Saborio Morales, Juan Carlos

Biography

My work focuses on planning and decision-making under uncertainty, particularly with limited information and partial observability, and how to transfer the resulting action prediction and action selection methods to independent and cooperative agents. I am also interested in how to integrate these methods onboard systems that perceive, learn, plan and act in real-time. Potential applications include decision-support architectures and cooperative mobile robots, in domains such as agriculture and industry.

Research interests

• Planning under uncertainty
• Decision-making with partial information
• Efficient approximation algorithms for POMDPs
• Integrated and hybrid AI systems
• Cooperative and human-aware AI

Recent publications

Saborío, J. C., Vinci, M., Lima, O., Stock, S., Niecksch, L., Günther, M., Sung, A., Hertzberg, J., and Atzmüller, M. (2025). Uncertainty-Resilient Active Intention Recognition for Robotic Assistants. In Proc. 12th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR). Padova, Italy, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ECMR65884.2025.11163230.

Umbrico, A., Stock, S., Atzmueller, M., Cesta, A., Foderaro, E., Hertzberg, J., Lima, O., Saborio, J., Vinci, M., Pedrocchi, N. and Orlandini, A. (2025). Towards Reconfigurability of Plan-based Controllers through Metacognition. In Proc. Intl. Conf. On Social Robotics + AI. September 10-12, Naples, Italy, Springer 2025.

Walunj, S., Pahlevannejad, P., Sintek, M., Saborio, J. C., Garg, P., Tavakoli, H., Plociennik, C., Grossmann, N., Bernardi, A., Ruskowski, M. and Hertzberg, J. (2024). Context-Aware  Robotic Assistance for Workers Using Intention Recognition and Semantic Digital Twin. In Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (pp. 92-104). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

Saborio, J. C., and Hertzberg, J. (2023). Towards Intention Recognition for Robotic Assistants Through Online POMDP Planning. In PAIR: Plan, Activity and Intent Recognition Workshop, 33rd Intl. Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2023. E-print: arXiv:2411.17326.

Kisliuk, B., Krause, J. C., Meemken, H., Saborío Morales, J. C., Müller,  H., & Hertzberg, J. (2023). AI in current and future agriculture:  an introductory overview. KI-Künstliche Intelligenz, 37(2), 117-132.

Reuter, T., Saborío Morales, J. C., Tieben, C., Nahrstedt, K., Kraatz, F., Meemken,  H., Hünker, G., Lingemann, K., Broll, G., Jarmer, T. and Hertzberg, J. (2023). Evaluation of a decision support system for the recommendation of pasture harvest date and form. In 43. GIL-Jahrestagung, Resiliente Agri-Food-Systeme (pp. 489-494). Gesellschaft für Informatik eV.

Saborío Morales, J. C. (2019). Relevance-based Online Planning in Complex POMDPs (Doctoral dissertation, Universität Osnabrück).

Saborío, J.C. & Hertzberg, J. (2019). Efficient planning under uncertainty with incremental refinement. In Proc. of the 35th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Tel Aviv, Israel, July 22-25, 2019, UAI’19, page 112.

Saborío, J.C. & Hertzberg, J. (2019). Planning Under Uncertainty Through Goal-Driven Action Selection. In Jaap van den Herik and Ana Paula Rocha, editors, Agents and Artificial Intelligence, pages 182–201, Cham, 2019. Springer International Publishing.

Saborío, J. C., & Hertzberg, J. (2018). Towards Domain-independent Biases for Action Selection in Robotic Task-planning under Uncertainty. In Proc. Intl. Conf. on Agents and Artificial Intelligence 2018 (pp. 85-93).

Saborío, J. C., & Hertzberg, J. (2017). Practical assumptions for planning under uncertainty. In Proc. Intl. Conf. on Agents and Artificial Intelligence 2017, vol. 2, pp. 497-502.