CFP: ICAPS03 workshop on "Planning under Uncertainty and Incomplete Information"

[Marco Pistore <pistore@dit.unitn.it>]

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

                           Workshop on

      "Planning Under Uncertainty and Incomplete Information"

                  to be held in conjunction with

 The 13th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling
                           (ICAPS 2003)

                    Trento, Italy, 9 June 2003   



Controlling intelligent agents in complex real-world environments
poses requirements that are not addressed in classical AI
planning. Often it is not sufficient to find a sequence of actions
leading to a given goal, since the initial state may not be known with
precision, and action effects cannot be predicted with certainty.

In the last years, there has been a growing interest in more general
planning techniques, able to tackle the problems of uncertainty,
nondeterminism, and incomplete information. Several researchers have
proposed more expressive domain models and description languages
(e.g., allowing for actions with multiple transitions, possibly with
different probabilities, and with costs), and more complex models of
execution (e.g., dealing with information gathering at run-time). New
planning techniques and algorithms have been developed to operate on
such extended models and to produce plans that achieve the goals
despite the uncertainty and incompleteness of information.

Following the path of the IJCAI-01 workshop on "Planning under
Uncertainty and Incomplete Information", the goal of this workshop is
to bring together people working in different areas of planning under
uncertain and incomplete information. The workshop aims to strengthen
the empirical standards in the field, build connections between
different approaches, and promote and disseminate test problems,
applications, and techniques.

The workshop is open to contributions and presentations on all aspects
of planning under uncertainty and incomplete information, including
contributions that emphasize:

 * techniques and algorithms for planning with uncertainty, including
   extensions of classical planning, model checking, MDP, and POMDP
   techniques;

 * empirical issues (e.g., evaluation and comparison of different
   approaches, benchmarks, performance measures, language standards,
   common architectures for tool integration,...);

 * relations to other tasks and fields (planning with risk, controller
   synthesis, game theory,...).


Paper Submission Guidelines
===========================

The workshop will be one day long. It will include a mixture of
presentations, invited talks, and panels.

Papers (maximum 10 pages in the AAAI format available from
<http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/macros-link.html>) should be
submitted by email to Marco Pistore <pistore@dit.unitn.it> by March
24th 2003, in Postscript or PDF format.

Workshop proceedings will be prepared by the conference organizers and
distributed at the workshop.


Important Dates
===============

  * Paper submission: March 24th
  * Notification of acceptance: April 11th
  * Final version from authors: April 21th


Questions
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For more information about the workshop, consult
<http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pistore/conferences/ICAPS03-wshop/>
or send email to <pistore@dit.unitn.it>.


Workshop Organizers
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Marco Pistore (University of Trento, Italy)
Hector Geffner (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
David E. Smith (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)


Program Committee
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Alessandro Cimatti (ITC-IRST, Italy)
Hector Geffner (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
Eric Hansen (Mississippi State University, USA)
Sven Koenig (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Michael L. Littman (Rutgers University, USA)
Marco Pistore (University of Trento, Italy)
Jussi Rintanen (Institut für Informatik, Freiburg, Germany)
David E. Smith (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)