Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway University of London
Email: sara.bernardini@rhul.ac.uk
Digital Ocean
National Oceanography Centre
Email: sara.bernardini@noc.ac.uk
Publications
2024
Optimizing Pathfinding for Goal Legibility and Recognition in Cooperative Partially Observable Environments
Sara Bernardini, Fabio Fagnani, Alexandra Neacsu and Santiago Franco
Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), (Impact Factor: 14.4).
Forthcoming, Elsevier.
Lazy Evaluation of Negative Preconditions in Planning Domains
Santiago Franco and Sara Bernardini
Proc. of the 17th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS).
Kananaskis, Canada, June 2024.
Unlocking AI Literacy: The SMaILE-App Gaming Experience
S. Franco, M.G. Ballatore, S. Bernardini, G. Como, L. Damonte, A. Neacsu, and M. Vanelli
Proc. of the IEEE CTSoc International Conference on Gaming, Entertainment & Media (GEM 2024).
Turin, Italy, June 2024.
SMaILE-App: A Mobile Game Application to Teach the Principles of Artificial Intelligence to Generation Z
M.G. Ballatore, S. Bernardini, G. Como, L. Damonte, S. Franco, A. Neacsu, and M. Vanelli
In: E. Guarcello and A. Longo ed(s). School Children and the Challenge of Managing AI Technologies. Routledge.
June 2024.
2023
Helpful Information Sharing for Partially Informed Planning Agents
Sarah Keren, David Wies, and Sara Bernardini
Proc. of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-23).
Macao, China, August 2023.
Exploiting Geometric Constraints in Multi-Agent Pathfinding
Dor Atzmon, Sara Bernardini, Fabio Fagnani, and David Fairbairn
Proc. of the 33rd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-23).
Prague, Czech Republic, July 2023.
Learning Interpretable Heuristics for WalkSAT
Yannet Interian and Sara Bernardini
Proc. of the 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR-23).
Rhodes, Greece, September 2023.
2022
A Network Flow Interpretation of Robust Goal Legibility in Path Finding
Sara Bernardini, Fabio Fagnani, Santiago Franco and Alexandra Neacsu
Proc. of the 32nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-22).
Singapore, June 2022.
Hybrid Discrete-Continuous Path Planning for Lattice Traversal
Julius Sustarevas, Santiago Franco and Sara Bernardini
Proc. of the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022).
Kyoto, Japan, October 2022.
Z. Jiang, F. Jovan, P. Moradi, T. Richardson, S. Bernardini, S. Watson, A. Weightman, D. Hine
Journal of Field Robotics, 1– 21. September 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/rob.22117
Adaptive Temporal Planning for Multi-Robot Systems in Operations and Maintenance of Offshore Wind Farms
Ferdina Jovan and Sara Bernardini
Proc. of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23).
Washington, DC, USA, February 2022.
Modular Robots for Enabling Operations in Unstructured Extreme Environments
M.E. Sayed, J.O. Roberts, K. Donaldson, S.t. Mahon, F. Iqbal, B. Li, S. Franco Aixela, G. Mastorakis, E.T. Jonasson, M.P. Nemitz, S. Bernardini, A.A. and Stokes.
Advanced Intelligent Systems 2000227.
January 2022.
2021
A Unifying Look at Sequence Submodularity
Sara Bernardini, Fabio Fagnani and Chiara Piacentini
Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), (Impact Factor: 14.4).
Volume 297, February 2021, Elsevier.
Informed Autonomous Exploration of Subterranean Environments
Ali Akbari and Sara Bernardini
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
Volume 6, no. 4, October 2021.
Informed Autonomous Exploration of Subterranean Environments
Ali Akbari and Sara Bernardini
Proc. of the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021).
Prague, Czech Republic, October 2021.
Autonomous Building of Structures in Unstructured Environments via AI Planning
Jamie O. Roberts, Santiago Franco, Adam A. Stokes, Sara Bernardini
Proc. of the 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-21).
Guangzhou, China, June 2021.
vPlanSim: An Open Source Graphical Interface for the Visualisation and Simulation of AI Systems
Jamie Roberts, Georgios Mastorakis, Brad Lazaruk, Santiago Franco, Adam Stokes and Sara Bernardini
Proc. of the 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-21).
Guangzhou, China, June 2021.
Fedian Jovan, Sara Bernardini
Proc. of the 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-21).
Guangzhou, China, June 2021.
2020
Through the Lens of Sequence Submodularity
Sara Bernardini, Fabio Fagnani and Chiara Piacentini
Proc. of the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-20).
Nancy, France, June 2020.
ICAPS-2020 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
Multi-Robot Platform for the Autonomous Operation and Maintenance of Offshore Wind Farms
Sara Bernardini, Ferdian Jovan, Zhengyi Jiang, Peiman Moradi, Tom Richardson, Rasoul Sadeghian, Sina Sareh, Simon Watson, and Andrew Weightman
Proc. of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-20).
Auckland, New Zeland, May 2020.
An Optimization Approach to Robust Goal Obfuscation
Sara Bernardini, Fabio Fagnani, and Santiago Franco
Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR-20).
Rhodes, Greece, September 2020.
Reasoning about Plan Robustness versus Plan Cost for Partially Informed Agents
Sarah Keren, Sara Bernardini, Kofi Kwapong and David Parkes
Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR-20).
Rhodes, Greece, September 2020.
Intelligent Exploration and Autonomous Navigation in Confined Spaces
Aliakbar Akbari, Puneet Singh Chhabra, Ujjar Bhandari, and Sara Bernardini
Proc. of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-20).
Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 2020.
Target Search on Road Networks with Range-Constrained UAVs and Ground-based Mobile Recharging Vehicles
Kyle Booth, Chiara Piacentini, Sara Bernardini, and Christopher Beck
Proc. of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-20).
Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 2020.
Target Search on Road Networks with Range-Constrained UAVs and Ground-based Mobile Recharging Vehicles
Kyle Booth, Chiara Piacentini, Sara Bernardini, and Christopher Beck
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
Volume 5, Issue 4, October 2020.
The Design of Prometheus: A Re-configurable UAV for Subterranean Mine Inspection
Liam Brown, Robert Clarke, Ali Akbari, Ujjar Bhandari, Sara Bernardini, Puneet Chhabra, Ognjen Marjanovic, Thomas Richardson, Simon Watson
Robotics 2020, 9(4), 95, November 2020.
2019
Autonomous Target Search with Multiple Coordinated UAVs
Chiara Piacentini, Sara Bernardini and Chris Beck
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).
Volume 65, Pages 519-568, August 2019.
2018
Extracting Mutual Exclusion Invariants from Lifted Temporal Planning Domains
Sara Bernardini, Fabio Fagnani and David E. Smith
Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) (Impact Factor: 14.4).
Volume 258, Pages 1-65, May 2018, Elsevier.
Blending Human and Artificial Intelligence to Support Autistic Children’s Social Skills
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Alyssa Alcorn, Katerina Avramides, Sara Bernardini, et al.
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.
Volume 25, Number 6, Pages 1-35, December 2018, ACM.
Extracting Mutual Exclusion Invariants from Lifted Temporal Planning Domains
Sara Bernardini, Fabio Fagnani and David E. Smith
Proc. of the 28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-18).
Delft, The Netherlands, June 2018.
Blending Human and Artificial Intelligence to Support Autistic Children’s Social Skills
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Alyssa Alcorn, Katerina Avramides, Sara Bernardini, et al.
Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Glasgow, UK, May 2019.
2017
Combining Temporal Planning with Probabilistic Reasoning for Autonomous Surveillance Missions
Sara Bernardini, Maria Fox and Derek Long
Autonomous Robots (AURO) (5-year impact factor: 4.262 ), Vol. 41, No. 1, 01.2017, p. 181-203, Springer.
Boosting Search Guidance in Problems with Semantic Attachments
Sara Bernardini, Maria Fox, Derek Long and Chiara Piacentini
Proceedings of the Twenty Seventh International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-17).
Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 2017.
Deterministic vs Probabilistic Methods for Searching for an Evasive Target
Sara Bernardini, Maria Fox, Derek Long and Chiara Piacentini
Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17) (Acceptance rate: 25%).
San Francisco, CA, February 2017.
Policy Conflict Resolution in IoT via Planning
Emre Göynügür, Sara Bernardini, Geeth De Mel, Kartik Talamadupula and Murat Sensoy
Proceedings of the 30th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Edmonton, Alberta, May 2017.
2016
Leveraging Probabilistic Reasoning in Deterministic Planning for Large-Scale Autonomous Search-and-Tracking
Sara Bernardini, Maria Fox, Derek Long and Chiara Piacentini
Proc. of the 26th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-16) (Acceptance rate: 35%).
London, UK, June 2016.
Planning Autonomous Underwater Reconnaissance Operations
Sara Bernardini, Maria Fox, Derek Long and Bram Ridder
Proc. of the 10th Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop (SPARK)
26th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-16).
London, UK, June 2016.
2015
In Search of a Lost Target via Monte Carlo Simulation and Automated Planning
Sara Bernardini, Maria Fox and Derek Long
Proc. of the 6th Italian Workshop on Automated Planning and Scheduling (IPS- 15).
Ferrara, Italy, September 2015.
2014
Planning the Behaviour of Low-Cost Quadcopters for Surveillance Missions
Sara Bernardini, Maria Fox and Derek Long
Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-14).
Portsmouth, NH, USA, June 2014.
Automated Planning of Simple Persuasion Dialogues
Elisabeth Black, Amanda Coles and Sara Bernardini
Proc. of the 15th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA-14).
Prague, Czech Republic, July 2014.
2013
ECHOES: an Intelligent Serious Game for Fostering Social Communication in Children with Autism
Sara Bernardini, Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Tim Smith
Information Sciences (5-year impact factor: 4.732) , Elsevier, Volume 264, 2013, pp.41-60.
Planning the Behaviour of Low-Cost Quadcopters for Surveillance Missions
Sara Bernardini, Maria Fox and Derek Long
Proc. of the 5th Italian Workshop on Automated Planning and Scheduling (IPS-13).
Torino, Italy, December 2013.
Autonomous Search and Tracking via Temporal Planning
Sara Bernardini, Maria Fox, Derek Long and John Bookless
Proc. of the 23rd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-13).
Rome, Italy, June 2013.
Automated Planning and Policy Learning for Surveillance Missions
Sara Bernardini, Maria Fox and Derek Long
Proc. of the 8th International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space (IWPSS-13).
Moffett Field, CA, USA, March 2013.
Planning-Based Social Partners for Children with Autism
Sara Bernardini and Kaska Porayska-Pomsta
Proc. of the 23rd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-13).
Rome, Italy, June 2013.
Designing an Intelligent Virtual Agent for Social Communication in Autism
Sara Bernardini, Kaska Porayska-Pomsta and Harini Sampath
Proc. of the 9th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-13).
Boston, MA, USA, October 2013.
Building an Intelligent, Authorable Serious Game for Autistic Children and Their Carers
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Keith Anderson, Sara Bernardini, Karen Guldberg, Tim Smith, Lila Kossivaki, Scott Hodgins and Ian Lowe
Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE-13).
Enschede, the Netherlands, November 2013.
The TARDIS framework: Intelligent virtual agents for social coaching in job interviews
K. Anderson, E. André, T. Baur, S. Bernardini, M. Chollet, E. Chryssafidou, I. Damian, C. Ennis, A. Egges, P. Gebhard, H. Jones, M. Ochs, C. Pelachaud, K. Porayska-Pomsta, P. Rizzo, and N. Sabouret
Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE-13).
Enschede, the Netherlands, November 2013.
Modelling Users' Affect in Job Interviews: Technological Demo
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Keith Anderson, Ionut Damian, Tobias Baur, Elisabeth Andre, Sara Bernardini and Paola Rizzo
Proc. of the 21st Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP-13).
Rome, Italy, June 2013.
Most Participative Demo Award