HAP 2014 - The 1st International Workshop on Human-Aware Planning

The HAP 2014 workshop provides an international forum for researchers interested in Human-Aware Planning, for instance applied to joint human-agent/robot activities or human-agent/robot interaction addressing the challenges of future teamwork scenarios that are more complex and incorporate agent, robots and humans in a closed loop.
HAP is an evolving branch of AI planning systems due to the progressive integration of AI in our human daily life. HAP is mainly required when the situation involves artificial and natural agents in the same environment, the actions of the artificial agents being planned and those of the natural agents being predicted only. We find such situations in collaborative application areas like Smart Homes inhabited by agents, robots and humans, e.g., when addressing the ageing of the population with socially assistive robotics. Joint human-agent activities can be seen as an extended set of actions that is executed by an ensemble of natural and artificial agents who are coordinating with each other: the artificial and natural agents have to work together in close and relatively continuous interaction. Making artificial agents a constituent part of human activities leads us to more affiliated teamwork scenarios at the one hand, but also introduces several new challenges on the other. These challenges comprise among others examining accurate models of teamwork and flexible techniques for distributed decision making including planning with and/or for humans.
This workshop aims to tackle the challenges of planning associated with the complex nature of humans (e.g. dynamicity, non-determinism, social rules). The main purpose is to explore planning-theories, -methods, and -approaches that support teams of humans, agents and/or robots working together. Application papers that combine findings from artificial planning, cognitive science, social and organizational psychology and human-agent interaction are strongly encouraged.
Topics of Interest
The workshop solicits contributions addressing original research on human-aware planning, joint human-agent-robot activities and human-agent teamwork. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Adjustable/flexible autonomy
Application of human behaviour models
Collaborative planning
Cooperative agent-human systems
Distributed decision making
Human-agent teamwork theories and frameworks
Human-aware navigation
Human-aware motion planning
Human-aware task planning
Human-robot/agent interaction
Joint human-agent-robot activities
Planning for joint-manipulation
Planning for humans
Planning with humans
Important dates
Deadline Date
Paper submission deadline 22th April 2014
Notification of acceptance/rejection 20th May 2014
Camera-ready copied due 23th June 2014
Workshop date 22th - 26th September 2014
Author guidelines
All papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Criteria for selection of papers include the relevance to topics, soundness, overall quality and readability.
All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be included in the proceedings of the INFORMATIK 2014. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work.
The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of the Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) template (website mixes German and English content). Authors are encouraged to use the style files found here:
LaTeX template
Word template
The submitted papers must be no longer than twelve pages in length, including all figures, tables and references. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online conference management system in PDF format before the deadline (see important dates).
Paper submission is electronic. To submit, please prepare a PDF file of your paper, a short abstract in plain text, and a list of two to five keywords. Then follow this link:
Enter the HAP 2014 submission system
The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking 'I have no EasyChair account' button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date.
Organizing Committee
Sebastian Ahrndt, DAI-Labor, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Cyrille Martin, LIG lab, University of Grenoble, France
Benjamin Hirsch, EBTIC, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
Johannes Fähndrich, DAI-Labor, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Program Committee
Sebastian Ahrndt, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Marcello Cirillo, Örebro University, Sweden
Johannes Fähndrich, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Benjamin Hirsch, EBTIC, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
Michael Kaisers, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands
Alexandra Kirsch, University of Tübingen
Marco Lützenberger, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Cyrille Martin, University of Grenoble, France
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany