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　　人力资源部教师发展中心开展“学者论坛”系列活动，定期邀请国内外知名专家学者、国家级教学名师等作专题报告，旨在加强广大师生的学术思想交流和碰撞，促进青年教师成长，开拓学生视野。现将第58期论坛安排如下，欢迎广大师生参加。

　　一、主　题：Multi-Robot Path Finding

　　二、主讲人：南加州大学 Sven Koenig 教授（AAAI Fellow, Chair of ACM SIGAI）

　　三、时　间：2017年5月16日（周二）15:00

　　四、地　点：清水河校区图书馆2楼光影厅

　　五、主持人：计算机科学与工程学院　董乐 副教授

　　六、内容简介：

　　Teams of robots often have to assign target locations among themselves and then plan collision-free paths to their target locations in space-constrained environments. For example, hundreds of robots navigate autonomously in Amazon fulfillment centers to move inventory pods all the way from their storage locations to the packing stations (and vice versa). Path planning for these robots is NP-hard, yet one must find high-quality collision-free paths for them in real-time. The shorter these paths are, the fewer robots are needed and the cheaper it is to open new fulfillment centers. Multi-robot path finding is concerned with planning for such multi-robot systems. In this talk, I will give a high-level overview of multi-robot path finding algorithms and report on some of our current research in this area.

　　七、主讲人简介：

　　Sven Koenig is a professor in computer science at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997, and was a program director at the National Science Foundation from 2010 to 2012. Most of his research centers around techniques for decision making that enable single situated agents (such as robots or decision-support systems) and teams of agents to act intelligently in their environments. Prof. Koenig has published more than 200 papers in various areas of artificial intelligence and robotics. He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), has won a number of awards for his research, teaching and mentoring, was conference co-chair of the 2004 International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, program co-chair of the 2005 International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems and the 2015 AAAI Conference. He is the current chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence, an associate editor of the Artificial Intelligence journal, the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, and the Journal on Advances in Complex Systems, and an editor of the Communications of the ACM and AI Magazine.

　　八、主办单位：人力资源部教师发展中心

　　　　承办单位：计算机科学与工程学院

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