Francesco Percassi

Research output

Research output per year 2017 2023 2024 2025 2025

• 31 Conference contribution
• 3 Article
• 2 Conference article
• 1 Chapter

Research output per year

Research output per year

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• 2025

  An Approach to Quantify Plans Robustness in Real-world Applications

  Percassi, F., Castellanos, S., Rombourg, R. & Vallati, M., 29 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: IJCAI 2025.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

• An Extensive Empirical Analysis of Macro-Actions for Numeric Planning

  Alarnaouti, D., Percassi, F. & Vallati, M., 1 Jan 2025, AIxIA 2024 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence: XXIIIrd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AIxIA 2024, Bolzano, Italy, November 25–28, 2024 Proceedings. Artale, A., Cortellessa, G. & Montali, M. (eds.). Springer, Cham, Vol. 15450. p. 23-36 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; vol. 15450).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

• Initial Condition Retrieving for Hybrid and Numeric Planning Problems

  Cardellini, M., Percassi, F., Maratea, M. & Vallati, M., 1 Mar 2025, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of 35th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. AAAI press, 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

• Leveraging AI Planning in a What-if Analysis Framework for Assessing Traffic Signal Strategies

  Percassi, F. & Vallati, M., 20 Mar 2025, 27th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems: ITSC 2024. IEEE, p. 1330-1335 6 p. 10920087. (International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

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• On the Notion of Plan Quality for PDDL+

  Percassi, F., Scala, E. & Vallati, M., 1 Mar 2025, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of 35th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. AAAI press, 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

• Optimising Traffic Flow Through Synchronised Signal Configurations Along Urban Corridors

  Guo, R., Percassi, F. & Vallati, M., 20 Mar 2025, 27th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems. IEEE, p. 338-343 6 p. 10920265. (International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Towards Practical Classical Planning Compilations of Numeric Planning

  Bonassi, L., Percassi, F. & Scala, E., 11 Apr 2025, The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Thirty-Seventh Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence: Fifteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Walsh, T., Shah, J. & Kolter, Z. (eds.). 25 ed. AAAI press, Vol. 39. p. 26472-26480 9 p. (Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 39, no. 25).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
• 2024

  An Effective Polynomial Technique for Compiling Conditional Effects Away

  Gerevini, A. E., Percassi, F. & Scala, E., 25 Mar 2024, Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Thirty-Sixth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence: Fourteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Wooldridge, M., Dy, J. & Natarajan, S. (eds.). 18 ed. AAAI press, Vol. 38. p. 20104-20112 9 p. (Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 38, no. 18).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• Deployable Yet Effective Traffic Signal Optimisation via Automated Planning

  El Kouaiti, A., Percassi, F., Saetti, A., McCluskey, L. & Vallati, M., 1 Jun 2024, Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2024). Felner, A. & Li, J. (eds.). 1 ed. AAAI press, Vol. 17. p. 269-270 2 p. (International Symposium on Combinatorial Search; vol. 2024).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

• Optimised Variants of Polynomial Compilation for Conditional Effects in Classical Planning

  Percassi, F., Scala, E. & Gerevini, A. E., 1 Jun 2024, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2024). Felner, A. & Li, J. (eds.). 1 ed. AAAI press, Vol. 17. p. 100-108 9 p. (The International Symposium on Combinatorial Search).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• PDDL+ Models for Deployable yet Effective Traffic Signal Optimisation

  El Kouaiti, A., Percassi, F., Saetti, A., McCluskey, L. & Vallati, M., 30 May 2024, Proceedings of the Thirty-Forth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. Bernardini, S. & Muise, C. (eds.). AAAI press, p. 168-177 10 p. (Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS; vol. 34).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• Taming Discretised PDDL+ through Multiple Discretisations

  Cardellini, M., Maratea, M., Percassi, F., Scala, E. & Vallati, M., 1 Jun 2024, The 17th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2024). Felner, A. & Li, J. (eds.). 1 ed. AAAI press, Vol. 17. p. 263-264 2 p. (International Symposium on Combinatorial Search; vol. 2024).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

• Taming Discretised PDDL+ through Multiple Discretisations

  Cardellini, M., Maratea, M., Percassi, F., Scala, E. & Vallati, M., 30 May 2024, Proceedings of the Thirty-Forth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. Bernardini, S. & Muise, C. (eds.). AAAI press, p. 59-67 9 p. (Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS; vol. 34).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
  3 Citations (Scopus)
• 2023

  An Efficient Heuristic for AI-based Urban Traffic Control

  Percassi, F., Bhatnagar, S., Guo, R., McCabe, K., McCluskey, L. & Vallati, M., 11 Sep 2023, 2023 8th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS). IEEE, 6 p. 10246190

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• A Structure-Sensitive Translation from Hybrid to Numeric Planning

  Percassi, F., Scala, E. & Vallati, M., 3 Nov 2023, AIxIA 2023 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence: XXIInd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AIxIA 2023, Rome, Italy, November 6–9, 2023, Proceedings. Basili, R., Lembo, D., Limongelli, C. & Orlandini, A. (eds.). 1st ed. Springer, Cham, Vol. LNCS 14318. p. 105-118 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. LNCS 14318).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

• Automated Planning for Generating and Simulating Traffic Signal Strategies

  Bhatnagar, S., Guo, R., McCabe, K., McCluskey, L., Percassi, F. & Vallati, M., 19 Aug 2023, Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2023. Elkind, E. (ed.). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, p. 7119-7122 4 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 2023-August).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Fixing Plans for PDDL+ Problems: Theoretical and Practical Implications

  Percassi, F., Scala, E. & Vallati, M., 2 Jul 2023, Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling: (ICAPS 2023). Koenig, S., Stern, R. & Vallati, M. (eds.). 1 ed. AAAI press, Vol. 33. p. 324-333 10 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling; vol. 33, no. 1).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Goal Recognition as a Deep Learning Task: the GRNet Approach

  Chiari, M., Gerevini, A. E., Percassi, F., Putelli, L., Serina, I. & Olivato, M., 1 Jul 2023, Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling: (ICAPS 2023). Koenig, S., Stern, R. & Vallati, M. (eds.). 1 ed. AAAI press, Vol. 33. p. 560-568 9 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling.).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• On the Notion of Fixability of PDDL+ Plans (Extended Abstract)

  Percassi, F., Scala, E. & Vallati, M., 2 Jul 2023, The 16th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search : SoCS 2023. Barták, R., Rumi, W. & Salzman, O. (eds.). 1st ed. AAAI press, p. 177-178 2 p. (The International Symposium on Combinatorial Search; vol. 16, no. 1).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2022

  A Sound (But Incomplete) Polynomial Translation from Discretised PDDL+ to Numeric Planning

  Percassi, F., Scala, E. & Vallati, M., 20 Jul 2022, AIxIA 2021 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 20th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Event, December 1–3, 2021, Revised Selected Papers. Bandini, S., Gasparini, F., Mascardi, V., Palmonari, M. & Vizzari, G. (eds.). 1st ed. Springer, Cham, Vol. LNCS/LNAI 13196. p. 18-31 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. LNCS/LNAI 13196).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  • Numerics 100%
  • Planning 93%
  • Sound 86%
  • Acoustic waves 71%
  • Polynomials 70%

• On the Reformulation of Discretised PDDL+ to Numeric Planning (Extended Abstract)

  Percassi, F., Scala, E. & Vallati, M., 17 Jul 2022, Proceedings of 15th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2022. 1 ed. AAAI press, Vol. 15. p. 314-316 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Engines 100%
  • Planning 99%

• On the Use of Width-Based Search for Multi Agent Privacy-Preserving Planning (Extended Abstract)

  Gerevini, A. E., Lipovetzky, N., Percassi, F., Saetti, A. & Serina, I., 17 Jul 2022, Proceedings of 15th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search: SoCS 2022. 1 ed. AAAI press, Vol. 15. p. 276-278 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Planning 100%

• The Power of Reformulation: From Validation to Planning in PDDL+

  Percassi, F., Scala, E. & Vallati, M., 13 Jun 2022, Proceedings of the Thirty-second International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling: (ICAPS 2022). Kumar, A., Thiébaux, S., Varakantham, P. & Yeoh, W. (eds.). Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 32. p. 288-296 9 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  • Planning 100%
  • Formal specification 93%
  • Compliance 69%
  • Engines 50%
  7 Citations (Scopus)
• 2021

  On Planning with Qualitative State-Trajectory Constraints in PDDL3 by Compiling them Away

  Bonassi, L., Gerevini, A. E., Percassi, F. & Scala, E., 17 May 2021, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling : ICAPS 2021. Biundo, S., Do, M., Goldman, R., Katz, M., Yang, Q. & Hankui Zhou, H. (eds.). AAAI press, Vol. 31. p. 46-50 5 p. 15756. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling; vol. 31).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Trajectories 100%
  • Planning 91%
  • Specifications 46%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

• Translations from Discretised PDDL+ to Numeric Planning

  Percassi, F., Scala, E. & Vallati, M., 17 May 2021, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling: ICAPS 2021. Biundo, S., Do, M., Goldman, R., Katz, M., Yang, Q. & Hankui Zhou, H. (eds.). AAAI press, Vol. 31. p. 252-261 10 p. 15969. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling.; vol. 31).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Planning 100%
  • Engines 75%
  11 Citations (Scopus)
• 2020

  Generating and Exploiting Cost Predictions in Heuristic State-Space Planning

  Percassi, F., Gerevini, A. E., Scala, E., Serina, I. & Vallati, M., 29 May 2020, Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling: (ICAPS 2020). Beck, J. C., Buffet, O., Hoffmann, J., Karpas, E. & Sohrabi, S. (eds.). AAAI press, Vol. 30. p. 569-573 5 p. (Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS; vol. 30).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Planning 100%
  • Costs 60%
  • Machine learning 38%
  3 Citations (Scopus)
• 2019

  Best-First Width Search for Multi Agent Privacy-Preserving Planning

  Gerevini, A. E., Lipovetzky, N., Percassi, F., Saetti, A. & Serina, I., 6 Jul 2019, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling: (ICAPS 2019). Benton, J., Lipovetzky, N., Onaindia, E., Smith, D. E. & Srivastava, S. (eds.). AAAI press, p. 163-171 9 p. (Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Privacy Preserving 100%
  • Planning 58%
  • Privacy 27%
  • Private Information 19%
  • Heuristics 16%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Novelty Messages Filtering for Multi Agent Privacy-Preserving Planning

  Gerevini, A. E., Lipovetzky, N., Peli, N., Percassi, F., Saetti, A. & Serina, I., 5 Jul 2019, Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search: (SoCS 2019). Surynek, P. & Yeoh, W. (eds.). AAAI press, p. 79-87 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Planning 100%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• On Compiling Away PDDL3 Soft Trajectory Constraints without Using Automata

  Percassi, F. & Gerevini, A. E., 6 Jul 2019, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling: (ICAPS 2019). Benton, J., Lipovetzky, N., Onaindia, E., Smith, D. E. & Srivastava, S. (eds.). AAAI press, p. 320-328 9 p. (Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Automata 100%
  • Trajectory 78%
  • Trajectories 60%
  • Planning 54%
  • Experimental Analysis 28%
  15 Citations (Scopus)
• 2018

  Iterative Width Search for Multi Agent Privacy-Preserving Planning

  Bazzotti, G., Gerevini, A. E., Lipovetzky, N., Percassi, F., Saetti, A. & Serina, I., 9 Nov 2018, AI*IA 2018 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence : 17th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings. Ghidini, C., Traverso, P., Magnini, B. & Passerini, A. (eds.). 1st ed. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Vol. LNAI 11298. p. 431-444 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11298 LNAI).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  • Privacy Preserving 100%
  • Planning 65%
  • Privacy 61%
  • Heuristics 27%
  • Private Information 26%
  3 Citations (Scopus)
• 2017

  Improving Plan Quality through Heuristics for Guiding and Pruning the Search: A Study Using LAMA

  Percassi, F., Gerevini, A. E. & Geffner, H., 5 Jun 2017, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search: (SoCS 2017). Fukunaga, A. & Kishimoto, A. (eds.). AAAI press, p. 144-148 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Planning 100%
  • Costs 20%
  3 Citations (Scopus)