Fred Garcia's Publications

Journals
Proceedings
Talks
Book chapters
Thesis
Technical reports

Journals

M.-J. Cros, M. Duru, F. Garcia and R. Martin-Clouaire. Simulating management strategies: the rotational grazing example. Agricultural systems, 80 (2004).

J.-E. Bergez, F. Garcia and L. Lapasse. A hierarchical partitioning method for optimizing irrigation strategies. Agricultural systems, 80 (2004).

M.-J. Cros, M. Duru, F. Garcia and R. Martin-Clouaire. A biophysical dairy farm model to evaluate rotational grazing management strategies. Agronomie, 23(2) (2003).

M.-J. Cros, F. Garcia, R. Martin-Clouaire and J.-P. Rellier. Modeling management operations in agricultural production simulators. Agricultural Engineering International: the CIGR electronic Journal of Scientific Research and Development, 5 (2003).

Marie-José Cros, Michel Duru, Frédérick Garcia and Roger Martin-Clouaire. Simulating rotational grazing management. Journal of Environment International, 27 (2001).

Jean-Marie Attonaty, Marie-Hélène Chatelin and Frédérick Garcia. Interactive simulation modeling in farm decision making. Journal of Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 22(2-3), pages 157-170 (april 1999).

Frédérick Garcia, Philippe Laborie. Hiérarchisation dynamique de la recherche d'un plan : application au planificateur IxTeT. Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle, vol 12 (2) (avril 1998).

Célia Da Costa Pereira, Frédérick Garcia, Jérôme Lang and Roger Martin-Clouaire. Planning with graded nondeterministic actions: A possibilistic approach. International Journal of Intelligent Systems. Special Issue on "Fuzzy Information Engineering", vol 12 (12) (december 1997).

Frédérick Garcia et Seydina Ndiaye. Apprentissage par renforcement en horizon fini I : comparaison du Q-learning et du R-learning. revue READ, vol 1 (1) (mai 1997).

Frédérick Garcia et Seydina Ndiaye. Apprentissage par renforcement en horizon fini II : analyse par la méthode de l'ODE. revue READ, vol 1 (1) (mai 1997).

Proceedings

J.-E. Bergez, F. Garcia, D. Leenhardt and L. Maton. Optimising irrigation management at the plot scale to participate at the regional scale water resource management. In Proceedings of the Workshop IFAC, Modelling and Control for Participatory Planning and Managing Water Systems Venice, Venice, Italy (september 2004)

L. Péret, L. J. Eriksson, F. Garcia and P. Wikström. A Markov Decision Process approach for the stand management problem. In Proceedings of the European Workshop on Sequential Decisions under Uncertainty in Agriculture and Natural Resources (EWDA 2004), D. Parsons, ed., Silsoe (september 2004)

J.E. Bergez, F. Garcia, R. Martin-Clouaire, J.-M. Nolot and J.-P. Rellier. Anticipation in agricultural management. In Proceedings of the European Workshop on Sequential Decisions under Uncertainty in Agriculture and Natural Resources (EWDA 2004), D. Parsons, ed., Silsoe (september 2004)

L. Péret and F. Garcia. On-line search for solving large Markov decision processes.. In Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI2004), Valence, Spain (august 2004)

F. Garcia and R. Martin-Clouaire. Work as an object of scientific investigation with computer simulation. In Proceedings of the CIOSTA-2003 conference, Torino, Italy, 2003

J.-E. Bergez, H. Cardot and F. Garcia. Quantile regression trees in irrigation management. In Proceedings of the Europ. Conf. On Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA'03), Debrecen, Hungary (July 2003).

G. Verfaillie, F. Garcia and L. Péret. Deployment and Maintenance of a Constellation of Satellites: a Benchmark.. In Proceedings of the ICAPS'03 Workshop on Planning under Uncertainty and Incomplete Information, Trento, Italy, (june 2003)

M. Duru, F. Coléno, M.-J. Cros, F. Garcia, R. Martin-Clouaire. Modeling grazing systems in dairy production. In Proceedings of the Symposium Int. of Animal Production, Everling D., Ferreira de Quadros F., Viégas J. et al., editors, Santa Maria, Brésil (septembre 2002).

J.-E. Bergez and F. Garcia. A hierchical partitioning method for optimizing irrigation strategies. In Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Sequential Decisions under Uncertainty in Agriculture and Natural Resources (EWDA 2002), F. Garcia ed., pp. 39-44, Toulouse, (september 2002)

H. Cardot, L. Snoeck, J.-E. Bergez and F. Garcia. Quantile regression trees for predicting irrigated maize crop yield. In Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Sequential Decisions under Uncertainty in Agriculture and Natural Resources (EWDA 2002), F. Garcia ed., pp. 77-82, Toulouse, (september 2002)

M.-J. Cros, M. Duru, F. Garcia and R. Martin-Clouaire. Modeling and simulating agricultural production processes. In Proceedings of the 2002 ASAE Annual International Meeting, Chicago, (July 2002)

L. Péret and F. Garcia. Une approche par recherche arborescente pour améliorer des politiques issues d'un apprentissage par renforcement. Actes de la Conférence Apprentissage (Cap 2002), Orléans, (juin 2002).

L. Cucala, F. Garcia et R. Sabbadin. Résolution approchée de Processus Décisionnels Markoviens de grande taille. Actes du 13ème congrès Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle (RFIA 2002), Angers, vol. 1, pages 181-190, (janvier 2002).

F. Garcia and R. Sabbadin. Solving large weakly coupled Markov Decision Processes: Application to forest management. In Proceedings of the international congress on modelling and simulation (MODSIM'01), Eds. Ghassemi F., Mc Aleer M., Oxley L. and Scoccimarro M., Canberra, vol. 4, pages 1707-1712, (december 2001). Frédérick Garcia and Florent Serre. From Q(lambda) to Average Q-learning: Efficient Implementation of an Asymptotic Approximation. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'01), Seattle, USA (august 2001).

Marie-José Cros, Frédérick Garcia, Roger Martin-Clouaire and Michel Duru. Simulation optimization of grazing management strategies. In Proceedings of the 3rd Europ. Conf. On Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA'01), Montpellier, France (june 2001).

Jacques-Eric Bergez, Mark Eigenraam and Frédérick Garcia. Comparison between dynamic programming and reinforcement learning: A case study on maize irrigation management. In Proceedings of the 3rd Europ. Conf. On Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA'01), Montpellier, France (june 2001).

Frédérick Garcia, Roger Martin-Clouaire and Nguyen Linh Giang. Generating decision rules by reinforcement learning for a class of crop management problems. In Proceedings of the 3rd Europ. Conf. On Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA'01), Montpellier, France (june 2001).

Frédérick Garcia, Laurent Péret, Linda Tomasini and Gérard Verfaillie. A Markov Decision Problem approach for the deployment and the maintenance of a satellite constallation.. In Proceedings of the The 6th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS'01), Montreal, Canada (june 2001).

Frédérick Garcia, Jérôme Lang et Abdel-Illah Mouaddib. Processus Décisionnels de Markov. Actes de l'école thématique "Nouveaux défis en Sciences de l'Information : Documents et Evolution" du GDR-I3, Marseille (septembre 2000).

Frédérick Garcia and Florent Serre. Efficient Asymptotic Approximation in Temporal Difference Learning. In Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'00), pages 296-300, Berlin, Germany (august 2000).

Frédérick Garcia et Florent Serre. AQ-learning : une approximation asymptotique optimisée de Q(lambda). Actes de la Conférence Apprentissage (Cap 2000), Saint-Etienne (juin 2000).

André Cabarbaye, Frédérick Garcia, Julien Séroi et Linda Tomasini. Optimisation de la maintenance d'une constellation de satellites. Actes du colloque Lambda-Mu-2000, Montpellier (mars 2000).

Frédérick Garcia et Florent Serre. Average TD(lambda) : une version asymptotique de TD(lambda) pour une analyse de l'effet du paramètre lambda. Actes de la Conférence Nationale en Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle(RFIA'00), Paris (février 2000).

Frédérick Garcia. Use of reinforcement learning and simulation to optimize wheat crop technical management. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM'99), pages 801-806, Hamilton, New-Zealand (december 1999).

Marie-José Cros, Michel Duru, Frédérick Garcia and Roger Martin-Clouaire. A DSS for rotational grazing management: simulating both the biophysical and decision making processes. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM'99), pages 759-764, Hamilton, New-Zealand (december 1999).

Marie-José Cros, Frédérick Garcia and Roger Martin-Clouaire. SEPATOU: a decision support system for the management of rotational grazing in a dairy production. In Proceedings of the 2nd Europ. Conf. On Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA'99), Bonn, Germany (september 1999).

Frédérick Garcia and Seydina Ndiaye. A simulation-based learning tool to design crop management strategies. In Proceedings of the Sixth European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing (EUFIT'98), pages 1088-1092, Aachen, Germany (september 1998).

Frédérick Garcia and Seydina Ndiaye. A learning rate analysis of Reinforcement Learning algorithms in Finite-Horizon. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'98), Madison, USA (july 1998).

Célia Da Costa Pereira, Frédérick Garcia, Jérôme Lang and Roger Martin-Clouaire. Possibilistic planning: representation and complexity. In Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Planning (ECP'97), Toulouse, France (septembre 1997).

Jean-Marie Attonaty, Marie-Hélène Chatelin, Frédérick Garcia and Seydina Ndiaye. Using extended machine learning and simulation technics to design crop management strategies. In Proceedings of the 1st European Conference for Information Technology in Agriculture, Copenhagen, Denmark (june 1997).

Marie-José Cros, Michel Duru, Frédérick Garcia and Roger Martin-Clouaire. Characterizing and simulating a rotational grazing strategy. In Proceedings of the 1st European Conference for Information Technology in Agriculture, Copenhagen, Denmark (june 1997).

Frédérick Garcia et Seydina Ndiaye. Apprentissage par renforcement : analyse des critères moyen et gamma-pondérés en horizon fini. Actes des JFA'97, Roscoff (mai 1997). [Transparents].

Frédérick Garcia. Apprentissage et Planification. Conférence invitéee, actes des JFA'97, Roscoff (mai 1997). [Transparents].

Frédérick Garcia, Eric Jacopin et Pierre Régnier. Planification : un panorama des recherches françaises. Actes des 6ème journées nationales du PRC-GDR IA, Grenoble (mars 1997). [Transparents.

Groupe GDR-PRCIA. Décision et représentation des connaissance. Actes des 6ème journées nationales du PRC-GDR IA, Grenoble (mars 1997).

Célia Da Costa Pereira, Frédérick Garcia, Jérôme Lang and Roger Martin-Clouaire. A Possibilistic approach to planning. In Proceedings of the Fourth European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing (EUFIT'96), pages 632-636, Aachen, Germany (september 1996).

Jean-Marie Attonaty, Marie-Hélène Chatelin, Frédérick Garcia. Interactive simulation modelling in farm decision making. In Proceedings of the 6th international Congress for Computer Technology in Agriculture. Wageningen, NL (june 1996).

Frédérick Garcia, Roger Martin-Clouaire and Jean-Pierre Rellier. Toward more Powerful knowledge representation and algorithmic approaches of the crop management problem. In Proceedings of EUNITA Seminar on Risk Management Strategies in Agriculture, Wageningen, NL (January 1996).

Frédérick Garcia, Philippe Laborie. Hierarchisation of the Search Space in Temporal Planning. Third European Workshop on Planning, Assisi, Italy (septembre 1995). In M. Ghallab and A. Milani editors, New Directions in AI Planning, Amsterdam, IOS Press (1996).

Frédérick Garcia. Planning with Deduced Facts : a State-Space Based Approach. Second European Workshop on Planning, Vadstena, Sweden (décembre 1993). In E. Sandewall and C. Backstrom, editors, Current Trends in AI Planning, Amsterdam, IOS Press (1994).

R. Alami, M. Borillo, F. Garcia, M. Ghallab, H. Laruelle, R. Mampey et T. Vidal. Représentation et algorithmes pour la planification et l'action. Actes des 4ème journées nationales du PRC-GDR IA, Marseille (octobre 1992).

Garcia, R. Mampey et C. Barrouil. Génération de plans et révision de connaissances. Actes RFIA'91, Lyon (novembre 1991).

F. Garcia et R. Mampey. Mobile Robot Motion Planning by Reasoning both at Itinerary ant Path Levels. In Proceedings ICAR'91, Pise, Italy (juin 1991).

Talks

M.-O. Cordier, V. Masson, P. Aurousseau, C. Gascuel, F. Tortrat, M. Falchier, D. Heddadj, L. Lebouille, F. Garcia, B. Chanomordic. SACADEAU: A decision-aid system to improve streamwater quality relying on a pesticide transfer model. In Workshop BESAI, 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI2004) (poster), Valence, Spain (august 2004).

L. Péret and F. Garcia. On-line search for solving large Markov Decision Processes. In Proc. of EWRL-6 European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning, Nancy, June 2003.

F. Garcia et L. Péret. Optimisation par simulation de systèmes complexes. In Actes du 5ème congrès de la Société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la Décision (Roadef 2003), Avignon, 26-28 février 2003.

F. Garcia. ATD and AQ-learning: reward baseline reinforcement learning algorithms for discounted reward problems. In Proc. of the Fifth European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL-5), Utrecht, The Netherlands (october 2001).

Frédérick Garcia and Florent Serre. Average TD(lambda): a factored asymptotic formulation of TD(lambda). Fourth European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL-4), Lugano, Switzerland (october 1999). [Transparents]

Jacques-Eric Bergez and Frédérick Garcia. Methods for improving decision rules: application to irrigation scheduling of maize crops. In Proceedings of the International symposium ESA on modelling cropping systems, pages 145-146, Lleida, Spain (june 1999).

Dominique Courault, Frédérick Garcia, Françoise Ruget and Delphine Leenhardt. Impact of spatial climatic variations on the outputs of crop models applied at regional scale. In Proceedings of the International symposium ESA on modelling cropping systems, pages 163-164, Lleida, Spain (june 1999).

André Cabarbaye, Frédérick Garcia et Linda Tomasini. Apport de l'apprentissage par renforcement aux problèmes de maintenance optimale : application aux constellations de satellites. Actes de la 2nde Conférence Nationale sur la Recherche Opérationnelle et l'Aide à la Décision (ROADEF'99), page 151, Autrans (janvier 1999). [Transparents]

Frédérick Garcia. Apprentissage par renforcement pour l'élaboration d'un comportement rationnel chez un agent autonome. Conférence invitée des 1ère journées nationales du PRC-GDR I3, Lyon (juin 1998). [Transparents]

Marie-Hélène Chatelin et Frédérick Garcia. De l'emploi de modèles pour explorer de nouvelles stratégies de conduite de culture : application à la conduite du blé. 1ère Conférence Nationale sur la Recherche Opérationnelle et l'Aide à la Décision (ROADEF'98), Paris (janvier 1998). [Transparents].

Frédérick Garcia and Seydina Ndiaye. Reinforcement Learning in finite horizon: optimality criteria equivalence and the ODE method. Third European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL-3), Rennes (october 1997). [Transparents]

Book chapters

D. Courault, F. Garcia, M.-H. Chatelin, D. Leenhard et F. Ruget. Impact des variations climatiques locales induites par les cultures sur les rendements et la gestion des conduites. Chapitre de l'ouvrage Organisation spatiale des activités agricoles et processus environnementaux, P. Monestiez, S. Lardon et B. Seguin éditeurs, INRA Editions, Paris (2004).

M.-J. Cros, F. Garcia, R. Martin-Clouaire and J.-P. Rellier. Modeling and simulation. CIGR Handbook of Agricultural Engineering, Vol.6, ch. 3, 14 pages, (à paraître).

J.M. Alliot, T. Schiex, P. Brisset and F. Garcia. Intelligence Artificielle et Informatique théorique. Cépadues Editions, Toulouse, France (2002).

Frédérick Garcia. Apprentissage par renforcement. Chapitre de l'ouvrage collectif Apprentissage Machine du traité ``Information, Commande, Communication'' (IC2), sous la direction de Jean-Gabriel Ganascia et Jean-Daniel Zucker, éditions Hermes (2000, à paraître).

Frédérick Garcia et Seydina Ndiaye. Apprentissage par renforcement en horizon fini I : comparaison du Q-learning et du R-learning. Apprentissage par renforcement en horizon fini II : analyse par la méthode de l'ODE. Chapitres 2 et 3 de l'ouvrage collectif Apprentissage automatique, sous la direction de Gilles Venturini et Marc Sebban, éditions Hermes (1999).

Frédérick Garcia and Philippe Laborie. Hierarchisation of the search space in temporal planning. In M. Ghallab and A. Milani editors, New Directions in AI Planning, pages 217-232, Amsterdam, IOS Press (1996).

Frédérick Garcia. Planning with Deduced Facts : a State-Space Based Approach. In E. Sandewall and C. Backstrom, editors, Current Trends in AI Planning, Amsterdam, IOS Press (1994).

Thesis

Frédérick Garcia. Révision des croyances et révision du raisonnement pour la planification. Thèse de doctorat de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, Toulouse (février 1993).

Technical reports

Frédérick Garcia et Hervé Laruelle. The generalized state-variable formalism for planning: first results. Technical report, LAAS/CNRS Laboratory (1994).

Frédérick Garcia. Ordered abstraction hierachies for planning with context-dependent effects. Technical report, LAAS/CNRS Laboratory (1994).

Frédérick Garcia, Linda Tomasini. Fine Motion Assembly : High Level Formalism and Algorithms for Planning and Control. Technical report, Robotics Laboratory, CS Department, Stanford University, (1994).
 
 
 
 


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