Publications (By Year, By Topic)

    2012

  1. Pradyot, K. V. N., Manimaran, S. S., and Ravindran, B. (2012) "Instructing a Reinforcement Learner". To appear in the Proceedings of the Twenty Fifth Florida AI Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2012). AAAI Press.

  2. Gupte, P. and Ravindran, B. (2012) "Multiple Epsilon Equitable Partitions - Roles and Positional Analysis for Real World Networks". Accepted for presentation at the Thirty Second Sunbelt Social Networks Confernce (Sunbelt XXXII).+

  3. Dharwez, S., Shivashankar, S., and Ravindran, B. (2012) "Why Collective Classification is Successful? : A Homophily based Analysis on Network Data". Accepted for presentation at the Thirty Second Sunbelt Social Networks Confernce (Sunbelt XXXII).+

  4. Nunez-Varela, J., Ravindran, B., and Wyatt, J. L. (2012) "Where Do I Look Now? Gaze Allocation During Visually Guided Manipulation". To appear in the Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2012). IEEE Press.

  5. Chaganty, A., Gaur, P., and Ravindran, B. (2012) "Learning in a Small World". To appear in the Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012). ACM Press.

  6. Rangadurai, K. R., Hattiwale, V., and Ravindran, B. (2012) "Adaptive Network Intrusion Detection System using a Hybrid Approach". To appear in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on COMmunications Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS 2012). IEEE Press.

    2011

  7. Pradyot, K. V. N. and Ravindran, B. (2011) "Beyond Rewards: Learning with Richer Supervision". To appear in the Proceedings of the Ninth European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2011).+

  8. Sai Ramesh, M. and Ravindran, B. (2011) "Options with Exceptions". To appear in the Proceedings of the Ninth European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2011). Springer-Verlag.

  9. Saravanan, M., Bharanidharan, S., and Ravindran, B. (2011) "Collective Learning of the Community Effect on Chrun". Accepted at the Workshop on Collective Learning and Inference on Structured Data, held in conjunction with the Twenty Second European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML PKDD 2011).+

  10. Ananda Narayanan, B. and Ravindran, B. (2011) "Fractional Moments on Bandit Problems". In the Proceedings of the Twenty Seventh Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2011), pp. 531-538. AUAI Press. PDF

  11. Shivashankar, S., Srivathsan, S., Ravindran, B., and Tendulkar, A. V. (2011) "Multi-view Methods for Protein Structure Comparison using Latent Dirichlet Allocation". In Bioinformatics 2011 27(13): pp.i61-i68. OUP. (Special issue with the proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2011).)

  12. Swapna Raj P., and Ravindran, B. (2011) "Utility Driven Clustering". In the Proceedings of the Twenty Fourth Florida AI Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2011). AAAI Press.

  13. Malpani, A., Ravindran, B., and Murthy, H. A. (2011) "Personalized Intelligent Tutoring System Using Reinforcement Learning". In the Proceedings of the Twenty Third Florida AI Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2011). AAAI Press.

  14. Vijayasarthy, R., Ravindran, B., and Raghavan, S. V. (2011) "A System Approach to Network Modeling for DDoS Detection using Naive Bayesian Classifiers". In the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Communication and Networks (COMSNETS 2011). IEEE Press.

    2010

  15. Aadithya, K. V., Ravindran, B., Michalak, T., and Jennings, N. R. (2010) "Efficient Computation of the Shapley Value for Centrality in Networks". In the Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE 2010), pp. 1-13. Springer-Verlag. (Associated Technical Report PDF)

  16. Zaki, M.J., Yu, J.X., Ravindran, B., and Pudi, V. (Eds.) (2010) "Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining", Proceedings of the 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2010, Hyderabad, India, June 21-24, 2010. Springer-Verlag, LNCS. Part I, Part II.

  17. Maya, M., Chakravarthy, V. S., and Ravindran, B. (2010) "An Oscillatory Neural Network Model for Birdsong Learning and Generation". In the Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2010).

  18. Balaji, L., and Ravindran, B. (2010) "Transfer Learning Across Heterogeneous Robots with Action Sequence Mapping". In the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010), pp. 3251-3256. IEEE Press.

  19. Shivashankar, S., and Ravindran, B. (2010) "Multi Grain Sentiment Analysis using Collective Classification". In the Proceedings of the Nineteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010), pp. 823-828. IOS Press. PDF

  20. Saravanan, M., and Ravindran, B. (2010) "Identification of Rhetorical Roles for Segmentation and Summarization of a Legal Judgment". Artificial Intelligence and Law, Volume 18, Issue 1 (March, 2010), pp. 45-76. Springer. PDF (Springer Link)

  21. Magdoom, M., Subramanian, D., Ravindran, B., Chakravarthy, V. S., Shun-ichi-Amari, and Meenakshisundaram, N. (2010) "Modelling Basal Ganglia for Understanding Parkinsonian Reaching Movements". To appear in Neural Computation.

  22. Yousuf, A., and Ravindran, B. (2010) "Visual Object Detection using Frequent Pattern Mining". In the Proceedings of the Twenty Third Florida AI Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2010), pp. 98-103. AAAI Press. PDF

  23. Swapna Raj P., and Ravindran, B. (2010) "Mining Actionable Patterns". In the Proceedings of the Twenty Third Florida AI Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2010), pp. 444-445. AAAI Press. PDF

  24. Aswin, N. R., Manimaran S. S., Harini A., and Ravindran, B. (2010) "Accurate Mobile Robot Localization in Indoor environments using Bluetooth". In the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), pp. 4391-4396. IEEE Press. PDF

  25. Aadithya, K. V. and Ravindran, B. (2010) "Game Theoretic Network Centrality: Exact Formulas and Efficient Algorithms". In the Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), pp. 1459-1460. ACM Press. PDF

    2009

  26. Kate, K. and Ravindran, B. (2009) "Epsilon Equitable Partition: A Positional Analysis Method for Large Social Networks". In the Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD 2009). Abstract  PDF

  27. Shivashankar, S., Ravindran, B., and Srinivasa Raghavan, N. R. (2009) "Text mining of Internet content: The bridge connecting product research with customers in the digital era". In Product Research: The Art and Science Behind Successful Product Launches, Srinivasa Raghavan, N.R. and Cafeo, J. A. (Eds.), pp. 231-242, Nov. 2009. Springer. (Book Chapter).

  28. Mohamed, M., Chakravarthy, V. S., Subramanian, D., and Ravindran, B. (2009) "The Role of Basal Ganglia in Performing Simple Reaching Movements: A Computational Model". In the Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the International Graphonomics Society (IGS09).

  29. Bahuguna, J., Ravindran, B., and Krishna, K. M. (2009) "MDP based Active Localization for Multiple Robots". In the Proceedings of the Fifth Annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2009), pp. 635-640. IEEE Press. Abstract  PDF

  30. Malpani, A., Ravindran, B., and Murthy, H. A. (2009) "Personalized Intelligent Tutoring System Using Reinforcement Learning". Presented at the Multidisciplinary Symposium on Reinforcement Learning.+ (Preliminary version of the paper at FLAIRS 2011.)

  31. Mohamed, M., Chakravarthy, V. S., Subramanian, D., and Ravindran, B. (2009) "The Role of Basal Ganglia in Performing Simple Reaching Movements: A Computational Model". Presented at the Multidisciplinary Symposium on Reinforcement Learning.+ (Shorter version of the paper at IGS09.)

  32. Saravanan, M., Ravindran, B., and Raman, S. (2009) "Improving Legal Information Retrieval Using Ontological Framework". In Artificial Intelligence and Law, Online 14-May-2009. (In print) Volume 17, Issue 2 (2009), pp. 101-124. Springer.

    2008

  33. Swapna Raj, P. and Ravindran, B. (2008) "Personalized Web-page Rendering System". In the Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD 2008), pp. 30-39. Abstract  PDF

  34. Arora, R. and Ravindran, B. (2008) "Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Singular Value Decomposition based Multi-Document Summarization". In the Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008). IEEE Press. Abstract  PDF

  35. Balaji, L. and Ravindran, B. (2008) "Transfer Learning with Differently-abled Robots". In the IROS Workshop on Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning.+

  36. Arora, R. and Ravindran, B. (2008) "Latent Dirichlet Allocation Based Multi-Document Summarization". In the Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND 2008), pp. 91-97. ACM Press. Abstract  PDF (Best Student Paper)

  37. Cheboli, D. and Ravindran, B. (2008) "Detection of keratoconus by semi-supervised learning". In the ICML/UAI workshop on Machine Learning in health care applications.+ Abstract  PDF

  38. Narayanamurthy, S. M. and Ravindran, B. (2008) "On the Hardness of Finding Symmetries in Markov Decision Processes". In the Proceedings of the Twenty Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2008), pp. 688-696. AAAI Press. Abstract  PDF (Associated Technical Report PDF)

  39. Ray, A., Kumar, V., Ravindran, B., Dr. Lingam Gopal, and Dr. Verma, A. (2008) "Machine Learning to predict the incidence of Retinopathy of Prematurity". In the Proceedings of the Twenty First Florida AI Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2008), pp. 300-305. AAAI Press. Abstract  PDF

  40. Swaminathan, P. and Ravindran, B. (2008) "Co-SOFT-Clustering: An Information Theoretic approach to obtain overlapping clusters from co-occurrence data". In the Proceedings of the Twenty First Florida AI Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2008), pp. 320-321. AAAI Press. Abstract  PDF

  41. Sriram, R. and Ravindran, B. (2008) "Successive Refinement Algorithms for Distributed Area Coverage Using Mobile Robots". In the Proceedings of ACM Compute 2008, Article No. 20. ACM Press.

  42. Jayarajan, D., Deodhare, D., and Ravindran, B. (2008) "Lexical Chains as Document Features". In the Proceedings of the Third International Joint Confernce on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2008, pp. 111-117. Abstract  PDF

  43. Saravanan, M., Ravindran, B., and Raman, S. (2008) "Automatic Identification of Rhetorical Roles using Conditional Random Fields for Legal Document Summarization ". In the Proceedings of the Third International Joint Confernce on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2008, pp. 481-488. Abstract  PDF

    2007

  44. Saravanan, M., Ravindran, B., and Raman, S. (2007) "Legal Ontology for Query Enhancement". In the Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems(JURIX 2007), pp.171-172. IOS Press. Abstract  PDF

  45. Sarma, B.H.S. and Ravindran, B. (2007) "Intelligent Tutoring System using Reinforcement Learning to Teach Autistic Students". In the Proceedings of the Conference on Home/Community Oriented ICT for the Next Billion (HOIT 2007), pp. 65-78. Springer. Abstract  PDF

  46. Sriram, R. and Ravindran, B. (2007) "Homogeneous Hierarchical Composition of Areas in Multi-Robot Area Coverage". In the Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Abstraction, Approximation, and Reformulation (SARA 2007), pp. 300-313, LNAI 4612. Springer. Abstract  PDF

  47. Awasthi, P., Gagrani, A., and Ravindran, B. (2007) "Image Modeling using Tree Structured Conditional Random Fields". In the Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), pp. 2060-2065. AAAI Press. Abstract  PDF

  48. Narayanamurthy, S. M. and Ravindran, B. (2007) "Efficiently Exploiting Symmetries in Real Time Dynamic Programming". In the Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), pp. 2556-2561. AAAI Press. Abstract  PDF

  49. Ravindran, B., Barto, A. G., and Mathew, V. (2007) "Deictic Option Schemas". In the Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), pp. 1023-1028. AAAI Press. Abstract  PDF

  50. Jayarajan, D., Deodhare, D., Ravindran, B., and Sarkar, S. (2007) "Document Clustering using Lexical Chains". In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Text-Mining & Link-Analysis (TextLink 2007).+ Abstract  PDF

  51. Sriram, R. and Ravindran, B. (2007) "Profiling Pseudonet Architecture for Coordinating Mobile Robots". In the Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and MiddlewaRE (COMSWARE 2007). IEEE Press. Abstract  PDF

    2006

  52. Saravanan, M., Ravindran, B., and Raman, S. (2006) " Improving Legal Document Summarization using Graphical Models " In the Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems(JURIX 2006), pp. 51-60, IOS Press. Abstract  PDF

  53. Awasthi, P., Rao, D. G., and Ravindran, B. (2006) "Part Of Speech Tagging and Chunking with HMM and CRF". In the Proceedings of NLPAI Machine Learning Contest 2006 , Mumbai, India.+

  54. Gagrani, A., Gupta, L., Ravindran, B., Das, S., Roychowdhury, P., and Panchal, V. K. (2006) "A Hierarchical approach to Landform Classification of Satellite Images using a Fusion Strategy". In the Proceedings of Fifth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2006).

  55. Saravanan, M., Raman, S., and Ravindran, B. (2006) "A Probabilistic Approach to Multi-Document Summarization for Generating a Tiled Summary". In International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 231-244. Imperial College Press. (This is an expanded version of the conference paper below.) Abstract  PDF

    2005

  56. Saravanan, M., Raman, S., and Ravindran, B. (2005) "A Probabilistic Approach to Multi-Document Summarization for generating a Tiled Summary". In the Proceedings of the International Conference of Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications (ICCIMA '05).

  57. Siva Soumya, E., Manimegalai, R., Muralidharan V., Ravindran, B., Kamakoti, V., and Bhatia, D. (2005) "Placement and Routing for 3D-FPGAs using Reinforcement Learning and Support Vector Machines". In the Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on VLSI Design. Abstract  PDF

  58. Saravanan, M., Ravindran, B., and Raman, S. (2005) "A Review of Automatic Summarization". Presented in the Workshop on Optical character Recognition with workflow and Document Summarization, IIIT Allahabad, March 19-20.+

  59. Saravanan, M., Ravindran, B., and Raman, S. (2005) "Learn to Teach Autistic Children". Presented in the National Conference on Computational Intelligence (St. Joseph's College, Trichy), Feb 16-18.+

    2004

  60. Ravindran, B. and Barto, A. G. (2004) "Approximate Homomorphisms: A Framework for Non-exact Minimization in Markov Decision Processes". In the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems (KBCS 04). Abstract  PDF

  61. Ravindran, B. (2004) "An Algebraic Approach to Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning". Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA. Abstract  PDF

    2003

  62. Ravindran, B. and Barto, A. G. (2003) " Relativized Options: Choosing the Right Transformation". In the Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning(ICML 2003), pp. 608-615. AAAI Press. Abstract  PDF

  63. Ravindran, B. and Barto, A. G. (2003) " SMDP Homomorphisms: An Algebraic Approach to Abstraction in Semi Markov Decision Processes". In the Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 03), pp. 1011-1016. AAAI Press. Abstract  PDF

  64. Ravindran, B. and Barto, A. G. (2003) " An Algebraic Approach to Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning". In the Proceedings of the Twelfth Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, pp. 109-114. Yale University. Abstract  PDF

    1994-2002

  65. Ravindran, B. and Barto, A. G. (2002) " Model Minimization in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning". In the Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation (SARA 2002), pp.196-211, LNCS, Springer Verlag. (Slides from presentation: PPT) Abstract  PDF

  66. Ravindran, B. and Barto, A. G. (2001) " Symmetries and Model Minimization of Markov Decision Processes". Computer Science Technical Report 01-43, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. Abstract  PDF

  67. Sutton, R. S., Singh, S., Precup, D. and Ravindran, B. (1999) " Improved Switching among Temporally Abstract Actions". In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11 (Proceedings of NIPS'98), pp.1066-1072. MIT Press. Abstract  PDF

  68. McGovern, Amy , Precup, Doina, Ravindran, B., Singh, Satinder and Sutton, Richard S. (1998) " Hierarchical Optimal Control of MDPs", Proceedings of the Tenth Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, pp.186-191. Abstract  PDF

  69. Ravindran, B. (1996) "Solution of Delayed Reinforcement Learning Problems having Continuous Action Spaces", Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Abstract  PDF

  70. Keerthi, S. S. and Ravindran, B. (1996) " C3: Reinforcement Learning". In Handbook Of Neural Computation, E. Fiesler and R. Beale, Editors, Oxford University Press, U. K. Abstract  PDF

  71. Keerthi, S. S. and Ravindran, B. (1994) " A Tutorial Survey Of Reinforcement Learning". In Sadhana (Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences), Vol. 19, Dec. 1994, pp. 851-889. Abstract  PDF
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