Prof Ian Miguel

Head of School

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3248

Email

ijm@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

C0.13

Location

Jack Cole Building (Computer Science )

 

Biography

I am a Professor and Head of School of the School of Computer Science at St Andrews, which I joined in 2004.

I have worked in Artificial Intelligence for over 25 years, specialising in solving combinatorial optimisation problems through Constraint Programming and related technologies.

Teaching

I presently teach on:

• CS4402: Constraint Programming
• CS4303: Video Games

Research areas

I work in Artificial Intelligence, specifically in solving complex combinatorial optimisation problems, such as planning, scheduling, or routing with technologies such as Constraint Programming or Propositional Satisfiability (SAT).

Much of our work in St Andrews has focused on the important problem of modelling. A model in this sense is the description of the problem we wish to solve suitable for input to an automated solver - the quality of the model has a very significant impact on solving performance. We have developed a Constraint Modelling Pipeline to automate this modelling process, compiling a high-level description of a problem down to a variety of powerful solving technologies.

PhD supervision

• Erdem Kus
• Yigit Yazicilar
• Carla Davesa Sureda

Selected publications

• Open access

  Automated nogood-filtered fine-grained streamlining: a case study on covering arrays

  Yazicilar, O. Y., Akgun, O. & Miguel, I. J., 2 Sept 2024, ModRef 2024 - The 23rd workshop on Constraint Modelling and Reformulation (ModRef). 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Open access

  Automatic feature learning for Essence: a case study on car sequencing

  Pellegrino, A., Akgün, Ö., Dang, N., Kiziltan, Z. & Miguel, I., 23 Sept 2024, ModRef 2024 - The 23rd workshop on Constraint Modelling and Reformulation (ModRef). 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Open access

  Cost-Efficient Training for Automated Algorithm Selection

  Kus, E., Miguel, I. J., Akgun, O. & Dang, N., 12 Jul 2024, (Accepted/In press) Cost-Efficient Training for Automated Algorithm Selection. PMLR

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Learning When to Use Automatic Tabulation in Constraint Model Reformulation

  Cena, C., Akgün, Ö., Kiziltan, Z., Miguel, I., Nightingale, P. & Ulrich-Oltean, F., 2023, Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2023. Elkind, E. (ed.). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, p. 1902-1910 9 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 2023-August).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Open access

  Frugal Algorithm Selection

  Kus, E., Akgun, O., Miguel, I. J. & Dang, N., 29 Aug 2024, Frugal Algorithm Selection. Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing, Vol. 307. p. 38:1 15 p. 38

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Open access

  Plotting: a case study in lifted planning with constraints

  Espasa, J., Miguel, I. J., Nightingale, P., Salamon, A. Z. & Villaret, M., 13 Sept 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Constraints. First online, 40 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Towards High-Level Modelling in Automated Planning

  Sureda, C. D., Arxer, J. E., Miguel, I. & Auselle, M. V., 2 Sept 2024, In: ArXiv e-prints.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Automated streamliner portfolios for constraint satisfaction problems

  Spracklen, J. L. P. J., Dang, N., Akgun, O. & Miguel, I. J., 1 Jun 2023, In: Artificial Intelligence. 319, 24 p., 103915.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• CONJURE: Automatic generation of constraint models from problem specifications (extended abstract)

  Akgün, Ö., Frisch, A. M., Gent, I. P., Jefferson, C., Miguel, I. & Nightingale, P., 19 Aug 2023, Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2023). Elkind, E. (ed.). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, p. 6833-6838 6 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 2023-August).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Open access

  Challenges in Modelling and Solving Plotting with PDDL

  Espasa Arxer, J., Miguel, I. J., Nightingale, P., Salamon, A. Z. & Villaret, M., 9 Jul 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

 

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