Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems (COPLAS)

The workshop aims at providing a forum to discuss novel issues on planning, scheduling, and constraint satisfaction problems. Solutions to many real-world problems need to integrate plan synthesis capabilities with time and resource allocation, which can be efficiently managed by constraint satisfaction and OR techniques. Formulations of P&S problems as CSPs, resource and temporal global constraints, and inference techniques are of particular interest of COPLAS.

Online Proceedings (coplas13-proceedings)

The COPLAS workshop is scheduled on the 11th of June in the A5 room at the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering (DIAG), University of Rome “SAPIENZA”.

Invited Talk

Michela Milano, Alessio Bonfietti, Michele Lombardi
Constraint-based approaches for cyclic scheduling

List of Accepted Papers

• Anastasios Alexiadis and Ioannis Refanidis
  Post-Optimizing Individual Activity Plans through Local Search
• Patrik Haslum
  Propagation of PDDL3 Plan Constraints
• James Boerkoel and Ed Durfee
  Decoupling the Multiagent Disjunctive Temporal Problem
• Laura Climent, Richard Wallace, Miguel A. Salido and Federico Barber
  A Constraint Programming Approach to Solve Scheduling Problems under Uncertainty

Call for papers

Topics and Objectives

The areas of AI planning and scheduling have seen important advances thanks to the application of constraint satisfaction models and techniques. Especially solutions to many real-world problems need to integrate plan synthesis capabilities with resource allocation, which can be efficiently managed by using constraint satisfaction techniques. The workshop will aim at providing a forum for researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence to discuss novel issues on planning, scheduling, constraint programming/constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) and many other common areas that exist among them. On the whole, the workshop will mainly focus on managing complex problems where planning, scheduling and constraint satisfaction must be combined and/or interrelated, which entails an enormous potential for practical applications and future research. COPLAS is ranked as CORE B in ERA Conference Ranking and it is covered in selected Elsevier database products.

We invite submissions on any topic relevant to the workshop, particularly those that combine techniques from both perspectives, planning & scheduling, and constraint programming. This includes but is not limited to:

1. Planning (constraint management, temporal planning, multi-criteria planning, planning with resources, reformulations to CSP etc.),
2. Scheduling (global constraints, innovative models, Robust solutions, energy efficient scheduling, etc.),
3. Integration of planning and scheduling (from a CSP perspective),
4. Temporal CSPs.
5. Hybrid CP and OR techniques for P&S.
6. Real life applications

Submissions

Papers must be prepared according to the instructions for ICAPS-13 (in AAAI format) available at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php and must be no more than ten (10) pages long, including figures and bibliography. Papers must be in the PDF format and should be submitted by March 29, 2013 via the EasyChair conference system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coplas2013). Every submitted paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop notes. A journal special issue is under consideration for the best papers of COPLAS’13.

Deadlines

Submission deadline (extended): April 5th, 2013
Notification: April 19, 2013
Final version: TBA
Workshop: June 11, 2013

Workshop Program Chairs

• Miguel A. Salido, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
  msalido@dsic.upv.es
• Roman Barták, Charles University, Czech Republic
  bartak@ktiml.mff.cuni.cz
• Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italy
  frossi@math.unipd.it

Program committee 

• Federico Barber, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Roman Bartak, Charles University, The Czech Republic
• Amedeo Cesta, ISTC-CNR, Italy
• Minh Binh Do, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
• Enrico Giunchiglia, Universita di Genova, Italy
• Peter Jarvis, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
• Michela Milano, Universitˆ di Bologna, Italy
• Eva Onaindia, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Nicola Policella, European Space Agency, Germany
• Hana Rudova, Masaryk University, The Czech Republic
• Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italy
• Migual A. Salido, Universidad Politecnica Valencia, Spain
• Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University, USA
• Ramiro Varela, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
• Gerard Verfaillie, ONERA, Centre de Toulouse, France
• Vincent Vidal, CRIL-IUT, France
• Petr Vilim, ILOG, France
• Toby Walsh, UNSW, Sydney and NICTA, Australia
• Neil Yorke-Smith, American University of Beirut/SRI International, USA

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