1st Call for Papers - 8th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2020)
Andrea Orlandini
** CALL FOR PAPERS **
8th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics
(PlanRob‚ 2020)
http://icaps20.icaps-conference.org/
ICAPS 2020 Workshop
Nancy, France
June 14 or June 15, 2020
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Topics and Objectives
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AI Planning & Scheduling (P&S) methods are crucial to enable intelligent
robots to perform autonomous, flexible, and interactive behaviors, but a
deep integration into robotic architectures is needed for their effective
deployment. This requires a close collaboration between researchers from
both the AI and the Robotics communities. In this direction, this workshop
aims at constituting a stable, long-term forum where researchers from both
the P&S and the Robotics communities can openly discuss about relevant issues,
research and development progress, future directions and open challenges
related to P&S when applied to Robotics.
The PlanRob workshop is proposed in synergy with ICAPS tracks. We are trying
to explore different ways to synchronize with Humans and Robotics Track but
also with Knowledge Engineering, Integrated Execution and System Architecture
track. The PlanRob WS aims to maintain a more informal forum where also more
preliminary/visionary works can be discussed stimulating direct and open
interactions.
Topics of interest include but not limited to the following:
- planning domain representations for robotics applications;
- mission, path, and motion planning for robots;
- integrated planning and execution in robotic architectures;
- planning and coordination methods for multi-robot teams;
- mixed-initiative planning and sliding autonomy for robotic systems;
- human-aware planning and execution in human-robot interaction;
- adversarial action planning in competitive robotic domains;
- formal methods for robot planning and control;
- P&S methods for optimization and adaptation in robotics;
- benchmark planning domains for robots;
- optimizing behavior in large scale automated or semi-automated systems;
- real-world planning applications for autonomous and intelligent robots.
Important Dates
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Paper submission: March 7, 2020
Notification of acceptance: April 1st, 2020
Camera-ready version due: TBD
Workshop Date: June 14 or June 15, 2020
Submissions
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There are two types of submissions: short position statements and regular
papers. Position papers are a maximum of 4 (four) pages. Regular papers
are a maximum of 10 (ten) pages.
All papers should be typeset in the AAAI style, described at:
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php removing AAAI copyright.
Accepted papers will be published on the workshop website and printed as a hard-copy.
The papers must be submitted in a PDF format via EasyChair system
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=planrob2020).
Notice that papers under review (e.g., submitted to IJCAI-2020) are also welcome,
however, in order to avoid potential conflicts these manuscripts should be
prepared as anonymous submissions for a double blind reviewing process.
The organizers will investigate the availability of journal editors in order
to invite a selection of accepted papers from the workshop to a special issue
or post-proceedings volume.
Organization Chairs
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Michael Cashmore,
university of Strathclyde, U.K.
Alberto Finzi,
Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy
AndreA Orlandini
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Italy