The work “Hierarchical Finite State Controllers for Generalized Planning” by Javier Segovia-Aguas, Sergio Jiménez and Anders Jonsson, from the Artificial Intelligence Group has received the Distinguished Paper Award at the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-16), the largest international conference in Artificial Intelligence.

Anders Jonsson is the Principal Investigator (with Hector Geffner) of the subproject "Enhancing Usability and Dissemination of Planning Tools" and takes part as PhD thesis co-supervisor in "Bio Image Signal Analysis" and "Educational Data Science", transfering and advancing knowledge in Artificial Intelligence within the bio and educational domains.

UPF news:

• English "Distinguished Paper Award for a study by the Artificial Intelligence Research Group "
• Catalan "Distinguished Paper Award per a un treball del Grup de Recerca en Intel·ligència Artificial "
• Spanish "Distinguished Paper Award para un trabajo del Grupo de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial"