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Here you can find my thesis, A Study in The Computational Complexity of Temporal Reasoning from my disputation 2002-12-11, as well as a list of some of my other research publications.

2008

  • A. Saffiotti, M. Broxvall, M. Gritti, K. LeBlanc, R. Lundh, J. Rashid, B.S. Seo, Y.J. Cho. The PEIS-Ecology Project: Visions and Results. In Proceedings of The 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008), pp. 2329-2335, Nice, France, September 2008. Download as PDF.
  • J. Rashid, M. Broxvall, A. Saffiotti. Digital Representation of Everyday Objects in a Robot Ecology via Proxies. In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008), pp. 1908-1914. Nice, France, September 2008. Download as PDF.
  • J. Larsson, M. Broxvall, A. Saffiotti Laser Based Intersection Detection for Reactive Navigation in an Underground Mine. In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008), pp. 2222-2227. Nice, France, 2008. Download as PDF.
  • L. Karlsson, A. Bouguerra, M. Broxvall, S. Coradeschi and A. Saffiotti. To Secure an Anchor - A recovery planning approach to ambiguity in perceptual anchoring. AI Communications 21(1):1-14, 2008.
  • J. Larsson, M. Broxvall, and A. Saffiotti Flexible Infrastructure-Free Navigation for Vehicles in Underground Mines. In Proc of the IEEE Int Conf on Intelligent Systems. Varna, Bulgaria, 2008.
  • J. Larsson, M. Broxvall and A. Saffiotti. Laser Based Corridor Detection for Reactive Navigation. In Industrial Robot. 35(1):69-79, 2008. Download as PDF.
  • A. Saffiotti and M. Broxvall. Affordances in an Ecology of Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems. In E. Rome, J. Hertzberg, G. Dorffner (eds) Towards Affordance-Based Robot Control, LNAI 4760 (Springer, DE, 2008) pp. 106-121. Download as PDF.

2007

  • M. Broxvall, B.S. Seo, W.Y. Kwon. The PEIS Kernel: A Middleware for Ubiquitous Robotics. In Proc. of the IROS-07 Workshop on Ubiquitous Robotic Space Design and Applications. San Diego, CA, 2007. Download as PDF.
  • M. Bordignon, J. Rashid, M. Broxvall and A. Saffiotti. Seamless Integration of Robots and Tiny Embedded Devices in a PEIS-Ecology. In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) . San Diego, CA, 2007. Download as PDF.
  • M. Broxvall. A Middleware for Ecologies of Robotic Devices. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination (ROBOCOMM). Athens, Greece, October 2007. Download as PDF.
  • M. Broxvall, A. Loutfi, A. Saffiotti. Interacting with a Robot Ecology using Task Templates. In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). Jeju Island, Korea, 2007. Download as PDF.
  • A. Saffiotti, M. Broxvall, B.S. Seo and Y.J. Cho. The PEIS-Ecology Project: a progress report. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS-07), Borås, Sweden, 2007. Download as PDF.
  • M. Gritti, M. Broxvall and A. Saffiotti. Reactive Self-Configuration of an Ecology of Robots. In Proceedings of the ICRA-07 Workshop on Network Robot Systems. Rome, Italy, 2007. Download as PDF.
  • A. Saffiotti, M. Broxvall, B.S. Seo and Y.J. Cho. The PEIS-Ecology Project: a progress report. In Proceedings of the ICRA-07 Workshop on Network Robot Systems. Rome, Italy, 2007. Download as PDF.
  • M. Seeman, M. Broxvall and A. Saffiotti. Virtual 360° Panorama for Remote Inspection. In Proc. of the IEEE Int. Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) . Rome, Italy, 2007.

2006

  • A. Saffiotti, M. Broxvall, B.S. Seo, Y.J. Cho. Steps Toward an Ecology of Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems. In Proc. of the 3rd Int. Conf. on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence. Seoul, Korea, 2006. Download as PDF.
  • Mattias Seeman, Mathias Broxvall, Alessandro Saffiotti and Peter Wide. An Autonomous Spherical Robot for Security Tasks In Procceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety (CIHSPS 2006). Download as PDF.
  • BeomSu Seo, Mathias Broxvall, Marco Gritti, Alessandro Saffiotti and JungBae Kim. Using JavaSpace for a PEIS Ecology. Intelligent Autonomous Systems, 2006 (IAS-2006) pp. 831-838.
  • Johan Larsson, Mathias Broxvall and Alessandro Saffiotti. A Navigation System for Automated Loaders in Underground Mines. Book Chapter: Field and Service Robotics, Springer, Pages 129 - 140, ISBN: 978-3-540-33452-1.
  • M. Broxvall, S. Coradeschi, A. Loutfi and A. Saffiotti. An Ecological Approach to Odour Recognition in Intelligent Environments. Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Orlando, FL, 2006. Download as PDF.
  • M. Broxvall, M, Gritti, A. Saffiotti, B.S. Seo and Y.J. Cho. PEIS Ecology: Integrating Robots into Smart Environments. Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) . Orlando, FL, 2006. Download as PDF.

2005

  • A. Saffiotti and M. Broxvall. PEIS Ecologies: Ambient Intelligence meets Autonomous Robotics. Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Smart Objects and Ambient Intelligence (sOc-EUSAI) pp. 275-280. Grenoble, France, 2005. Download as PDF.
  • A. Loutfi, M.Broxvall, L. Karlsson and S.Coradeschi. Object Recognition: A new application for smelling robots. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 52 (4), 2005, pp. 272 -- 289. Download as PDF.
  • J. Larsson and M. Broxvall.  Fast laser-based feature recognition,
    In Proc. of the 3rd Swedish Workshop on Autonomous Robotics,
    Stockholm, Sweden, 2005.
  • Johan Larsson, Mathias Broxvall and Alessandro Saffiotti. A Navigation System for Autonomous Loaders in Underground Mines. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR'05) , Port Douglas, Australia, 2005. Download as PDF.
  • Mathias Broxvall, Silvia Coradeschi, Lars Karlsson, and Alessandro Saffiotti. Recovery planning for ambigous cases in perceptual anchoring. In Proceedings of the 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 2005. AAAI Press. Download as PDF.
  • A. Loutfi, S. Coradeschi, L, Karlsson and M. Broxvall. Putting Olfaction into Action: Anchoring symbols to sensor data using olfaction and planning. In Proceedings of the IJCAI-05 Workshop on Planning and Learning in A Priori Unknown or Dynamic Domains , Edinburgh, 2005.

2004

  • Amy Loutfi, Silvia Coradeschi, Lars Karlsson and Mathias Broxvall.  Putting Olfaction into Action: Using an Electronic Nose on an Multi-Sensing Mobile Robot. In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS-04. Sendai, Japan, 2004. Download as PDF.
  • Mathias Broxvall, Silvia Coradeschi, Lars Karlsson and Alessandro Saffiotti. Have Another Look: On failures and recovery planning in perceptual anchoring. In Proceedings of the ECAI-04 Workshop on Cognitive Robotics. Valencia, ES, 2004. Download as PDF.
  • Mathias Broxvall, Lars Karlsson and Alessandro Saffiotti. Steps Toward Detecting and Recovering from Perceptual Failures. In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems. pp. 793--800. IOS Press, 2004. Download as PDF.

Earlier

  • Mathias Broxvall and Peter Jonsson. Point Algebras for Temporal Reasoning: Algorithms and Complexity. Artificial Intelligence. 149(2):179-220, 2003. Download postscript.
  • Mathias Broxvall. A Method for Metric Temporal Reasoning. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-02). pp. 513--518, Edmonton, Canada, July 2002. Download as  PDF.
  • Mathias Broxvall, Peter Jonsson and Jochen Renz: Disjunctions, Independence, Refinements. Artificial Intelligence 140(1-2), 2002, pp. 153-173. Download postscript.
  • Mathias Broxvall. Constraint Satisfaction on Infinite Domains: Composing Domains and Decomposing Constraints. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2002), Toulouse, France, April 2002. pp. 509-520. Download PDF.
  • Mathias Broxvall. The Point Algebra for Branching Time Revisited. In Proceedings of the Joint German/Austrian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2001),  pp. 106--121, Vienna, Austria, Sep 2001. Download postscript.
  • Mathias Broxvall, Peter Jonsson and Jochen Renz: Refinements and Independence: A simple Method for Identifying Tractable Disjunctive Constraints. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2000), pp. 114-127, Singapore, Sep,  2000. Download as postscript.
  • Mathias Broxvall and Peter Jonsson: Disjunctive Temporal Reasoning in Partially Ordered Time Structures. In Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000), pp. 464-469, Austin, Texas, USA, Aug 2000. Download as  PDF.
  • Mathias Broxvall and Peter Jonsson: Towards a Complete Classification of Tractability in Point Algebras for Nonlinear Time.In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-99), pp. 129-143, Alexandria, VA, USA, Oct, 1999. Download postscript. Download technical report.
  • Mathias Broxvall. Computational complexity of point algebras for nonlinear time. In Proceedings of the Swedish AI Society's annual conference (SAIS 2000), Linköping, Sweden, 2000. Winner of the SAIS award for best MSc thesis 1999.

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