KEPS 2011 - KEPS. Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling

KEPS. Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling

Despite the progress in automated planning and scheduling systems, these systems still need to be fed by careful problem description and they need to be fine tuned for particular domains or problems. Knowledge engineering for AI planning and scheduling deals with the acquisition, design, validation and maintenance of domain models, and the selection and optimization of appropriate machinery to work on them. These processes impact directly on the success of real planning and scheduling applications. The importance of knowledge engineering techniques is clearly demonstrated by a performance gap between domain-independent planners and planners exploiting domain dependent knowledge.

The KEPS workshop attracts audience interested in bridging the above-described gap between real-life problems and planning and scheduling algorithms. Its topics include domain and problem formulations, languages, knowledge acquisition (e.g. control rules), visualization, validation and analysis of plans/domains, problem (re)formulation etc.

The workshop will consist of presentations of technical papers that will be immediately commented by other researchers, it will include a demo session where existing systems will be presented, and it will be concluded by an open discussion on the next ICKEPS competition.

Call for Papers

We seek original papers ranging from experience reports to the description of new technology in the following areas:

formulation of domains and problem descriptions
methods and tools for the acquisition of domain knowledge
pre- and post-processing techniques for planners and schedulers
acquisition and refinement of control knowledge
formal languages for domain description
re-use of domain knowledge
translators from other app/lication-area-specific languages to solver-ready
domain models (such as PDDL)
formats for specification of heuristics, parameters and control knowledge for
solvers
import of domain knowledge from general ontologies
ontologies for describing the capabi/lities of planners and schedulers
automated reformulation of problems
automated knowledge extraction processes
domain model, problem and plan va/lidation
visua/lization methods for domain models, search spaces and plans
mapping domain properties and planning techniques
plan representation and reuse
knowledge engineering aspects of plan analysis
Submission Procedure

Two types of papers can be submitted. Full technical papers with the length up to 8 pages are standard research papers. Short application papers with the length up to 2 pages describe a particular system or application. The papers will be presented at different sessions; the technical papers will have a standard presentation format with commentary, while the application papers will be presented in a dedicated session as a system demonstration (similar to ICKEPS system demo or ICAPS application showcase). All papers should conform to the AAAI style template. The papers must be submitted in a PDF format via EasyChair system. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: Friday, February 11, 2011
Notification: Friday, March 11, 2011
Final date for camera-ready copy: TBA
Workshop dates: June 12th or 13th, 2011
Organizers

Roman Barták (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Simone Fratini (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
Lee McCluskey (University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom)
Tiago Stegun Vaquero (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Programme committee (to be confirmed)

Roman Barták, Charles University, Czech Republic (co-chair)
Mark Boddy, Adventium Labs, U.S.A.
Adi Botea, NICTA/ANU, Australia
Luis Castillo, University of Granada, Spain
Amedeo Cesta, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Stefan Edelkamp, Universität Dortmund, Germany
Susana Fernández, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Jeremy Frank, NASA Ames, USA
Simone Fratini, ISTC-CNR, Italy (co-chair)
Antonio Garrido, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Arturo González-Ferrer, University of Granada, Spain
Rania Hatzi, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Peter A. Jarvis, NASA, USA
Karen Myers, SRI International, USA
John Levine, University of Strathclyde, UK
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom (co-chair)
José Reinaldo Silva, University of São Paulo, Brazil
David E. Smith, NASA, USA
Tiago Stegun Vaquero, University of São Paulo, Brazil (co-chair)
Dimitris Vrakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Past related events

KEPS 2010
ICKEPS 2009
KEPS 2008
ICKEPS 2007
ICKEPS 2005