icaps 2011 - COPLAS. Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems

COPLAS. Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems

The areas of AI planning and scheduling have seen important advances thanks to the application of constraint satisfaction models and techniques. Solutions to many real-world problems need to integrate plan synthesis capabilities with resource allocation, which can be efficiently managed by using constraint satisfaction techniques.

The workshop will aim at providing a forum for researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence to discuss novel issues on planning, scheduling, constraint programming/constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) and many other common areas that exist among them. On the whole, the workshop will mainly focus on managing complex problems where planning, scheduling and constraint satisfaction must be combined and/or interrelated, which entails an enormous potential for practical applications and future research.

This workshop continues the trail of the successful COPLAS since 2006. During two years, the workshop was a joint workshop for both ICAPS and CP, which provided a broader audience and gave the participants of both events the opportunity to exchange ideas and approaches that lead to a valuable and fruitful discussion, and inspired forthcoming research.

COPLAS is ranked as CORE B in ERA Conference Ranking.

Call for Papers

We invite submissions on any topic relevant to the workshop, particularly those that combine techniques from both perspectives, planning & scheduling, and constraint programming. This includes but is not limited to:

constraint modelling for planning & scheduling
reformulations of constraint models for P&S
global constraints motivated by P&S
temporal CSPs
integration of temporal and resource reasoning via CSPs
search techniques and heuristics
distributed/parallel solving techniques
constraint management in P&S systems
real-life applications
Papers must be prepared according to the AAAI style template ( http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php) and should be no more than eight pages, including figures and bibliography. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coplas1.... Every submitted paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop notes.

A journal special issue is under consideration for best papers of COPLAS'11.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: February 11, 2011
Notification: March 11, 2011
Final date for camera-ready copy: March 25th, 2011
Workshop dates: June 12th and 13th, 2011
Workshop Format

The workshop will be organized in technical sessions; each session will be concluded by a commentary of the session chair. The goal of the commentary is not only to summarize the content of talks but to highlight important novel points and raise questions to foster further discussion. We also plan to have individual commentary of each paper done by other authors in the session. Rather than being a mini-conference, the workshop will focus on opening new research areas and topics, discussing possible solutions, exchanging ideas and approaches, and in general inspiring forthcoming research.

Organizers

Miguel A. Salido (contact person)
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
Roman Barták
Charles University (Czech Republic)
Nicola Policella
European Space Agency (Germany)
Programme Committee

Federico Barber, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Roman Bartak, Charles University, The Czech Republic
Amedeo Cesta, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Minh Binh Do, Parc, USA
Enrico Giunchiglia, Universita di Genova, Italy
Peter Jarvis, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Michela Milano, Università di Bologna, Italy
Alexander Nareyek, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Eva Onaindía, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Nicola Policella, European Space Agency, Germany
Hana Rudová, Masaryk University, The Czech Republic
Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italy
Migual A. Salido, Universidad Politecnica Valencia, Spain
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University, USA
Gérard Verfaillie, ONERA, Centre de Toulouse, France
Vincent Vidal, CRIL-IUT, France
Petr Vilim, ILOG, France
Toby Walsh, UNSW, Sydney and NICTA, Australia
Neil Yorke-Smith, American University of Beirut/SRI International, USA
List of previous editions of COPLAS

COPLAS'10 ICAPS 2010 Workshop on Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems. Toronto, Canada, 2010 COPLAS'09 ICAPS 2009 Workshop on Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2009 COPLAS'08 CP/ICAPS Joint Workshop on Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems, Sydney, Australia, 2008 COPLAS'07 CP/ICAPS Joint Workshop on Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems. Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 2007 COPLAS'06 ICAPS Workshop on Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems, Cumbria, UK, 2006