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International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 2004
ICAPS 2004
Call for Tutorial Proposals
Call for Workshop Proposals
June 3-7, 2004
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
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http://icaps04.icaps-conference.org
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ICAPS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners in
automated planning and scheduling. In addition to a technical track,
the conference includes tutorials, workshops, a doctoral consortium, a
planning competition and demonstrations of planning systems. The
conference participation from researchers working on all areas related
to planning and scheduling. Conference topics include planning and
scheduling theory, algorithms, and applications to areas such as
manufacturing, space systems, disaster relief, software engineering,
robotics, logistics, education, crisis response, and entertainment.
Call for Workshop Proposals
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The ICAPS Organizing Committee invites proposals for the conference
Workshop
Program. Workshops are intended to provide a forum for people to discuss
issues with a selected focus. To foster interaction, the workshops
will be limited to 25-50 invited participants. The day-long workshops
will be held concurrently on Friday, June 4. Workshop registration
will be free to ICAPS participants.
We solicit proposals in all areas related to AI Planning and
Scheduling. Proposers are specifically encouraged to consider
workshops focused on new and emerging technical ideas, applications of
AI planning and scheduling technologies, and interdisciplinary topics.
Workshop Chairs:
Michael Beetz, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Karen Myers, SRI International (USA)
Call for Tutorial Proposals
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The Organizing Committee invites tutorial proposals. Tutorials will
be held on June 3, 2004, immediately prior to the ICAPS workshops and
technical sessions, and concurrently with the technical sessions of
the 9th International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning (KR'04) with which ICAPS is
co-located. Tutorial registration will be free to ICAPS'04
participants.
We invite proposals for half-day or full day tutorials on automated
planning and scheduling, its applications (for instance, space,
manufacturing, web, robotics) and topics in related areas such as
constraints, control, diagnosis, learning, operations research,
search, software engineering. The topics of the tutorials of the last
ICAPS conference were timed automata applied to scheduling, practical
approaches to handling uncertainty in planning and scheduling,
time-bounded and time-critical reasoning, and hands-on introductory
model-checking.
The goal of those tutorials in mainstream planning and scheduling
should be to provide a comprehensive and in-depth perspective of the
state of the art in planning and scheduling research and
applications. By not being introductory in nature, the tutorials are
intended for researchers and practitioners rather than novices. The
emphasis is particularly appropriate given the fact that introductory
planning and scheduling material was covered at the PLANET
International summer school on AI Planning in June 2003. By contrast,
those tutorials in related areas may include more introductory
material.
ICAPS 2004 Tutorial Chair: Sylvie Thi�baux
For more information, see the conference web site:
icaps04.icaps-conference.org
Important Dates:
Workshop Proposal Submissions: Tuesday, September 16th, 2003
Tutorial Proposal Submissions: Tuesday, September 30th, 2003
Conference Chairs:
Shlomo Zilberstein (shlomo @ cs.umass.edu)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst (USA)
Sven Koenig (skoenig @ cc.gatech.edu)
Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
Jana Koehler, (koe @ zurich.ibm.com)
IBM Zurich (Switzerland)
