Call for Papers
Artificial Intelligence Journal
Special Issue on
Planning with Uncertainty and Incomplete Information
Guest Editors: Craig Boutilier, Tom Dean, and Sven Koenig
Please visit
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Sven.Koenig/aij.html
for up-to-date information.
Call for Papers:
Planning in the real world often has to deal with uncertainty and
incomplete information, yet one must find solutions in a timely manner
despite a large number of potential contingencies. In crisis
situations such as marine oil spills, for example, planners face
uncertainty about how the oil drifts, how the weather conditions
change, how long it takes vessels to reach the spill, and so on, yet
they have to determine how to contain the oil before it reaches the
shores. Similarly, mobile robots have to deal with various kinds of
incomplete information and the uncertainty can be fairly substantial,
yet they have to complete delivery tasks in a timely manner. Their
uncertainty includes actuator uncertainty, sensor uncertainty, limited
sensor ranges, uncertainty in the interpretation of the sensor data,
map uncertainty, uncertainty about the initial pose of the robot, and
uncertainty about the dynamic state of the environment (such as which
doors are currently open). Similar statements also hold for other
real-world planning problems, such as planning medical treatments,
planning for autonomous spacecraft, and so on.
We invite submissions on all kinds of domain-independent and
principled planning methods for planning with uncertainty and
incomplete information as well as theoretical and thorough
experimental insights that help one to select suitable planning
methods.
Topics of Interest:
Issues for planning with uncertainty and incomplete information
include (but are not limited to)
- how to represent uncertain and missing knowledge,
- which planning objectives and planning paradigms to use,
- how to combine planning and plan execution,
- when and how to refine the current knowledge during plan execution, and
- how to scale up planning to large state and action spaces.
Submission Information:
The submission deadline is April 1, 2001 to ensure a publication
date of Summer 2002. Please submit your manuscript in postscript or
pdf format to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If electronic submission is not
possible, send four copies of the manuscript to:
Sven Koenig
Georgia Institute of Technology
College of Computing
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280, USA
Phone: (404) 894-5095
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Submission guidelines are available on-line at
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/artint.
For additional information, contact Sven Koenig.
Important:
Please let us know if you plan on submitting a manuscript to the
special issue. This will allow us to keep you informed of updates.
Editors of the Special Issue:
Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom Dean, Brown University, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sven Koenig, Georgia Institute of Technology, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
