Workshops
We are pleased to present the ICAPS-13 Workshop Program. This year edition the program includes 10 workshops covering a wide and rich range of topics in automated Planning and Scheduling.
All workshops were held Monday and Tuesday June 10–11, 2013 at the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. See the program overview for the schedule.
Workshops are one day unless noted otherwise in the individual description. All workshop participants should preregister, and indicate which workshop(s) they will be attending. This would help the ICAPS-13 organization. Workshop proceedings will be available onsite during the conference.
Submission deadlines are scheduled around the end of March-early April. In the following, you may find the detailed ICAPS-13 Workshops list as well as the links to each WS web site.
We encourage numerous submissions and invite you to join us in
Rome to take advantage of this rich program of workshops!
The following workshops have been accepted for ICAPS 2013:
- COPLAS – Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problem
- DMAP – Distributed and Multi-Agent Planning
- EVOPS – Evolutionary Techniques in Planning and Scheduling
- HSDIP – Heuristics and Search for Domain-independent Planning
- KEPS – Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling
- PAL – Planning and Learning
- PlanRob – Planning and Robotics
- Planning in Continuous Domains
- Planning in Games
- SPARK – Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop
Venue
Workshops will take place in the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering (DIAG), University of Rome SAPIENZA, Viale Ariosto 25, 00185, Rome, Italy (details) on June 10th and 11th.
Workshop Program Chairs
* Gabriella Cortellessa (CNR – Italian National Research Council, ISTC, Italy)
gabriella.cortellessa@istc.cnr.it
* Patrik Haslum (The Australian National University & NICTA)
patrik.haslum@anu.edu.au
Call for Workshop Proposals (Deadline expired) The call is available here.
Workshop Descriptions
COPLAS – Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems
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.
Workshop Organizers: Miguel A. Salido, Roman Barták, Francesca Rossi
Submission deadline (extended): April 5th, 2013
Workshop Date: June 11th, 2013
DMAP – Distributed and Multi-Agent Planning
Multi-agent planning is a broad field with many applications, but its subfields remain mostly dispersed and uncoordinated. The main goal of the workshop is to bridge the gap between the planning and multi-agent systems communities, while focusing on formalizing models, algorithmic techniques and solution concepts.
Workshop Organizers: Raz Nissim, Daniel Laszlo Kovacs and Ronen Brafman
Submission deadline (extended): April 5th, 2013
Workshop Date: June 11th, 2013
EVOPS – Evolutionary Techniques in Planning and Scheduling
The EVOPS (EVOlutionary techniques for Planning and Scheduling) workshop will aim at providing an opportunity of interaction between researchers that share interests both on Planning and Scheduling and Evolutionary Computation Techniques. Since Planning and Scheduling problems are generally complex, constrained and multiobjective problems, the application of evolutionary algorithms, meta-heuristics and other soft computing techniques can be of help. The submission of works both on the use and on the application of evo techniques in P&S research is encouraged.
Workshop Organizers: Marco Baioletti, Valentina Poggioni, Marc Schoenauer, Vincent Vidal
Submission deadline (extended): April 4th, 2013
Workshop Date: June 11th, 2013
HSDIP – Heuristics and Search for Domain-independent Planning
Heuristics and search algorithms are the two key components of heuristic search, one of the main approaches to many variations of domain-independent planning, including classical planning, temporal planning, planning under uncertainty and adversarial planning. This workshop seeks to understand the underlying principles of current heuristics and search methods, their limitations, ways for overcoming those limitations, as well as the synergy between heuristics and search.
Workshop Organizers: Malte Helmert, Michael Katz, Gabriele Röger, Jordan Thayer
Submission deadline: April 4th, 2013
Workshop Date: June 10th, 2013
KEPS – Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling
The goal of the workshop is to promote research in the areas lying between planning & scheduling technology on the one side, and practical applications and problems on the other. Despite recent advances in the area, the performance of planning & scheduling systems is still dependent to a large extent on how problems and domains are formulated, resulting in the need for careful system fine-tuning. Knowledge engineering for planning & scheduling deals with this area, covering the acquisition, formalization, design, validation and maintenance of domain models, and the selection and optimization of appropriate machinery to work on them.
Workshop Organizers: Roman Barták, Simone Fratini, Lee McCluskey, Tiago Vaquero
Submission deadline (extended): April 5th, 2013
Workshop Date: June 10th, 2013
PAL – Planning and Learning
In an area such as planning, where domain independence is a central theme, learning remains an exciting approach to further driving the progress. With the Workshop on Planning and Learning, our goal is to create an open, engaging forum to discuss recent progress, new ideas and a future roadmap.
Workshop Organizers: Sergio Jiménez Celorrio, Adi Botea, Erez Karpas
Paper Submission (extended): April 4th, 2013
Workshop Date: June 11th, 2013
PlanRob – Planning and Robotics
The PlanRob workshop aims at constituting a stable, long-term establishment of a forum on relevant topics concerned with the interactions between Robotics and P&S communities. The workshop would present a stimulating environment where researchers could discuss about the opportunities and challenges for P&S when applied in Robotics.
Workshop Organizers: Alberto Finzi, Felix Ingrand, Andrea Orlandini
Paper submission (extended): April 4th, 2013
Workshop Date: June 10th, 2013
Planning in Continuous Domains
Real domains are often described in terms of both logical change and physical dynamics, and planning with such hybrid domains is an important challenge. This workshop explores new approaches to planning for hybrid systems and integrating planning and control. Papers are encouraged from planning and related disciplines including model-based reasoning, control and run-time verification.
Workshop Organizers: Maria Fox, Derek Long, Daniele Magazzeni, Brian Williams, Masahiro Ono
Submission deadline (extended): April 5th, 2013
Workshop Date: June 11th, 2013
Planning in Games
The workshop aims at gathering researchers and practitioners interested in the use of planning in games to discuss current work and future directions: from classic games to video games, from academia to the industry, from researchers to developers and designers to gamers, from path planning to strategic planning, and more.
Workshop Organizers: Michael Buro, Éric Jacopin, Stavros Vassos
Submission deadline (extended): April 5th, 2013
Workshop Date: June 10th, 2013
SPARK – Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop
Real-world application domains present a set of interesting modeling, technological and institutional challenges that are becoming increasingly affordable for the AI Planning and Scheduling community. The International Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop (SPARK) aims to provide a stable forum both to present relevant topics connected to application-focused research, and to discuss and foster the advancement in real-world deployment of the AI-based P&S techniques.
Workshop Organizers: Luis Castillo Vidal, Steve Chien, Riccardo Rasconi
Submission deadline (extended): April 4th, 2013
Workshop Date: June 11th, 2013
