icaps 2011 - GAPRec. Goal, Activity and Plan Recognition

GAPRec. Goal, Activity and Plan Recognition

Despite being based on the same principles, there is little collaboration between the Planning and Recognition communities. The workshop aims to foster creativity between these two fields, and to introduce the current state-of-the-art in Recognition research to the wider ICAPS audience.

Call for papers

GAPRec 2011

Workshop on Goal, Activity and Plan Recognition at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) 2011

Location

GAPRec will be held on the 12th or 13th June 2011 at ICAPS in Freiburg, Germany.

Workshop Description

Recognising purpose in the behaviour of agents is becoming an ever-more important field of research. In multi-agent systems (where other agents might be human or machine), successful interaction with the environment depends on understanding and anticipating the behaviours of others. The fields of plan, activity and goal recognition address the problem of taking a sequence of observations from this environment and identifying the most probable goal or plan of the agent being monitored.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together the cohort of recognition researchers traditionally present at ICAPS, and to introduce those who have an interest in plan recognition to the current state-of-the-art. However, while recognition is, in some sense, the opposite of planning, both share a common base made of actions, facts, states and goals. Therefore, we are keen to fully integrate all conference attendees in the workshop by focusing on common and interleaved topics which will be of interest and relevance to both groups.

The workshop welcomes all work related to recognition, but with a focus on the following themes.

Improving Plan Recognition with Planning and vice versa
Co-operative Plan Recognition in limited-communication scenarios
Shared representations for actions and behaviours in Planning and Recognition
Performing recognition on irrational, adversarial and incompetent agents
Learning plan libraries
Translation of low-level sensor data into high level actions
Outwith these themes the following topics are of relevance to the workshop, but are by no means an exhaustive list.

Plan, goal and activity recognition
Recognition in noisy environments
Adversarial recognition
Recognition for use in a co-operative context
Multi-agent recognition
Predicting plan failure in advance using recognition
As this is a workshop, unfinished and in-progress work is also welcomed.

Structure

The workshop will comprise of two segments split over both a morning and afternoon if there is sufficient interest to merit this. The first session will take the standard form of a series of presentations on current and upcoming work. There will also be an open invitation Doctoral Consortium attendees to present any relevant work.

The afternoon session will be made up of at least 2 panel sessions, which will discuss and debate specific topics and problems related to Recognition, to be announced at a later date. The topics chosen will endeavour to be of interest to both a Recognition and Planning audience.

Important Dates

Call for papers announced December 17th 2010
Submission deadline February 11th 2011
Notification of acceptance March 11th 2011
Workshop in Freiburg June 12th or 13th 1011
Submission Procedure

All submissions must be between 2 and 8 pages in length including references and formatted in the standard AAAI style. Submissions will be accepted through the relevant Easychair website at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gaprec1.... Submissions must be received by February 11, 2011 (23:59, UTC-12).

Organising Committee

Dr. Christopher Geib
School of Informatics,
University of Edinburgh, UK
Email: cgeib-AT-inf.ed.ac.uk
Prof. Derek Long
Dept Computer and Information Sciences,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Email: derek.long-AT-cis.strath.ac.uk
David Pattison
Dept Computer and Information Sciences,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Email: david.pattison-AT-cis.strath.ac.uk
Program Committee

Bikramjit Banerjee, University of Southern Mississippi
Héctor Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Nate Blaylock, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Gita Sukthankar, University of Central Florida
John Maraist, SIFT
Froduald Kabanza, Université de Sherbrooke