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20th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
ICAPS-2010, http://www.icaps10.upf.edu
May 12-16, 2010, Toronto, Canada
QUICK FACTS
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Electronic abstracts: December 11, 2009
Electronic PDF papers: December 19, 2009
Submission instructions:
http://icaps10.upf.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17&Itemid=55
ICAPS'10 invites FULL PAPERS (8 pages), SHORT PAPERS (4 pages),
CHALLENGE PAPERS (4 pages), and POSITION STATEMENTS (4 pages).
PDF paper deadline has been extended by 1 day to allow re-submissions
from AAMAS.
All accepted papers, of all four types, will be published in the main
conference proceedings and will be presented orally at the conference.
We particularly draw attention to the call for short papers, which
similarly to the one for ICAPS'09 provides the opportunity to submit
focused technical contributions such as implementation techniques,
benchmark problems, experiments, applications that are not yet
rigorously analyzed or solved, etc.
Call for Papers
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The Organizing Committee of the 20th International Conference on
Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS'10) invites paper submissions
on topics related to automated planning and scheduling. The purpose
of the conference is to promote research in automated planning and
scheduling through analysis and dissemination of the foundational
theory, the technologies, and their application to significant
problems. The focus of the conference program is in:
* Analytic and empirical studies of planning and scheduling problems
and algorithms for solving them;
* Studies of the application of automated planning and scheduling
technologies
to real problems and descriptions of deployed applications;
* Techniques that extend the complexity and the types of problems that
can be
solved with current techniques, and
* Analytic and implemented tools for supporting automated planning
and scheduling.
We especially welcome application papers providing novel insights about
either
planning and scheduling, or their application in the real world. It is
anticipated
that a best application paper award will be presented at the conference.
For this edition of ICAPS, four types of papers can be submitted:
- full papers
- short papers
- challenge papers, and
- position statements.
The authors will indicate the type of paper at submission time. Full
papers can be up to 8 pages long, while all other types of papers can
be up to 4 pages long. All accepted papers will be published in the
main conference proceedings, and will be presented orally at the
conference (full papers will be allocated more time). Challenge and
position papers will be likely presented in special sessions devoted
to this purpose.
Extended versions of the best ICAPS-10 papers will be invited to be
submitted to the Artificial Intelligence Journal, which will
fast-track their publication process.
Author/reviewer guidelines
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*Full papers* will be reviewed based on the standard criteria of
clarity, relevance, significance, originality, and soundness. These
papers are expected to convey substantial technical contributions to
the field, placed in the context of existing work.
*Short papers* will be reviewed with the same criteria as full papers,
except that given the restrictions on space, they can be more
focused. Examples of work suitable for short papers are novel
interesting ideas that are not yet fully developed or whose scope is
not large enough for a full paper; important implementation
techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; experiments;
applications that are not yet rigorously analyzed or solved, etc.
*Challenge papers* are expected to present novel, concrete, and
precise practical or theoretical challenges and the reasons for which
it is beneficial for ICAPS researchers to tackle them explicitly.
*Position papers* can address the state of automated planning and
scheduling field or parts thereof, drawing concrete lessons on past
experiences and research, and providing useful insights for the
future.
Authors are discouraged from submitting the same work both as full and
short paper. Papers submitted to ICAPS'10 may not be submitted to
other conferences or journals during the ICAPS'10 review period nor
may they be already under review or published in other conferences or
journals. Over-length papers will be rejected without review.
Important Dates
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The timetable for paper submissions and reviewing is as follows:
Electronic abstracts: December 11, 2009
Electronic PDF papers: December 19, 2009
Notification of acceptance: February 12, 2010
Final papers due: March 5, 2010
Topics
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* applications and case studies of planning and scheduling techniques
* complexity analysis for planning and scheduling
* classical planning
* conformant/contingent planning
* constraint reasoning and OR for planning and scheduling
* distributed and multi-agent planning and scheduling
* hierarchical task network planning and knowledge-based planning
* knowledge acquisition and engineering for planning and scheduling
* machine learning for planning and scheduling
* plan and schedule execution, monitoring and repair
* plan recognition
* planning and scheduling under uncertainty
* planning with resources and time constraints
* real-time planning and scheduling
* robot planning
* search for planning and scheduling
Submission Instructions
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Submissions must be in AAAI format. Refer to the AAAI web site,
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php, for detailed
formatting instructions. Final papers will be in the same format. The
proceedings will be published by AAAI Press.
Paper submission will take place through the ICAPS'10 EasyChair web
site at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaps2010. The site
will open for submissions on December 1, 2009. Precise instructions on
the submission procedure are available via the ICAPS'10
conference web site at
http://icaps10.upf.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17&Itemid=55
The Program Chairs
* Ronen Brafman Ben Gurion University, Israel
* Hector Geffner, ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
The Conference Chairs
* Joerg Hoffmann, INRIA, France
* Henry Kautz, University of Rochester, USA
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