Deadline extended to April 4, 2024!Banff, Canada
June 2-3, 2024
https://icaps24.icaps-conference.org/program/workshops/keps/Aim and Scope of the WorkshopDespite
the progress in automated planning and scheduling systems, these
systems still need to be fed by carefully engineered domain and problem
descriptions and they need to be fine-tuned for particular domains and
problems. Knowledge engineering for AI planning and scheduling deals
with the acquisition, design, validation and maintenance of domain
models, and the selection and optimization of appropriate machinery to
work on them. These processes impact directly on the success of
real-world planning and scheduling applications. The importance of
knowledge engineering techniques is clearly demonstrated by a
performance gap between domain-independent planners and planners
exploiting domain-dependent knowledge.
The workshop will continue
the tradition of several International Competitions on Knowledge
Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (ICKEPS) and prior KEPS
workshops. Rather than focusing only on software tools and domain
encoding techniques---which are topics of ICKEPS (also running this year
as part of the
ICAPS 2024 Summer School)---the workshop will cover all aspects of knowledge engineering for AI planning and scheduling.
Topics of InterestWe seek original papers ranging from experience reports to the description of new technology in the following areas:
- Formulation of domains and problem descriptions
- Methods and tools for the acquisition of domain knowledge
- Pre- and post-processing techniques for planners and schedulers
- Acquisition and refinement of control knowledge
- Formal languages for describing domains
- Re-use of domain knowledge
- Translators from other application area-specific languages to solver-ready domain models (such as PDDL)
- Formats for the specification of heuristics, parameters and control knowledge for solvers
- Import of domain knowledge from general ontologies
- Ontologies for describing the capabilities of planners and schedulers
- Automated reformulation of problems
- Automated knowledge extraction processes
- Domain model, problem and plan validation
- Visualization methods for domain models, search spaces and plans
- Mapping domain properties and planning techniques
- Plan representation and reuse
- Knowledge engineering aspects of plan analysis
Important Dates- Paper submission deadline:
March 28, 2024 April 4, 2024(UTC-12) - Notification: April 28, 2024
- Camera-ready paper submission: May 10, 2024
The
reference timezone for all deadlines is UTC-12. That is, as long as
there is still some place anywhere in the world where the deadline has
not yet passed, you are on time!
Submission DetailsTwo
types of papers can be submitted. Full technical papers with the length
up to 8 pages + 1 for references, are standard research papers. Short
papers with the length between 2 and 4 pages (+1 for references)
describe either a particular application or focus on open challenges.
All papers must be submitted in a PDF format and must conform to the
ICAPS 2024 author kit instructions for formatting:
https://icaps24.icaps-conference.org/calls/main_track/The submission will be done via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=keps24Policy on Previously Published MaterialsWe
are pleased to accept papers based on recent publications from other
(non-ICAPS) venues such as specialized conferences (AAMAS, ICRA, KR,
...), or general AI conferences (AAAI, IJCAI, ECAI, ...). Such
submissions must be clearly indicated in the paper.
Submissions
of papers being reviewed at other venues are welcome since this is a
non-archival venue and we will not require a transfer of copyright. If
such papers are currently under blind review, please anonymize the
submission.
Organising Committee- Lukas Chrpa, Czech Technical University
- Ron Petrick, Heriot-Watt University
- Mauro Vallati, University of Huddersfield
- Tiago Vaquero, NASA JPL