ICAPS 2013 - 23rd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling

The 23rd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS’13, will take place in Rome, Italy, June 10-14, 2013. ICAPS’13 is part of the ICAPS conference series (http://icaps-conference.org), the premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of intelligent planning and scheduling technology.
The organizing committee of ICAPS’13 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 on:
Analytic and empirical studies of planning and scheduling problems as well as algorithms for solving them;
Studies applying 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;
Analytic and implemented tools for supporting automated planning and scheduling.
We particularly welcome papers that bring into planning useful computational technologies from other areas of AI/CS.
Submissions
Following the most recent editions of ICAPS, the authors will be allowed to submit two types of papers: full technical papers and short papers. The authors will indicate the type of paper at submission time. Full papers can be up to 8 pages long, while short papers can be up to 4 pages long.
Submissions must be in the AAAI format. For more information, see the submission instructions here. The proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. 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).
Special Track on Novel Applications of Automated Planning and Scheduling
This year ICAPS is pleased to introduce a special track focused on applications of planning and scheduling. The corresponding Call for Papers will be issued shortly.
Author and Reviewer Guidelines
All papers will be reviewed based on the standard criteria for clarity, relevance, significance, originality, and soundness.
Full technical papers are expected to report on new research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field and is placed in the context of existing work.
Short papers can report on new research or other issues of interest to the ICAPS community. Examples of work suitable for short papers include: novel 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; short experimental studies; interesting applications that are not yet completely solved or analyzed; position or
challenge papers; etc.
Authors making multiple submissions must ensure that each submission has significant unique content. Papers submitted to ICAPS’13 may not be submitted to other conferences or journals during the ICAPS’13 review period nor may they be already under review or published in other conferences or journals. Overlength papers will be rejected without review.
Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
adversarial planning
applications and case studies of planning and scheduling techniques
classical planning
complexity analysis for planning and scheduling
conformant/contingent planning
constraint reasoning/OR techniques for planning and scheduling
continuous planning
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
multi-agent planning
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
Important Dates
The timetable for paper submissions and reviewing is as follows:
Electronic abstracts: November 9th, 2012
Electronic PDF papers: November 16th, 2012
Notification of acceptance: January 11th, 2013
The reference timezone for all deadlines is UTC-13. This means that if you are in time anywhere on the world, then you are in time!
Organizing Committee
Conference chairs:
Angelo Oddi (CNR, Italian National Research Council, ISTC, Italy)
Simone Fratini (ESA, European Space Agency, Germany)
Program chairs:
Daniel Borrajo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State University, USA)