@inproceedings{d23e92b2b8bf42ae980fdee358ceffd8,
title = "Multi-directional heuristic search",
abstract = "In the Multi-Agent Meeting problem (MAM), the task is to find a meeting location for multiple agents, as well as a path for each agent to that location. In this paper, we introduce MM*, a Multi-Directional Heuristic Search algorithm that finds the optimal meeting location under different cost functions. MM* generalizes the Meet in the Middle (MM) bidirectional search algorithm to the case of finding an optimal meeting location for multiple agents. Several admissible heuristics are proposed, and experiments demonstrate the benefits of MM*.",
author = "Dor Atzmon and Jiaoyang Li and Ariel Felner and Eliran Nachmani and Shahaf Shperberg and Nathan Sturtevant and Sven Koenig",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Inst. Sci. inf., Univ. Defence in Belgrade. All rights reserved.; 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2020 ; Conference date: 01-01-2021",
year = "2020",
month = jan,
day = "1",
language = "English",
series = "IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence",
publisher = "International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence",
pages = "4062--4068",
editor = "Christian Bessiere",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2020",
}