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Special session on learning and adaptation in planning in IC-AI CFP
Hi Rao,
Tara Estlin is a member of your planning newsgroup, and she
suggested that I send this CFP to you. Would you please post this
for people whom you think will be interested in this session at
IC-AI this summer?
Thank you!
Barbara Engelhardt
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Artificial Intelligence Group
[Apologies for cross-posting]
[Please forward to anyone who may be interested]
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Preliminary Call for Papers
Special Session on "Learning and Adapting in AI Planning"
at IC-AI 2001
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 25-28, 2001
http://mcs.open.ac.uk/mg343/AI-session.htm
__________________________________________________________________
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A Special Session on "Learning and Adapting in AI Planning" will
take
place
at the Monte Carlo Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA) during June
25-28,
2001
as part of the 2001 International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence
(IC-AI 2001, held in conjunction with the International
Multiconference:
http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/).
Scope and Overview:
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The past few years have seen dramatic advances in planning
algorithms
and
paradigms. Recent systems can quickly solve problems that are
orders of
magnitude harder than those tackled by the best previous planners.
However,
if planning systems are to find wide application in real-world
situations,
they need to be able to offer good quality, real-time performances
over
a
large range of problems. The thesis underlying this session is
that in
order
to do so, not only must planners be fast, but also be flexible and
able
to
adapt automatically to different problems and domains.
Two current approaches tackling this issue from different
perspectives
are:
1) the automatic extraction of domain-specific knowledge through
domain
analysis, and 2) the acquisition of domain-specific or
search-control
knowledge and procedural abstractions through the employment of
learning
techniques. In order to discuss the state of the art of these
areas of
research and stimulate their cross-fertilisation, we invite
submissions
of
papers on one or both of these approaches. More specifically,
topics of
particular interest concern the development of planning systems or
algorithms that can learn from past experience, and/or
automatically
analyse
and adapt to new problem domains, in order to 1) offer good
performances
over a wide range of different situations or 2) improve efficiency
or
plan
quality on the basis of failures and successes.
Topics will include (but not be limited to):
- inference of invariants through domain analysis and hypothesis
testing;
- acquisition of domain knowledge in incomplete or inaccurate
domains;
- acquisition of strategies for action selection;
- acquisition of heuristics for state-space or plan-space search;
- learning macro-operators;
- learning plan-rewriting rules;
- reinforcement learning for conformant and stochastic planning;
- integration of planning, learning and execution;
and, in general, the use of any learning technique (such as
explanation-based, inductive, supervised, analytic or by-analogy
learning)
for improvement and optimisation of current state-of-the-art
planning
systems.
Submission Guidelines:
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Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers
(about 4 or
5
single-spaced pages) to the Session Chair, Dr. Max Garagnani
(address
given
below) by ** MARCH 1, 2001 **. The first page of the draft paper
should
include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address,
telephone
number, fax and E-mail address of each author. The first page
should
also
include the name of the Contact Author for notification of
acceptance,
and a
maximum of 5 keywords. The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if
accepted)
will be limited to 7 pages. Papers must not have been previously
published
or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
Electronic submission is preferred. Papers can be submitted via
e-mail
or
made available on the web. In both cases, documents should be in
ZIPPED
PostScript or PDF format and be named "author.zip", using the name
of
the
Contact Author. An e-mail message containing either the file or
its URL
address (e.g. http://....../author.zip) should reach the Session
Chair
by
Thursday 1st March, 2001. If electronic submission is not
possible,
three
hard copies should reach the Session Chair by the same date.
Notice that
the
final version of accepted papers must be made available in
PostScript,
PDF,
or source form. We strongly encourage to use LaTeX for the
preparation
of
papers. Other formats are likely to be troublesome.
Evaluation Process:
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Papers will be evaluated for originality, relevance, significance,
soundness
and clarity. Each paper will be refereed by (at least) two
researchers
in
the topical area; written reviews will be returned to authors. The
Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one person. Accepted
papers are
expected to be presented at IC-AI 2001 during the Special Session.
Publication:
-----------
Accepted papers will be published under the title of the Session
in the
IC-AI 2001 Conference Proceedings. The Proceedings will be
published by
CSREA Press (ISBN) in hardcopy and will be available at the
Conference.
Soon
after the Conference, some accepted papers will also be considered
for
journal publication.
Important Dates:
---------------
- March 1, 2001 (Thursday): Draft papers (about 4 to 5 pages)
due
- April 1, 2001 (Sunday): Notification of acceptance
- May 1, 2001 (Tuesday): Camera-Ready papers and
Pre-registration
due
- June 25 - 28, 2001: Session & IC-AI Conference
Location:
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The Special Session will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort Hotel,
Las
Vegas,
Nevada, USA. This is a mega hotel with excellent conference
facilities
and
over 3,000 rooms. The Hotel is minutes from the Las Vegas airport,
and
offers many vacation and recreational attractions, including:
waterfalls,
casino, spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River water
ride,
wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis courts, health spa (with
workout
equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game
rooms,
nightly shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
bars,
...
Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a day and most are
suitable
for
families and children. The negotiated hotel's room rate for
conference
attendees is very reasonable (79USD + tax) per night (no extra
charge
for
double occupancy) for the duration of the conference.
Program Committee & Contact Information:
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Ricardo Aler Mur, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
Barbara Engelhardt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA)
Maria Fox, Unversity of Durham (UK)
John Levine, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Derek Long, University of Durham (UK)
Peter Stone, AT&T Labs (USA)
We are planning to include some more people in the Programme
Committee.
Those interested in joining the Committee should e-mail the
Session
Chair
(M.Garagnani@open.ac.uk) a short biography or CV together with
research
interests.
All submissions, queries or comments should be mailed or e-mailed
to the
Session Chair:
Dr. Max Garagnani
Department of Computing
The Open University,
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
U.K.
Phone: +44 (0)1908 654812
Secr.: +44 (0)1908 653037
Fax: +44 (0)1908 652140
E-mail: M.Garagnani@open.ac.uk
URL: http://mcs.open.ac.uk/mg343
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