Jochen Renz

According to our database, Jochen Renz authored at least 100 papers between 1997 and 2024.

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2024

NovPhy: A physical reasoning benchmark for open-world AI systems.

Vimukthini Pinto, Chathura Nagoda Gamage, Cheng Xue, Peng Zhang, Ekaterina Nikonova, Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz

Artif. Intell., 2024

ChatGPT4PCG 2 Competition: Prompt Engineering for Science Birds Level Generation.

Pittawat Taveekitworachai, Febri Abdullah, Mury F. Dewantoro, Yi Xia, Pratch Suntichaikul, Ruck Thawonmas, Julian Togelius, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2024

2023

Phy-Q as a measure for physical reasoning intelligence.

Cheng Xue, Vimukthini Pinto, Chathura Nagoda Gamage, Ekaterina Nikonova, Peng Zhang, Jochen Renz

Nat. Mac. Intell., January, 2023

Rapid Open-World Adaptation by Adaptation Principles Learning.

Cheng Xue, Ekaterina Nikonova, Peng Zhang, Jochen Renz

CoRR, 2023

Efficient Open-world Reinforcement Learning via Knowledge Distillation and Autonomous Rule Discovery.

Ekaterina Nikonova, Cheng Xue, Jochen Renz

CoRR, 2023

NovPhy: A Testbed for Physical Reasoning in Open-world Environments.

Chathura Nagoda Gamage, Vimukthini Pinto, Cheng Xue, Peng Zhang, Ekaterina Nikonova, Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz

CoRR, 2023

ChatGPT4PCG Competition: Character-like Level Generation for Science Birds.

Pittawat Taveekitworachai, Febri Abdullah, Mury F. Dewantoro, Ruck Thawonmas, Julian Togelius, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2023

The Difficulty of Novelty Detection and Adaptation in Physical Environments.

Vimukthini Pinto, Chathura Nagoda Gamage, Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the AI 2023: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2023

Physics-Based Task Generation through Causal Sequence of Physical Interactions.

Chathura Nagoda Gamage, Vimukthini Pinto, Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2023

2022

Don't do it: Safer Reinforcement Learning With Rule-based Guidance.

Ekaterina Nikonova, Cheng Xue, Jochen Renz

CoRR, 2022

Measuring Difficulty of Novelty Reaction.

Ekaterina Nikonova, Cheng Xue, Vimukthini Pinto, Chathura Nagoda Gamage, Peng Zhang, Jochen Renz

CoRR, 2022

Towards Explainable Action Recognition by Salient Qualitative Spatial Object Relation Chains.

Hua Hua, Dongxu Li, Ruiqi Li, Peng Zhang, Jochen Renz, Anthony G. Cohn

Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022

2021

Generating Stable Building Block Structures From Sketches.

Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz, Xiaoyu Ge, Peng Zhang

IEEE Trans. Games, 2021

Phy-Q: A Benchmark for Physical Reasoning.

Cheng Xue, Vimukthini Pinto, Chathura Nagoda Gamage, Ekaterina Nikonova, Peng Zhang, Jochen Renz

CoRR, 2021

The Difficulty of Novelty Detection in Open-World Physical Domains: An Application to Angry Birds.

Vimukthini Pinto, Cheng Xue, Chathura Nagoda Gamage, Jochen Renz

CoRR, 2021

Spatial concepts in the conversation with a computer.

Stephan Winter, Timothy Baldwin, Martin Tomko, Jochen Renz, Werner Kuhn, Maria Vasardani

Commun. ACM, 2021

Unsupervised Novelty Characterization in Physical Environments Using Qualitative Spatial Relations.

Ruiqi Li, Hua Hua, Patrik Haslum, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, 2021

Novelty Generation Framework for AI Agents in Angry Birds Style Physics Games.

Chathura Nagoda Gamage, Vimukthini Pinto, Cheng Xue, Matthew Stephenson, Peng Zhang, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2021

Deceptive Level Generation for Angry Birds.

Chathura Nagoda Gamage, Vimukthini Pinto, Jochen Renz, Matthew Stephenson

Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2021

2020

The computational complexity of Angry Birds.

Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz, Xiaoyu Ge

Artif. Intell., 2020

The Computational Complexity of Angry Birds (Extended Abstract).

Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz, Xiaoyu Ge

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020

A Continuous Information Gain Measure to Find the Most Discriminatory Problems for AI Benchmarking.

Matthew Stephenson, Damien Anderson, Ahmed Khalifa, John Levine, Jochen Renz, Julian Togelius, Christoph Salge

Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2020

2019

The 2017 AIBIRDS Level Generation Competition.

Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz, Xiaoyu Ge, Lucas Ferreira, Julian Togelius, Peng Zhang

IEEE Trans. Games, 2019

AI meets Angry Birds.

Jochen Renz, Xiaoyu Ge, Matthew Stephenson, Peng Zhang

Nat. Mach. Intell., 2019

Agent-Based Adaptive Level Generation for Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Angry Birds.

Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz

CoRR, 2019

Support Relation Analysis for Objects in Multiple View RGB-D Images.

Peng Zhang, Xiaoyu Ge, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence. IJCAI 2019 International Workshops, 2019

Qualitative Place Maps for Landmark-based Localization and Navigation in GPS-denied Environments.

Hua Hua, Peng Zhang, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2019

Using Restart Heuristics to Improve Agent Performance in Angry Birds.

Tommy Liu, Jochen Renz, Peng Zhang, Matthew Stephenson

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2019

2018

The 2017 AIBIRDS Competition.

Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz, Xiaoyu Ge, Peng Zhang

CoRR, 2018

Qualitative Representation and Reasoning over Direction Relations across Different Frames of Reference.

Hua Hua, Jochen Renz, Xiaoyu Ge

Proceedings of the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference, 2018

Towards Explainable Inference about Object Motion using Qualitative Reasoning.

Xiaoyu Ge, Jochen Renz, Hua Hua

Proceedings of the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference, 2018

Deceptive angry birds: towards smarter game-playing agents.

Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2018

Deceptive Games.

Damien Anderson, Matthew Stephenson, Julian Togelius, Christoph Salge, John Levine, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, 2018

2017

Generating varied, stable and solvable levels for angry birds style physics games.

Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2017

Introducing real world physics and macro-actions to general video game ai.

Diego Perez Liebana, Matthew Stephenson, Raluca D. Gaina, Jochen Renz, Simon M. Lucas

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2017

The Computational Complexity of Angry Birds and Similar Physics-Simulation Games.

Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz, Xiaoyu Ge

Proceedings of the Thirteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-17), 2017

Creating a Hyper-Agent for Solving Angry Birds Levels.

Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Thirteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-17), 2017

2016

Guest Editorial: Physics-Based Simulation Games.

Jochen Renz, Risto Miikkulainen, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Mark H. M. Winands

IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games, 2016

Visual Detection of Unknown Objects in Video Games Using Qualitative Stability Analysis.

Xiaoyu Ge, Jochen Renz, Peng Zhang

IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games, 2016

Trend-Based Prediction of Spatial Change.

Xiaoyu Ge, Jae Hee Lee, Jochen Renz, Peng Zhang

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016

Creating a New Angry Birds Competition Track.

Rohan Verma, Xiaoyu Ge, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2016

Hole in One: Using Qualitative Reasoning for Solving Hard Physical Puzzle Problems.

Xiaoyu Ge, Jae Hee Lee, Jochen Renz, Peng Zhang

Proceedings of the ECAI 2016 - 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 29 August-2 September 2016, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2016

Procedural generation of complex stable structures for angry birds levels.

Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2016

Procedural Generation of Levels for Angry Birds Style Physics Games.

Matthew Stephenson, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Twelfth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2016

Angry Birds as a Challenge for Artificial Intelligence.

Jochen Renz, Xiaoyu Ge, Rohan Verma, Peng Zhang

Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016

2015

On Qualitative Route Descriptions.

Matthias Westphal, Stefan Wölfl, Bernhard Nebel, Jochen Renz

J. Philos. Log., 2015

The Angry Birds AI Competition.

Jochen Renz, Xiaoyu Ge, Stephen Gould, Peng Zhang

AI Mag., 2015

From Raw Sensor Data to Detailed Spatial Knowledge.

Peng Zhang, Jae Hee Lee, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015

AIBIRDS: The Angry Birds Artificial Intelligence Competition.

Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015

2014

Reasoning about Topological and Cardinal Direction Relations Between 2-Dimensional Spatial Objects.

Anthony G. Cohn, Sanjiang Li, Weiming Liu, Jochen Renz

J. Artif. Intell. Res., 2014

Tracking Perceptually Indistinguishable Objects Using Spatial Reasoning.

Xiaoyu Ge, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the PRICAI 2014: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, 2014

Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning in Angry Birds: The Extended Rectangle Algebra.

Peng Zhang, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference, 2014

Determining Interacting Objects in Human-Centric Activities via Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Reasoning.

Hajar Sadeghi Sokeh, Stephen Gould, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ACCV 2014, 2014

2013

Decomposition and tractability in qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning.

Jinbo Huang, Jason Jingshi Li, Jochen Renz

Artif. Intell., 2013

Efficient Extraction and Representation of Spatial Information from Video Data.

Hajar Sadeghi Sokeh, Stephen Gould, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the IJCAI 2013, 2013

StarVars - Effective Reasoning about Relative Directions.

Jae Hee Lee, Jochen Renz, Diedrich Wolter

Proceedings of the IJCAI 2013, 2013

Representation and Reasoning about General Solid Rectangles.

Xiaoyu Ge, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the IJCAI 2013, 2013

2012

Implicit Constraints for Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning.

Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference, 2012

Thinking Inside the Box: A Comprehensive Spatial Representation for Video Analysis.

Anthony G. Cohn, Jochen Renz, Muralikrishna Sridhar

Proceedings of the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference, 2012

2011

On Qualitative Route Descriptions: Representation and Computational Complexity.

Matthias Westphal, Stefan Wölfl, Bernhard Nebel, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the IJCAI 2011, 2011

Evaluating and minimizing ambiguities in qualitative route instructions.

Matthias Westphal, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2011

2010

Decentralized querying of topological relations between regions without using localization.

Matt Duckham, Myeong-Hun Jeong, Sanjiang Li, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2010

A Qualitative Representation of Route Networks.

Jochen Renz, Stefan Wölfl

Proceedings of the ECAI 2010, 2010

10412 Summary and Abstracts Collection - QSTRLib: A Benchmark Problem Repository for Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning.

Stefan Wölfl, Anthony G. Cohn, Jochen Renz, Georg Sutcliffe

Proceedings of the QSTRLib: A Benchmark Problem Repository for Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, 10.10., 2010

In Defense of Large Qualitative Calculi.

Jason Jingshi Li, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2010

2009

A Fixed-Parameter Tractable Algorithm for Spatio-Temporal Calendar Management.

Bernhard Nebel, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the IJCAI 2009, 2009

Combining RCC-8 with Qualitative Direction Calculi: Algorithms and Complexity.

Weiming Liu, Sanjiang Li, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the IJCAI 2009, 2009

A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Solving Interval Algebra Networks.

Jason Jingshi Li, Jinbo Huang, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the IJCAI 2009, 2009

2008

Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning.

Anthony G. Cohn, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Handbook of Knowledge Representation, 2008

Spatial and Temporal Reasoning.

Hans W. Guesgen, Gérard Ligozat, Jochen Renz, Rita V. Rodríguez

Spatial Cogn. Comput., 2008

Examining the motivations of defection in large-scale open systems.

Rowan Martin-Hughes, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2008

Automated Complexity Proofs for Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Calculi.

Jochen Renz, Jason Jingshi Li

Proceedings of the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference, 2008

Combining binary constraint networks in qualitative reasoning.

Jason Jingshi Li, Tomasz Kowalski, Jochen Renz, Sanjiang Li

Proceedings of the ECAI 2008, 2008

Experience and Trust - A Systems-Theoretic Approach.

Norman Foo, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the ECAI 2008, 2008

2007

Qualitative Spatial Reasoning Using Constraint Calculi.

Jochen Renz, Bernhard Nebel

Proceedings of the Handbook of Spatial Logics, 2007

AAAI-07 Workshop Reports.

Sarabjot Singh Anand, Daniel Bahls, Catherina Burghart, Mark H. Burstein, Huajun Chen, John Collins, Thomas G. Dietterich, Jon Doyle, Chris Drummond, William Elazmeh, Christopher W. Geib, Judy Goldsmith, Hans W. Guesgen, Jim Hendler, Dietmar Jannach, Nathalie Japkowicz, Ulrich Junker, Gal A. Kaminka, Alfred Kobsa, Jérôme Lang, David B. Leake, Lundy Lewis, Gerard Ligozat, Sofus A. Macskassy, Drew V. McDermott, Ted Metzler, Bamshad Mobasher, Ullas Nambiar, Zaiqing Nie, Klas Orsvärn, Barry O'Sullivan, David V. Pynadath, Jochen Renz, Rita V. Rodríguez, Thomas Roth-Berghofer, Stefan Schulz, Rudi Studer, Yimin Wang, Michael P. Wellman

AI Mag., 2007

Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning: Efficient Algorithms for Everyone.

Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the IJCAI 2007, 2007

Customizing Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Calculi.

Jochen Renz, Falko Schmid

Proceedings of the AI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2007

2005

Weak Composition for Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning.

Jochen Renz, Gérard Ligozat

Proceedings of the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, 2005

2004

Spatial and temporal reasoning.

Jochen Renz, Hans W. Guesgen

AI Commun., 2004

Qualitative Direction Calculi with Arbitrary Granularity.

Jochen Renz, Debasis Mitra

Proceedings of the PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, 2004

What Is a Qualitative Calculus? A General Framework.

Gérard Ligozat, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, 2004

Problems with Local Consistency for Qualitative Calculi.

Gérard Ligozat, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the 16th Eureopean Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004

2003

2003 AAAI Spring Symposium Series.

Andreas Abecker, Erik K. Antonsson, Charles B. Callaway, Virginia Dignum, Patrick Doherty, Ludger van Elst, Michael Freed, Reva Freedman, Hans W. Guesgen, Gareth J. F. Jones, John R. Koza, David Kortenkamp, Mark T. Maybury, John McCarthy, Debasis Mitra, Jochen Renz, Debra Schreckenghost, Mary-Anne Williams

AI Mag., 2003

2002

A Canonical Model of the Region Connection Calculus.

Jochen Renz

J. Appl. Non Class. Logics, 2002

Combining topological and size information for spatial reasoning.

Alfonso Gerevini, Jochen Renz

Artif. Intell., 2002

Disjunctions, independence, refinements.

Mathias Broxvall, Peter Jonsson, Jochen Renz

Artif. Intell., 2002

Qualitative Spatial Reasoning with Topological Information

Jochen Renz

Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2293, Springer, ISBN: 3-540-43346-5, 2002

2001

Efficient Methods for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning.

Jochen Renz, Bernhard Nebel

J. Artif. Intell. Res., 2001

A Spatial Odyssey of the Interval Algebra: 1. Directed Intervals.

Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2001

2000

Towards Cognitive Adequacy of Topological Spatial Relations.

Jochen Renz, Reinhold Rauh, Markus Knauff

Proceedings of the Spatial Cognition II, 2000

Qualitative Spatial Reasoning about Line Segments.

Reinhard Moratz, Jochen Renz, Diedrich Wolter

Proceedings of the ECAI 2000, 2000

Refinements and Independence: A Simple Method for Identifying Tractable Disjunctive Constraints.

Mathias Broxvall, Peter Jonsson, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, 2000

1999

On the Complexity of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning: A Maximal Tractable Fragment of the Region Connection Calculus.

Jochen Renz, Bernhard Nebel

Artif. Intell., 1999

Maximal Tractable Fragments of the Region Connection Calculus: A Complete Analysis.

Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1999

1998

4. Frühjahrstreffen der kognitionswissenschaftlichen Graduiertenkollegs Freiburg, Hamburg und Saarbrücken.

Katja Lay, Christoph Hölscher, Jochen Renz

Kognitionswissenschaft, 1998

Spatial Reasoning with Topological Information.

Jochen Renz, Bernhard Nebel

Proceedings of the Spatial Cognition, 1998

Efficient Algorithms for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning.

Jochen Renz, Bernhard Nebel

Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1998

Combining Topological and Qualitative Size Constraints for Spatial Reasoning.

Alfonso Gerevini, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, 1998

1997

A Cognitive Assessment of Topological Spatial Relations: Results from an Empirical Investigation.

Markus Knauff, Reinhold Rauh, Jochen Renz

Proceedings of the Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS, 1997