Request for Comments and Participation
As many of you know this year IJCAI is experimenting with "Challenge
papers" (a detailed description of the motivation behind which can be
found here)
Briefly, a challenge is expected to instigate a narrowly focused
program of research culminating in papers submitted to the following
IJCAI that address the technical challenge and summarize progress.
I submitted one of the accepted papers titled "Challenges in bridging
plan synthesis paradigms" and it explores the question
of whether or not the body of work underlying traditional refinement
planning techniques can play a useful role given the current dominance
of methods that compile planning problems into CSP instances. I sketch
a generalized view of refinement planning that encompasses both types
of planning techniques, and suggest several interesting problems that
can be tackled within that framework. A draft of this paper is
available at http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/challenge.html
The reason I am bringing this all up is I am interested in gathering a
seed group of people who might be interested in tackling these
problems or variants, and solicit their comments on the current
version. If there is sufficient interest, I could start a small
mailing list for us interested folks to exchange information on the
topic.
I am also interested in hearing from anyone who might be interested in
the general area but would like to see different or more broader
phrasing of some of the challenges. This is one of the reasons I am
sending this message out early rather than wait till the formal
presentation at IJCAI.
Subbarao Kambhampati
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