ICAPS 2010: Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits

[Neil Yorke-Smith]

[with apologies for multiple copies]

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ICAPS 2010
Twentieth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
Toronto, Canada - 12-16 May 2010

SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITS

Call for Participation

http://icaps10.icaps-conference.org/
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ICAPS 2010 DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITS

The Demonstrations and Exhibits programme at ICAPS 2010 provides an
opportunity for planning and scheduling researchers and practitioners
to demonstrate their state-of-the-art implementations in action. This
event allows the community to experience the latest contributions
while broadening the reach of novel methods in a relaxed social
setting. The format of the exhibition intends to give applications a
higher profile and to allow demonstrations to have an impact to more
conference attendees.

Researchers from all sub-areas of AI planning and scheduling are
encouraged to submit proposals to demonstrate their systems.
Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their novelty and
scientific or industrial contributions, relevance to the conference
theme, user-friendliness, and presentation. We encourage submissions
demonstrating new and innovative techniques for planning and
scheduling, as well as submissions from mature, commercial and/or
deployed systems, and systems in development for deployment.

Recognition of the Demonstrations and Exhibits is anticipated by an
award for Best System Demonstration.


SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Potential exhibitors are invited to submit the following items by
email to the Demonstrations and Exhibits co-chairs, by February 15th,
2010:

(1) A summary of the proposed demonstration of up to 250 words,
submitted as plain text. Please include the title, and demonstrators
names and affiliation(s).

(2) A extended abstract of 2-4 pages in AAAI format, describing the
technical content of the demonstration, and including credits and
references.

(3) A storyboard describing the proposed demonstration. This may be
submitted as a PDF document of not more than six pages in AAAI format,
or as a link to a video (in MPEG, Quicktime or Flash format: send a
link to the URL). The storyboard will be the primary evaluation of
the suitability and merit of the proposed demonstration.

(4) A description of any non-standard hardware or logistic arrangements.

The extended abstracts of accepted demonstrations will be available to
conference participants and will be archived on the conference web
site.

In addition to direct submission of demonstrations and exhibits,
submissions to the ICAPS regular and short technical paper tracks will
have the option to indicate that the submission can be considered for
suitability for the conference Demonstrations and Exhibits. This
consideration will be an independent outcome to the technical paper
reviewing. Works accepted by this route need not prepare an extended
abstract.


IMPORTANT DATES

15 February 2010 - Proposals of demonstrations and exhibits

03 March 2010 - Notification of acceptance

24 March 2010 - Camera ready extended abstracts

12-16 May 2010 - ICAPS 2010 conference


CONTACT

ICAPS 2010 Demonstrations and Exhibits co-chairs:

Ivan Serina, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (ivan.serina _AT_ unibz.it)

Neil Yorke-Smith, American University of Beirut, Lebanon and SRI
International, USA (nysmith _AT_ ai.sri.com)

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