[CFP] workshop on the International Planning Competition. Deadline approaching

[Mauro Vallati]

[Apologies if you receive this CFP multiple times]

Call For Papers
The organisers of the Workshop on the International Planning Competition seek submissions.

The International Planning Competition (IPC) is held every two or three years within the International Conference on Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). The IPC has become a reference source for developing planning techniques as well as advancing planning models and languages, benchmark problems, planning engines, and evaluation metrics. Currently the IPC comprises three parts: (1) The deterministic part for the evaluation of domain-independent planners in deterministic and fully observable environments. This part has been the main focus of the IPC over the years; (2) The learning part, for planners able to learn and exploit domain-specific knowledge in deterministic planning, and (3) the uncertainty part for domain-independent planners able to plan under uncertainty.

Similar to the lineage of IPC workshops organised at ICAPS 2003, 2007, and 2012, this workshop aims to review the current status of the IPC and provide a venue for discussing aspects that will be helpful for preparing forthcoming competitions. Topics include, but need not be limited to:

    Past, present and future of the IPC
    Proposing new and/or revising the current tracks
    Domain Definition Languages (benefits and limitations)
    challenging domains for heuristic search planning
    Benchmark Domains
    Benchmark Problem generation and selection
    Evaluation Metrics
    Results (interpretation, informativeness)

Submissions
Paper submission is in PDF only. Please format submissions in AAAI style (see instructions at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php) Final papers will be in the same format, keep them to at most 8+1 pages long (meaning 8 pages plus 1 extra page containing only references). We also welcome the submission of short position papers (at most 4+1 pages long).

Paper Submissions should be made through the workshop EasyChair web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipc15.

Deadline and Dates
    Submission deadline: February 20, 2015
    Notification: March 20, 2015
    Workshop date: June 7th or 8th, 2015

Organizers
    Lukas Chrpa, University of Huddersfield
    Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield
    Mark "Mak" Roberts, NRC Postdoc, Naval Research Laboratory
    Scott Sanner, NICTA and the Australian National University
    Mauro Vallati, University of Huddersfield


Program Committee

    Daniel Borrajo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
    Amanda Coles, King's College London, UK
    Andrew Coles, King's College London, UK
    Héctor Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
    Alfonso Gerevini, University of Brescia, Italy
    Sergio Jiménez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
    Erez Karpas, MIT, USA
    Carlos Linares Lopez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain