Rong Zhou's Publications by Category

• Heuristic Search and Planning
• External-Memory and Parallel Graph Search
• Planning under Uncertainty
• Bioinformatics
• Interface Design and Human Factors

• A Breadth-First Approach to Memory-Efficient Graph Search
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, MA, July 2006.

• Memory-Efficient Symbolic Heuristic Search
  R. Jensen, E. Hansen, S. Richards, and R. Zhou. Sixteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-06), The English Lake District, Cumbria, UK, June 2006.

• Breadth-First Heuristic Search
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Artificial Intelligence, 170:385-408.

• Beam-Stack Search: Integrating Backtracking with Beam Search
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Fifteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-05), Monterey, CA, June 2005. (Best Paper Award)

• Space-Efficient Memory-Based Heuristics
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), San Jose, CA, July 2004.

• Breadth-First Heuristic Search
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Fourteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-04), Whistler, BC, Canada, June 2004. (Co-winner of Honeywell Best Student Paper Award)

• Sweep A*: Space-Efficient Heuristic Search in Partially Ordered Graphs
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Fifteenth IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-03), Sacremento, CA, November 2003.

• Sparse-Memory Graph Search
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003.

• Symbolic Heuristic Search using Decision Diagrams
  E. Hansen, R. Zhou and Z. Feng. Fifth International Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation (SARA-02), Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, August 2002.

• Memory-Bounded A* Graph Search
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Fifteenth International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-02), Pensacola, Florida, May 2002.

• Parallel Structured Duplicate Detection
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 2007.

• Edge Partitioning in External-Memory Graph Search
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), Hyderabad, India, January 2007.

• Domain-Independent Structured Duplicate Detection
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, MA, July 2006.

• External-Memory Pattern Databases using Structured Duplicate Detection
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, PA, July 2005.

• Structured Duplicate Detection in External-Memory Graph Search
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), San Jose, CA, July 2004.

• Synthesis of Hierarchical Finite-State Controllers for POMDPs
  E. Hansen and R. Zhou. Thirteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-03), Trento, Italy, June 2003.

• An Improved Grid-based Approximation Algorithm for POMDPs
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01), Seattle, Washington, August 2001.

• K-Group A* for Multiple Sequence Alignment with Quasi-Natural Gap Costs
  R. Zhou and E. Hansen. Sixteenth IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-04), Boca Raton, FL, November 2004.

• Towards an Interface Description Language for Relational Databases
  H.M. Jamil and R. Zhou. International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI-02), Trento, Italy, May 2002.

• Effects of Visual Interface Design, Control Interface Type, and Control Latency on Performance, Telepresence, and Workload in a Teleoperation Task
  D.B. Kaber, J. Riley, R. Zhou and J.V. Draper. Fourteenth Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association and Forty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Santa Monica, CA, August 2000.

• Design and Prototyping of an Economical Teleoperation Test-Bed for Human Factors Research: Cost, Resource Requirements and Capability Assessment
  D.B. Kaber, R. Zhou, and D. Song. Twenty-fifth International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, New Orleans, LA, March 1999.