CFP: AIPS workshop on Realworld Planning [Veloso]/Yang]

[rao@cotopaxi.eas.asu.edu]

Thanks a lot!
       Manuela

AIPS'202 Workshop, April 23, 2002

Workshop Title: Is There Life Beyond Operator Sequencing? -- Exploring
Real World Planning 

http://www.cs.ust.hk/~qyang/aips02/ 

Paper Submission Deadline: Feb 15, 2002


It is healthy for any scientific field to make critical
self-examinations periodically. A review of recent publications in
major conferences reveal s that the majority of published work in
planning has been the efficient sequencing of operators in a
well-defined state-based world. The majority of this work assumes that
a planning system is given clear goal, operator an d state definitions
in a logical form, and that the task to be accomplished is to find
sequences of operators to achieve these goals. While significant
progress has been made in this direction, a lack of widespread
applicatio ns of this model (as compared to, for example, machine
learning, data mining, and speech recognition) raises questions of
whether these assumptions actually hold in real world applications,
and if this direction of research is indeed highly relevant to
practical applications of planning. The heart of this exploration is
the question: what does real planning involve?

This AIPS9202 workshop is then devoted to the exploration of
alternative views of planning. We wish to organize the workshop to
explore novel issues underlying planning that are beyond operator
sequencing. We will take a bottom-up approach by welcoming
contributions that start at high-impact application areas that might
not be considered as planning traditionally.

 We will further encourage a backwards analysis of the applications
towards alternative views and definitions for planning. The areas of
interest include but are not limited to:

- - Supply Chain Management Applications
- - Real time Robot Planning
- - Real time Multiagent and Multirobot Planning
- - Travel Planning
- - Planning for Information Gathering and Database Queries
- - Planning and Data Mining
- - Financial planning
- - Urban planning
- - Planning in Software Engineering and Workflow Management

In each of these applications, we wish to make clear the nature of the
problem, the issues of interest to planning researchers, exposition of
applications domains, and criteria of success. Issues of interest
include but are not limited to:

- - Planning and execution
- - Plan management
- - Deliberative and reactive planning
- - Plan recognition
- - Plan quality
- - Planning and resource allocations
- - Planning and learning

Researchers wishing to participate in the workshop may submit either
full-length papers (of at most 8 pages) or 1-2 page position papers in
AAAI conference format, using the AAAI macros and templates and the
AAAI instructions. Work being submitted to the AIPS conference can
also be submitted to the workshop. Electronic submissions are highly
preferred, either in postscript or PDF format.

Please forward submissions to Qiang Yang (qyang@cs.ust.hk).  

The important dates are:

Submission: Feb 15, 2002
Notification: March 15, 2002
Final copy: March 22, 2002

Hard copy submissions to one of the co-chairs are also accepted if emails
are not convenient.

Organizing Committee:

Manuela Veloso (co-chair, CMU) Manuela_Veloso@school.coral.cs.cmu.edu
Qiang Yang (co-chair, HKUST Hong Kong) qyang@cs.ust.hk
Richard Goodwin (IBM) rgoodwin@us.ibm.com
Craig Knoblock (ISI/USC) knoblock@isi.edu
Sven Koenig (Georgia Institute of Technology) skoenig@cc.gatech.edu
Bernhard Nebel (Institut fur Informatik, Germany)
nebel@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Wei Zhang (Boeing) wei.zhang@pss.Boeing.com