CFP: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 2004
Richard Goodwin
Please find below registration information for ICAPS 2004, the International
Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. Note that the registration
information also contains a second call for student scholarship
applications.
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Call for Conference Participation
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 2004
ICAPS 2004
June 3-7, 2004
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
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http://icaps04.icaps-conference.org
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Early Registration Deadline: April 16, 2004
student scholarships are available (see below)
The ICAPS organizing committee cordially invites you to participate in ICAPS
2004 - the premier forum for researchers and practitioners in automated
planning and scheduling. Conference topics include planning and scheduling
theory, algorithms and applications to areas such as MANUFACTURING, SUPPLY
CHAIN MANAGEMENT, SPACE SYSTEMS, DISASTER RELIEF, ROBOTICS, and GAMES. This
year, ICAPS has successfully reached out to research communities that were
underrepresented at ICAPS in the past. The main conference therefore
contains,
in addition to talks on classical SYMBOLIC PLANNING, a number of talks on
SEARCH, PROBABILISTIC PLANNING, and especially SCHEDULING. The main
conference
will feature three invited talks: "Advanced Research with Autonomous
Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles" by Patrick Doherty (Linkoping University, Sweden),
"Artificial Intelligence Meets Operations Research: A Constraint
Programmer's
Point of View" by Michela Milano (Universita di Bologna, Italy), and
"Planning
for an Uncertain Future" by Reid Simmons (Carnegie Mellon University, USA).
In
addition to a technical track, ICAPS includes tutorials, workshops, a
doctoral
consortium, a planning competition (this year for the first time with a
probabilistic planning track) and demonstrations of planning systems. ICAPS
is co-located with the International Conference on Principles of Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning (KR), the International Workshop on Description
Logics (DL), and the International Workshop on Nonmonotic Reasoning (NMRW).
ICAPS will be held in Whistler, a year-round pedestrian resort at the base
of
Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains that is less than a two-hour drive away
from
Vancouver. In addition to dining, shopping and nightlife, it offers an
endless
variety of outdoor activities including mountaintop sightseeing, golf,
mountain biking, hiking, in-line skating, horseback riding, sightseeing,
canoeing, kayaking, fishing, and even glacier skiing.
Schedule:
June 3 ICAPS tutorials
- Planning and Learning
- Constraint Satisfaction for Planning and Scheduling
- Planning on the Web
- Robot Motion Planning
- Planning using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
June 4 ICAPS workshops (by invitation only)
- Integrating Planning Into Scheduling
- Connecting Planning Theory with Practice
- Planning and Scheduling for Web and Grid Services
June 5 ICAPS main conference (joint day with KR)
including the ICAPS/KR festival in the evening
with system demonstrations and student posters
June 6 ICAPS main conference
June 7 ICAPS main conference (conference ends at 5:10 PM)
The early registration deadline is April 16, 2004. Registration is via the
AAAI website:
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/ICAPS/icapsregform.html
ICAPS has reserved a block of rooms at the Westin Resort at extremely
reduced
conference rates. Participants need to make their own reservations by May 2,
2004. Student accommodations are available. Registration information can be
found on the ICAPS website.
We invite graduate students to apply for student scholarships (second round)
by April 7, 2004. The second round is open only to students who have not
already applied for an ICAPS 2004 scholarship. Subject to the availability
of
funds, we expect to award each approved applicant $250 to help cover part of
the registration fee. The ICAPS website contains additional information:
http://icaps04.icaps-conference.org
We gratefully acknowledge the following sponsors of the conference:
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- American Association for Artificial Intelligence
- Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center
- Defense R&D Canada
- Honeywell
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- National ICT Australia
- National Science Foundation
- Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science