Welcome!

[Mauro Vallati]

Dear participant,

Welcome to the IPC 2014! We are very happy to announce that we had a high number of registrations:

    * Sequential satisficing: 43 planners
    * Sequential optimization: 34 planners
    * Sequential multi-core: 17 planners
    * Sequential agile: 17 planners

    * Temporal satisficing: 9 planners
    * Temporal optimization: 6 planners

    * Preferences satisficing: 5 planners
    * Preferences optimization: 5 planners

Here you are a few remarks:

   1. The deadline for submitting domains is November, 15th. More details at http://helios.hud.ac.uk/scommv/IPC-14/domains.html
      If you are interested in proposing a new domain but you think you cannot make it on time please contact us
   2. We have published some details about the hardware we plan to use for the evaluation http://helios.hud.ac.uk/scommv/IPC-14/rules.html
   3. We will provide soon demo problems at http://helios.hud.ac.uk/scommv/IPC-14/software.html
   4. Please check regularly the IPC2014-deterministic google group. We will post there instructions and communications.

Regarding planners submission:
In IPC 2014, an ssh access to the cluster (that will be used for the evaluation) will be provided to each registered team. Thus, participants will be able to compile and test their software in order to minimise the number of bugs :)
A ticketing system will be made available for supporting teams and to handle software related issues (e.g., missing libraries, missing compilers etc.).

Further information for accessing the cluster and submitting planners will follow.


Best regards