proceedings of the 16th
International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming, St.
Andrews, Scotland, 2010. PDF SLIDES (Best Student Paper Award).
Learning Optimal Subsets with
Implicit User Preferences. Yunsong Guo and Carla Gomes. IJCAI09.
Proceedings of the 21th International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, Pasadena,
US, 2009. PDF
Ranking Structured Documents: A
Large Margin Based Approach for Patent Prior Art Search. Yunsong Guo and Carla Gomes.
IJCAI09. Proceedings of the 21th International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, Pasadena,
US, India, 2009. PDF
Backdoors to Combinatorial
Optimization: Feasibility and Optimality. Bistra Dilkina, Carla P.
Gomes, Yuri Malitski, Ashish Sabharwal, Meinolf Sell mann. CPAIOR09.
Proc. of the International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques
in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Pittsburgh, May 2009. PDF
Backdoors in the Context of
Learning. Bistra
Dilkina, Carla P. Gomes, Ashish Sabharwal. SAT-09. Proceedings of
the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability
Testing, June 2009. PDF
A generative power-law search tree
model. Alda
Carvalho, Nuno Crato, and Carla Gomes. Computers and Operations
Research. Volume 36, Issue 8, 2009. PDF
Integrating Systematic and Local
Search Paradigms: A New Strategy for MaxSAT. Lukas Kroc, Ashish Sabharwal, Carla
P. Gomes, and Bart Selman. IJCAI09. Proceedings of the 21th
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pasadena, US, India, 2009. PDF
The Impact of Network Topology on
Pure Nash Equilibria in Graphical Games. Bistra Dilkina, Carla Gomes,
and Ashish Sabharwal. AAAI-07. 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, July 2007. (Nominated for Best Paper Award). PDF
Counting CSP Solutions Using
Generalized XOR Constraints. Carla Gomes, Willem van Hoeve, Ashish Sabharwal,
and Bart Selman. AAAI-07. Proceedings of the 22nd National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, Jul 2007. PDF
From Sampling to Model
Counting. Carla
Gomes, Ashish Sabharwal, and Bart Selman. IJCAI07. Proceedings of
the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India, Jan 2007.
(Nominated for Best Paper Award). PDF
Optimal Multi-Agent Scheduling with
Constraint Programming. Willem van Hoeve, Carla Gomes, Michele Lombardi,
and Bart Selman. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on
Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI 2007), 2007. PDF
Tradeoffs in the Complexity of
Backdoor Detection. Bistra
Dilkina, Carla Gomes, and Ashish Sabharwal. Proc. 13th International
Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Providence,
RI, Sep 2007. PDF
Model Counting: A New Strategy for
Obtaining Good Bounds. Carla
Gomes, Ashish Sabharwal, and Bart Selman. AAAI-06. Proceedings of
the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp 54-61,
Boston, MA, Jul 2006. (Best Paper Award). PDF Slides
Near-Uniform Sampling of
Combinatorial Spaces Using XOR Constraints. Carla Gomes, Ashish Sabharwal,
and Bart Selman. NIPS-06. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference
on Neural Information Processing Systems. Vancouver, B. C., Dec 2006. PDF
QBF Modeling: Exploiting Player
Symmetry for Simplicity and Efficiency Ashish Sabharwal, Carlos
Ansotegui, Carla Gomes, Justin Hart, and Bart Selman. SAT-06.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Theory and Applications of
Satisfiability Testing, LNCS, volume 4121, pp 382-395, Seattle, WA, Aug
2006. PDF
Structure and Problem Hardness: Goal
Asymmetry and DPLL Proofs in Sat-Based Planning Joerg Hoffmann, Carla Gomes,
and Bart Selman. ICAPS-06. Proceedings of International Conference
on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Cumbria, UK, June 2006. PDF
The Impact of Balancing on Problem
Hardness in a Highly Structured Domain Carlos Ansotegui, Ramon Bejar,
Cesar Fernandez, Carla Gomes, and Carles Mateu SAT-06. Proceedings
of the 9th International Conference on Theory and Applications of
Satisfiability Testing, LNCS, volume 4121, Seattle, WA, Aug 2006. (This
paper studies the hardness of Generalized Sudoku). PDF
The Power of Semidefinite
Programming Relaxations for MAXSAT. Carla Gomes, Willem van Hoeve, and Lucian Leahu.
Proc. of Conference on Integration of AI/OR Techniques (CPAIOR 2006),
2006. PDF
Statistical Regimes Across
Constrainedness Regions. Carla Gomes, Cesar Fernandez, Bart Selman, and
Christian Bessiere. Constraints (extended version of conference
version). 2005. Postscript
PDF.
Achilles' Heel of QBF. Carlos Ansotegui, Carla Gomes,
and Bart Selman. Proc. AAAI, 2005. PDF.
Can Get Satisfaction. Carla Gomes and Bart Selman.
Nature Vol.
435, June 9, 2005, 751--752. (News & Views article). PDF
Sensor networks and distributed CSP:
Communication, Computation and Complexity. Ramon Bejar, Carmel Dohmslak,
C. Fernandez, C. Gomes, B. Krishnamachari, B. Selman, and M. Valls. Artificial
Intelligence Journal, Vol. 161(1/2), 2005, 117-147. PDF
Approximations and Randomization to
Boost CSP Technique. Carla
Gomes and David Shmoys.
Annals of Operations Research. Vol 130 (1), Aug.
2004, 117--141 PDF
Statistical Regimes Across
Constrainedness Regions Carla Gomes, Cesar Fernandez, Bart Selman, and
Christian Bessiere. In Proc. of 10th Conf. on
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-04) 2004. Postscript PDF SLIDES
Distinguished Paper Award.
An Improved Approximation for the
Partial Latin Square Extension Problem. Carla Gomes, Rommel
Regis, and David Shmoys. InOperations Research Letters 2004.
PDF
Streamlined Constrained Reasoning.
Carla Gomes and Meinolf Sellmann. In Proc. of 10th Conf.
on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-04) 2004. Postscript PDF
Quality of LP-based Approximations
for Highly Combinatorial Problems. Lucian Leahu and Carla Gomes.
In Proc. of 10th Conf. on Principles and Practice of
Constraint Programming (CP-04) 2004. Postscript PDF
Cardinality Matrix Constraint. Jean-Charles Regin and Carla
Gomes. In Proc. of 10th Conf. on Principles and
Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-04) 2004. Postscript PDF
An Improved Approximation for the
Partial Latin Square Extension Problem. Carla Gomes, Rommel
Regis, and David Shmoys. In Proceeding of the ACM-SIAM Symposium on
Discrete Algorithms (SODA-2003), Baltimore, MD, 2003. Postscript PDF
Backdoors
to Typical Case Complexity. Ryan Williams, Carla Gomes, and Bart Selman. In
Proc. IJCAI 2003. Further results presented at AAAS-04. PDF
On
the Connections between Heavy-tails, Backdoors, and Restarts in Combinatorial
search. Ryan
Williams, Carla Gomes, and Bart Selman. In Proc. SAT 2003.
PDF
Satisfied with Physics. Carla Gomes and Bart Selman.
Science, Vol. 287, 784-785, Aug 02, 2002. PDF
The Promise of LP to Boost CSP
Techniques for Combinatorial Problems. Carla Gomes and David Shmoys.
In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Integration of AI
and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization
Problems (CP-AI-OR '02), 291-305, Le Croisic, France, 291-305, March
2002. Postscript PDF
Dynamic Restart Policies. Henry
Kautz, Eric Horvitz, Yongshao Ruan, Carla Gomes, and Bart Selman. Proceedings
of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-02), Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada, 2002, 674-682. Postscript
PDF
Completing Quasigroups or Latin
Squares: A Structured Graph Coloring Problem. Carla Gomes and David Shmoys.
In Proceedings of the Computational Symposium on Graph Coloring and
Extensions, 2002. PDF Postscript
Communication
and Computation in DisCSP Algorithms. Cesar Fernandez, Ramon Bejar,
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, and Carla Gomes. In Proceedings of
the Eighth Conference on Principles and Practices of Constraint Programming
(CP-02) 2002. Postscript PDF
Formal
Models of Heavy-tailed Behavior in Combinatorial Search. Hubie Chen, Carla Gomes, and Bart
Selman. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Principles
and Practices of Constraint Programming (CP-01) 2001. Postscript PDF
On
the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research. Carla Gomes. Journal of Knowledge
Engineering Review, Cambridge Press, Vol.16 1, 2001, 1-6.
Algorithm
Portfolios. Carla Gomes and Bart Selman.
Artificial Intelligence Journal, Vol. 126, 2001, 43-62. Postscript PDF
Capturing
the Structure of Satisfiability. Ramon Bejar, Alba Cabiscol,
Cesar Fernandez, Felip Manya, and Carla Gomes. Proceedings
of Seventh Intl. Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming (CP-2001), 2001, 137-153.
Extending
the Reach of Proof Planning by Randomization and Restart Strategies. Andreas Meier, Carla Gomes, and
Erica Melis. IJCAR, 2001.
Balance and Filtering in Structured
Satisfiable Problems. Henry Kautz,
Yongshao Ruan, Dimitris Achlioptas, Carla Gomes, Bart Selman, and Mark
Stickel. Proceedings
of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-2001),
Seattle, 2001.PDF
A
Bayesian Approach to Tackling Hard Computational Problems. Eric Horvitz, Yongshao Ruan, Carla
Gomes, Henry Kautz, Bart Selman, and Mark Chickering. Proceedings
17th Conf. on Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2001),
Seattle, 2001.
An
Application of Randomization and Restarts in Proof Planning. Andreas Meier, Carla Gomes, and
Erica Melis. Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Planning
(ECP-01), Toledo, Spain, 2001.
Generating
Hard Feasible Schedules. Carlos Argelich, Ramon Bejar, Alba Cabiscol, Cesar
Fernandez, Felip Manya, and Carla Gomes. Proceedings
of the 6th European Conference on Planning (ECP-01), Toledo, Spain, 2001.
Structure,
Duality, and Randomization --- Common Themes in AI and OR. Carla Gomes. Invited Talk, Proceedings of the Seventeenth
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-00), Austin, TX, 2000.
(Written version of invited plenary talk.). Postscript PDF
Generating
Satisfiable Instances. Dimitris Achlioptas, Carla Gomes, Henry Kautz, and
Bart Selman. In Proceedings
of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI-00), Austin, TX, 2000. Postscript
PDF
Heavy-Tailed
Phenomena in Satisfiability and Constraint Satisfaction Problems. Carla Gomes, Bart Selman, Nuno
Crato, and Henry Kautz. Journal of Automated Reasoning, Vol.
24(1/2), pages 67-100, 2000. PDF
Hybrid
Strategies for Heterogeneous Search Spaces. Carla Gomes and Bart Selman. International
Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol. 9(1), 2000
Artificial
Intelligence and Operations Research: Challenges and Opportunities in
Planning and Scheduling. Carla Gomes. Journal of Knowledge Engineering
Review, Vol. 15, 1, 2000.
A
Connection Between Phase Transitions in Complexity and Good Decodings. Carla Gomes, Stephen Wicker, and Xi
Xie. Proc. of the International Symposium on Information Theory and
its Applications, 2000.
Heavy-tails,
Phase Transitions, and the Nature of Cutoff and Capacity. Carla Gomes, Xi Xie, Stephen
Wicker, and Bart Selman. In Forney Festschrift, Kluwer,
2000. PDF
On
the Fine Structure of Large Search Spaces. Carla Gomes and Bart
Selman. In Proceedings the Eleventh International Conference on
Tools with Artificial Intelligence ICTAI'99, Chicago, IL, November
1999. PDF Postscript
Search
Strategies for Hybrid Search Spaces. Carla Gomes and Bart
Selman. In Proceedings the Eleventh International Conference on
Tools with Artificial Intelligence ICTAI'99, Chicago, IL, November
1999.
Heavy-tailed
Distributions in Computational Methods. Carla Gomes and Bart Selman.
In Proc. Application of Heavy Tailed Distribution in Economics,
Engineering and Statistics (TAILS-99), 1999.
Boosting
Combinatorial Search Through Randomization. Carla Gomes, Bart Selman, and Henry
Kautz. Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98). PDF Postscript Compressed
Postscript
Randomization
in Backtrack Search: Exploiting Heavy-Tailed Profiles for Solving Hard
Scheduling Problems.
Carla Gomes, Ken McAloon, Bart Selman, and Carol Tretkoff. Proceedings
of the Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Planning Systems (AIPS-98), Pittsburgh, PA, 1998. Compressed Postscript
Heavy-tailed
Distributions in Combinatorial Search. Carla Gomes, Bart Selman, and Nuno
Crato. In Principles and Practices of Constraint Programming,
(CP-97) Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1330, pp 121-135, Linz,
Austria., 1997. Springer-Verlag. Postscript PDF Compressed Postscript
Problem
Structure in the Presence of Perturbations. Carla Gomes and Bart Selman.
In Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-97), New Providence, RI, 1997.
Algorithm
Portfolio Design: Theory vs. Practice. Carla Gomes and Bart Selman.
In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference On Uncertainty in Artificial
Intelligence (UAI-97), New Providence, RI, 1997. Morgan Kaufmann. Compressed Postscript
A
Transformational Approach Applied to Outage Management of Nuclear Power
Plants. C.
Gomes, D. Smith, and S. Westfold. Proceedings of the 13th HICC,
IEEE Computer Society, 1997.
Technology
for Planning and Scheduling under Complex Constraints. Carla Gomes and Karen
Alguire. In Proceedings of Society for Optical Engineering,
1997, Boston.
Synthesis
of Schedulers for Planned Shutdowns of Power Plants. Carla Gomes, Douglas Smith,
and Stephen Westfold. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Knowledge-Based
Software Engineering Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1996.
ROMAN:
An Application of Advanced Technology to Outage Management. Karen Alguire and Carla Gomes.
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Dual-Use Technologies and
Applications Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1996.
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