I am a graduate student
[CV] in WUSTL, advised by
Dr. Yixin Chen and
Dr. Weixiong Zhang.
My current research interest is AI planning.
I have worked with, is now working with and in the future will focus on many different AI Planning approaches.
Other areas/topics that I want to know more about, and very likely to work on in the future:
- Natural Language Processing
- Web Service Composition
- Information Retrieval
- Probabilistic Inference
Publications
Journal Papers
Y.Chen, R. Huang, Z. Xing and W. Zhang,  
Long-distance Mutual Exclusion for Planning. 
Artificial Intelligence Journal, Volume 173, Issue 2, Pages 365-391 (February 2009)
Conference Papers
R. Huang, Y. Chen, and W. Zhang, 
"A Novel Transition Based Encoding Scheme for Planning as Satisfiability".  
Proc. National AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10), 2010.
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Outstanding Paper Award of AAAI-2010
G. Zou, Y. Chen, Y. Yang, R. Huang, and Y. Xu,  
"
AI Planning and Combinatorial Optimization for Web Service Composition in Cloud Computing
".
Proc. Int'l Conf. on Cloud Computing and Virtualization (CCV-10), 2010.
R. Huang, Y. Chen, and W. Zhang,  
"
An Optimal Temporally Expressive Planner: Initial Results and Application to P2P Network
Optimization".  
Proc. Int'l Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling, (ICAPS-09), 2009.
Y. Chen, R. Huang, and W. Zhang, 
"
Fast Planning by Search in Domain Transition Graphs".
Proc. AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08), 2008.
C. Hsu, B. Wah, R. Huang, and Y. Chen,  
"
Constraint Partitioning for Solving Planning Problems with Trajectory Constraints and Goal Preferences".
Proc. Int'l Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), pp. 1924-1929, 2007
Workshop Papers
R. Huang, Y. Chen, and W. Zhang,
"
DTG-Plan: Fast Planning by Search in Domain Transition Graphs".
Proc. Sixth Int'l Planning Competition, Int'l Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2008.(Workshop)
Y. Chen, Q. Lv, and R. Huang,
"
Plan-A: A Cost-Optimal Planner Based on SAT-Constrained Optimization".
Proc. Sixth Int'l Planning Competition, Int'l Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2008.(Workshop)
C. Hsu, B. Wah, R. Huang, and Y. Chen,
"
New Features in SGPlan for Handling Soft Constraints and Goals Preferences in PDDL3.0".
Proc. Fifth Int'l Planning Competition, Int'l Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'06), pp. 39-42, 2006.
C. Hsu, B. Wah, R. Huang, and Y. Chen,
"
Handling Soft Constraints and Goal Preferences in SGPlani".
Workshop on Preferences and Soft Constraints in Planning, ICAPS'06, pp. 54-58, 2006