ECP 2001 Pre-Conference Workshop Announcement (PLANET Workshop)Subject: ECP 2001 Pre-Conference Workshop Announcement and CFP (PLANET Workshop)

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@cotopaxi.eas.asu.edu>]

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        Announcement of a pre-conference workshop 
          co-organized by  ECP'01  and  PLANET, the 
        European Network of Excellence in AI Planning


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* Automated Planning and Scheduling Technologies in        *
* New Methods of Electronic, Mobile and Collaborative Work *
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*************** CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS *********************

 ON: Tuesday, September 11th, 2001
 AT: Museum Victorio Macho, Toledo, Spain
     (co-located with ECP-01)

The field of artificial intelligence planning and scheduling
could provide the technology to increase the autonomy of systems
by making them more flexible, robust, and adaptive.
Planning and scheduling technology is relevant to many aspects of
system-supported synthesis, execution, and monitoring of courses
of actions, activities, and tasks. With that it is central to a
variety of processes in most enterprises and organisations.
The technology has a particular impact in view of the emerging
electronic markets and the new associated business processes.
In particular, it can fruitfully contribute to manage the
complexity and the flexibility issues posed by Web applications and
mobile and collaborative work via the Web.
The fast evolution of Web applications has lead to a broad notion
of e-tasks, including but not limited to e-commerce, where the
relevant topics are reliability, flexibility, adaptation, automation
of activities in the unpredictable, dynamical and time bounded Web
environment.  Applications such as supply chain management or other
multistage Web transactions reinforce the need for increasingly
autonomous and flexible systems.  This includes the construction
and operation of adaptive Web sites, the planning and scheduling
of complex Web transactions as well as their monitoring.

Aim of the Workshop:

The aim of the workshop is to present and discuss in a working and
collaborative atmosphere current results and perspectives for
planning and scheduling technologies in new methods of work, in
particular through the exploitation of e-commerce/e-work and the
Internet, and through new modes of mobile and collaborative working.
In this context, examples of topics of interest for the workshop
are (but not limited to):

 -models, languages and integration issues for planning and scheduling
   on the Web
 -Web-based collaborative work
 -user interface and other issues  relating to mobile planning and
   scheduling
 -planning models for online interaction, user monitoring,
 -process management and workflow
 -distance learning, online education, e-learning
 -information gathering
 -automatic and adaptive generation/maintenance of Web resources
 -supply chain management
 -mixed-initiative planning and scheduling for Web applications


Format:

The workshop will be a one-day event organized in
conjunction with ECP-01 (http://scalab.uc3m.es/~ecp01/)
and sponsored by PLANET (http://www.planet-noe.org/).
It will include invited talk(s), with the bulk of the day devoted to
contributions selected on the basis of relevance with respect to
the workshops goals and their scientific level.

Website: http://scom.hud.ac.uk/planet/ecp01_workshop/

Submissions:

Papers should be a maximum of 5000 words, and should be submitted
by email to Alfredo Milani at milani@unipg.it by July 23th 2001 at the latest,
in (gzip/winzip) COMPRESSED postscript, pdf or word formats.
All submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees and
the referees' decision will be conveyed to the first author by August 10th.
Final electronic versions of papers will be expected by September 4th
at the latest, and will be placed on the Web.
Accepted contributors will be expected to present their
paper at the workshop, which  will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Selected workshop contributions will be published in a special issue of
the PLANET Newsletter.

Organising Committee:

Ricardo Aler Mur, (Local Arrangements)
University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Avenida de la Universidad, 30
28911 Leganis
Madrid, Spain
aler@inf.uc3m.es
Tel: +34-91-624 9418
Fax: +34-91-624 9430

Lee McCluskey (Co-Chair)
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
School of Computing and Mathematics,
The University of Huddersfield,
Queensgate,
Huddersfield,
West Yorks HD1 3DH, UK
lee@zeus.hud.ac.uk
tel: +44 1484 472247
fax: +44 1484 421106

Alfredo Milani (Co-Chair)
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Universita' degli Studi di Perugia
Via Vanvitelli 1
06100 Perugia, Italy
milani@unipg.it
tel.+39-075-585.5049
fax +39-075-585.5024

Programme Committee:

Jose Luis Ambite (ISI, University of Southern California, USA)
Ruth Aylett (University of Salford, UK)
Susanne Biundo (University of Ulm, Germany)
Daniel Borrajo (University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
David Camacho (University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Luis Castillo (University of Granada, Spain)
Tim Grant (Atos Origin, The Netherlands)
Angelo Oddi (IP-CNR, Italy)

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