CfP: IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Planning with Resources

[Alexander Nareyek <alex@ai-center.com> (by way of Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>)]

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                 Call for Papers/Participation

                     IJCAI-2001 Workshop on
                    Planning with Resources

                Seattle, WA, USA, August 4, 2001

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Resources  such as time,  money and machines are fundamental
features   of   real-world   planning   problems.   However,
conventional  AI  planning systems are not normally  capable
of  handling these requirements.  In recent years,  with the
ongoing  orientation  toward real-world  applications,  many
researchers  have  begun working on techniques for  resource
handling.  In this context,  optimization goals  other  than
plan length are also gaining importance.

The  workshop is intended to bring together researchers from
communities  such  as  AI planning,  scheduling,  constraint
programming  and  linear programming.  The workshop aims  to
promote  communication  between  researchers  and  seeks  to
highlight  new  and  interesting  ideas  for  planning  with
resources. Workshop topics will include:

  * hybrid systems: separate planning and resource handling
  * integrated systems
  * reasoning techniques for resources
  * temporal planning
  * planning and scheduling
  * planning with nontrivial optimization goals
  * problem modeling, problem domains and benchmark results

In  addition to paper presentations,  there will be  invited
talks and panel discussions addressing the following topics:

  * Are  conventional planning techniques still valid  within
    the   extended   framework  or  are   there   fundamental
    differences  that  require a substantial revision of  our
    approaches?
  * What  can we learn from related areas such as  operations
    research and constraint programming? Can we - and, if so,
    how can we - adopt these techniques?


--- ATTENDANCE ---

Attendance will be limited to 40 participants.  Participants
will be selected based on refereed submissions.  If you wish
to  attend  but are not submitting a paper,  please  send  a
one-page statement of interest by the submission deadline.


--- SUBMISSIONS ---

Paper  submissions  should  be  no longer  than  six  pages.
Guidelines  for  the  submission  format  can  be  found  at
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/macros-link.html

Papers may be submitted by e-mailing a document's URL to the
workshop chair.  If this is not possible, please contact the
workshop chair. Accepted submissions will be distributed and
included in the workshop notes.

Submission Deadline:   March 23, 2001
Notification Date:     April 9, 2001
Final Submission Due:  April 22, 2001
Workshop Held:         August 4, 2001


--- CHAIR ---

Alexander Nareyek
GMD FIRST
Kekuléstraße 7
D - 12489 Berlin
Germany

Tel: +49 177 792 37 36
Fax: +49 30 6392 1805
E-mail: alex@ai-center.com


--- COMMITTEE ---

Steve Chien        NASA JPL
Brian Drabble      CIRL
Malik Ghallab      LAAS - CNRS
Ari K. Jonsson     NASA Ames
Jana Koehler       Schindler Lifts Ltd.
Nicola Muscettola  NASA Ames
Alexander Nareyek  GMD FIRST
Joachim P. Walser  i2 Technologies


--- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ---

IJCAI-2001 Homepage:
http://www.boeing.com/nosearch/ijcai/

Workshop Homepage:
http://www.ai-center.com/events/ijcai-2001-ws/