Second Planning Summer School: Announcement

[rao@cotopaxi.eas.asu.edu]

Rao,

Would you mind distributing this on the Planning List?

Thanks
Sam Steel

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	PLANET International Summer School on AI Planning 2002

			September 16-22, 2002
			  Halkidiki, Greece


	  http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/PLANET/summer-school-02/


The previous PLANET Summer School on AI Planning in 2000 was a great
success.  It said

	Domain independent planning is a thriving area of research in
	both Europe and the US, encompassing an increasingly diverse
	range of techniques and approaches. Although domain
	independent planning has been a lively area of academic
	research for many years, the resulting technology has had few
	large scale applications in the industrial and commercial
	sectors. An important barrier to their use has been the need
	to acquire planning expertise before it is possible to be an
	effective user.

That remains true, so in 2002 there will be another summer school,
similar in structure but covering different topics from all parts of
planning.


	Lecturers and Topics in 2002

Michael Beetz (University of Munich, Germany)
	Planning and robotics

Susanne Biundo (University of Ulm, Germany)
	Planning history and Overview

Craig Boutilier (University of Toronto, Canada)
	Planning in Nondeterministic Domains

Brian Drabble (CIRL, University of Oregon, USA)
	Scheduling and planning

Maria Fox (University of Durham, UK)
	Planners Performance Evaluation

Craig Knoblock (Information Sciences Institute, USA)
	Planning and the Web

Philippe Laborie (ILOG, France)
	Planning with resources

Martha Pollack (University of Michigan, USA)
	Planning and execution


Cost: 225 euros for registration and accommodation

For information about how to apply, go to

     http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/PLANET/summer-school-02/


Organizing Committee

Programme
	Susanne Biundo(University of Ulm, Germany)
	Enrico Giunchiglia (University of Genoa, Italy)
	Sam Steel (University of Essex, UK)
Local arrangements
	Ioannis Refanidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
	Ioannis Vlahavas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)