ICAPS 2012 3rd Workshop on the International Planning Competition (IPC)

[Scott Sanner]

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                           3rd Workshop on International Planning Competition
           International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2012)

                                                   Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil
                                                           June 25-29, 2012

                                   http://icaps12.poli.usp.br/icaps12/workshops/ipc
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The International Planning Competition (IPC) was created in 1998 within the framework of the
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS),  to set a common 

ground for comparing different planning techniques. Nowadays the IPC is considered a 

reference source when building a planner and most of the new planning techniques presented
at ICAPS are evaluated regarding the languages, benchmarks and metrics defined in the 

competition.  However, several critiques have been raised concerning the necessity and 

usefulness of several aspects of the competition.

Given the relevance of IPC and continuing with the lineage of the workshops organized at 

ICAPS 2003 and 2007, this workshop aims to review the current status of the IPC, and to 

help to determine/sketch/prepare the forthcoming competition, the Eight International 

Planning Competition. This workshop seeks submissions of contributed work in the 

following topics:

 * IPC Format:
 + Review/criticize the existing tracks. What worked, what did not,
 and what needs to be changed/improved in each track.
 + Proposals for new competition tracks, e..g., an application track?
 a Planning and Execution track?
 + IPC Languages: Review of current representation languages,
 assessment, comparison with other modeling languages and proposals
 for possible extensions.

 * IPC Evaluation:
 + Domains and problems:Review/criticize the current
 domains, with respect to their complexity, closeness to real-world
 applications, whether or not the current problem sets are adequate
 in representing the technical challenges in different
 classes... Proposal for new domains, particularly ones that can
 capture critical constraints in real-world applications.
  + Evaluation Criteria: Review/criticize the current evaluation
 approach and proposals for changes/standardization.

 * IPC Results:
 + IPC-2011: Review of the performance of different types of planners
 (e.g. satisfiability, state-space heuristic, portfolios) with
 respect to various types of domains. Identifying problem structures
 that are suitable for different types of planner.
 + IPC from 1998 to 2011: Review of the evolution of planners
 throughout the competition history. What kind of planner do we seek?
 Can it be proven that a significant progress has been achieved?


Submission Procedure
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Paper submission is in PDF only. Please format submissions in AAAI
style. Refer to the author instructions on the AAAI web site for
detailed formatting instructions and LaTeX style files. 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).

Papers must be submitted by February 20th, 2012. All ICAPS deadlines
refer to 23:59 in the UTC-12 time zone. (So if there is still some
place in the world where the deadline has not yet passed, you are on
time.)

Paper Submissions should be made through the workshop EasyChair web
site https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icapswipc2012


Important Dates:
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 * Papers Submission: February 20th, 2012
 * Notifications of acceptance: April 13th, 2012
 * Camera-Ready Paper Submissions: April 30th, 2012
 * Workshop Date: June 25-26th, 2012


Organizers:
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 * Amanda Coles, King's College London, UK
 * Andrew Coles, King's College London, UK
 * Angel García Olaya,  Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN
 * Sergio Jiménez. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN
 * Carlos Linares López,  Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN
 * Scott Sanner, NICTA and the ANU, AUSTRALIA


Program Committee:
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 * Blai Bonet, Universidad Simón Bolívar
 * Daniel Borrajo,  Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
 * Stefan Edelkamp, University of Bremen
 * Alan Fern, Oregon State University
 * Héctor Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
 * Alfonso Gerevini, Universitá  degli Studi di Brescia
 * Malte Helmert, University of Basel
 * Jorg Hoffmann, INRIA
 * Derek Long, King's College London
 * Mausam, University of Washington
 * Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield,
 * Héctor Palacios, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
 * Prasad Tadepalli, Oregon State University
 * Sungwook Yoon, PARC