Dr Lukas Chrpa

In 2005 I obtained master degree (equivalent to MSc.) in Computer Science at Palacky University in Olomouc. After that I moved to Charles University in Prague for PhD study in Theoretical Computer Science. Main areas for my PhD studies were automated planning, logic, logic programming and machine learning. I was supervised by Dr. Roman Bartak who is a respected scientist in Artificial Intelligence, especially planning, scheduling and constraint satisfaction. In September 2009 I successfully defended my thesis entitled “Learning for Classical Planning”. After that I spent almost 2 years as a postdoc in Agent Technology Center at Czech Technical University in Prague where I performed application oriented research in path (trajectory) planning and multi-agent simulation. In November 2011 I joined University of Huddersfield as a research fellow in areas of automated planning, path planning, machine learning and knowledge engineering.

My research interests are related to the field of Artificial Intelligence, namely: automated planning, machine learning, path planning, knowledge engineering, multi-agent planning, logic and logic programming, constraint satisfaction.

Article

Naveed, M., Kitchin, D., Crampton, A., Chrpa, L. and Gregory, P. (2012) ‘A Monte-Carlo Path Planner for Dynamic and Partially Observable Environments’ IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games .

Chrpa, L. and Novák, P. (2011) ‘Dynamic Trajectory Replanning for Unmanned Aircrafts Supporting Tactical Missions in Urban Environments’ Lecture Notes in Computer Science , 6867, pp. 256-265. ISSN 0302-9743

Chrpa, L (2010) ‘Generation of macro-operators via investigation of action dependencies in plans’ The Knowledge Engineering Review , 25 (03), pp. 281-297. ISSN 0269-8889

Book Section

Shah, M., Chrpa, L., Gregory, P., McCluskey, T. and Jimoh, F. (2012) ‘OCL Plus:Processes and Events in Object-Centred Planning’. In: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Monpellier, France: IOS Press. pp. 282-293. ISBN 978-1-61499-095-6

Chrpa, L. and McCluskey, T. (2012) ‘On Exploiting Structures of Classical Planning Problems: Generalizing Entanglements’. In: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications: Proceedings of ECAI 2012 . : IOS Press. pp. 240-245. ISBN 978-1-61499-097-0

Chrpa, L., McCluskey, T. and Osborne, H. (2012) ‘Optimizing Plans through Analysis of Action Dependencies and Independencies’. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. California, USA: AAAI Press. pp. 338-342. ISBN 978-1-57735-562-5

Chrpa, L., McCluskey, T. and Osborne, H. (2012) ‘Reformulating Planning Problems: A Theoretical Point of View’. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference. Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press. . ISBN 978-1-57735-558-8

Chrpa, L (2011) ‘Trajectory Planning on Grids: Considering Speed Limit Constraints’. In: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Trondheim, Norway: IOS press. pp. 60-69. ISBN 9781607507536

Chrpa, L (2010) ‘Combining Learning Techniques for Classical Planning: Macro-operators and Entanglements’. In: Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 2010 22nd IEEE International Conference on . Arras, France: IEEE. pp. 79-86. ISBN 9781424488179

Chrpa, L., Surynek, P. and Vysko?il, J. (2009) ‘Encoding of Planning Problems and Their Optimizations in Linear Logic’. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. London: Springer. pp. 54-68. ISBN 978-3-642-00674-6

Chrpa, L. and Bartak, R. (2009) ‘Reformulating Planning Problems by Eliminating Unpromising Actions’. In: Proceedings, the Eighth Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation . California, USA: AAAI Press. . ISBN 9781577354338

Chrpa, L. and Bartak, R. (2008) ‘Towards Getting Domain Knowledge: Plans Analysis through Investigation of Actions Dependencies’. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference. Florida, USA: AAAI Press. pp. 531-536. ISBN 9781577353652

Conference Item

Shah, M., Chrpa, L., Kitchin, D., McCluskey, T. and Vallati, M. (2013) ‘Exploring Knowledge Engineering Strategies in Designing and Modelling a Road Traffic Accident Management Domain’. In: The 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-13), , Beijing, China

Chrpa, L., Vallati, M., Kitchin, D. and McCluskey, T. (2013) ‘Generating Macro-operators by Exploiting Inner Entanglements’. In: 10th Symposiium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation (SARA 13), 11th-12th July 2013, Leavenworth, Washington, USA

Jimoh, F., McCluskey, T., Chrpa, L. and Gregory, P. (2012) ‘Enabling Autonomic Properties in Road Transport System’. In: 30th Workshop of the UK Planning And Scheduling Special Interest Group PLANSIG 2012, 13th and 14th of December 2012, Teeside University

Chrpa, L., McCluskey, T. and Osborne, H. (2012) ‘Determining Redundant Actions in Sequential Plans’. In: 24th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2012), 7th-9th November 2012, Athens, Greece , pp. 484-491

Naveed, M., Kitchin, D., Crampton, A., Chrpa, L. and Gregory, P. (2012) ‘A Monte-Carlo Path Planner for Dynamic and Partially Observable Environments’. In: Computing in Games (CIG) 2012, 11-14 September 2012, Granada, Spain