Peter Vrancx
Postal address:
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Artificial Intelligence Lab
Pleinlaan 2
Building G, 10th floor
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Room: 10G720
E-mail: pvrancx@vub.ac.be
I am an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and researcher with the Computational Modeling Group of the AI lab.
Research interests: Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Game Theory, Collaborative Filtering.
Publications
Here are some of my selected publications. You can also take a look at the complete list of my publications.
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. (In Press). Knowledge Engineering Review: Special Issue on Adaptive and Learning Agents. Retrieved from https://ai.vub.ac.be/ALA2012/KER.html
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. (2015). Expressing Arbitrary Reward Functions as Potential-Based Advice. In Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15).
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. (2015). Multi-Scale Reward Shaping via an Off-Policy Ensemble. In International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-15). To appear.
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. (2014). Off-Policy Shaping Ensembles in Reinforcement Learning. In European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI). IOS Press.
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. (2012). Adaptive and Learning Agents. Berlin, Germany: Springer. Retrieved from http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-28498-4
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. (2012). Game Theory and Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning. In , Reinforcement Learning: State of the Art (pp. 441-470). Springer. Retrieved from http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/book/978-3-642-27644-6
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. (2011). Transfer Learning for Multi-agent Coordination. In International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2011). Rome, Italy.
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. (2011). Learning a Pricing Strategy in Multi-Domain DWDM Networks. In IEEE International Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks. Chapel Hill, USA.
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. (2011). Proceedings of the 11th Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop. Taipei,Taiwan: AAMAS11. Retrieved from http://como.vub.ac.be/ALA2011/ALA11_Proceedings.pdf
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. (2010). Learning Multi-Agent State Space Representations. In 9th International Conference on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2010). Toronto, Canada.
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. (2010). Analyzing the Dynamics of Stigmergetic Interactions through Pheromone Games. Theoretical Computer Science. Special Issue on Swarm Intelligence: Theory, 2116–2126. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2010.03.004
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. (2010). Decentralised Reinforcement Learning in Markov Games. Brussels,Belgium: ASP-VubPress. Retrieved from http://www.aspeditions.be/article.aspx?article_id=DECENT352I
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. (2008). Decentralized Learning in Markov Games. ()IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part B: Cybernetics), 38, 976-81. Retrieved from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4539483&isnumber=4567535
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. (2008). Switching Dynamics of Multi-Agent Learning. In International joint conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'08).
Activities
Dynamic Task Allocation in Turn Based Strategy Games
Organization
- Dutch-Belgian Reinforcement Learning Workshop
- WCCI 2014 Special Session on Learning and optimization in multi-criteria dynamic and uncertain environments.
- KER Special Issue on Adaptive and Learning Agents
- The Adaptive and Learning Agents workshop 2012
- IJCNN 2012 Special Session on Real World Applications of Reinforcement Learning
- The Adaptive and Learning Agents workshop 2011
Program committee
- International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)
- International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence(ICAART)
- European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
- IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI)
- IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI)
- Belgian Dutch Artificial Intelligence Conference (BNAIC)
- Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop
- Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents Symposium
Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Man, Systems & Cybernetics
- Elsevier Theoretical Computer Science
- Mechatronics
- ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
- Automatica
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
- Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
Research projects
Courses
News
- Best Paper Award at ALA 2015 (8 Jun 2015)
- AI-Lab Hosts Dutch-Belgian Reinforcement Learning Workshop (21 Oct 2014)
- Call for papers: Special session at WCCI 2014 “Learning and optimization in multi-criteria dynamic and uncertain environments” (28 Oct 2013)
- Real World Applications of Reinforcement Learning session at IEEE WCCI 2012 (6 Jun 2012)
- Adaptive Learning Agents workshop at AAMAS 2012 (1 Jun 2012)
