(Second) Call for Proposals to host ICAPS 2008

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

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>  		Call for proposals to host ICAPS 2008
>
>
>                      Dead line : Sunday May 21, 2006
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>
>  The ICAPS Executive Council is seeking proposals to host the 2008
>  International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling.
>   ICAPS is
>  the premier international conference focused on the field of
>  automated
>  planning and scheduling.
>
>  - ICAPS'06 will be held on June 6 to 10, at Cumbria, Lake
>  District, UK.
>  - ICAPS'07 will take place on September 10-14, at Providence, Rhode
>  Island, USA.
>
>
>  Proposals to host ICAPS'08 should include::
>
>
>  * Organizers and Organizational Structure
>
>  The proposal should indicate proposed program chair(s) and any other
>  proposed conference committee members (e.g., conference chair, local
>  arrangements chair), and include a short CV of each. A preliminary
>  list of program committee members would also be useful.
>
>  * Proposed conference dates and timetable
>
>      Provisional time-table - should include submission-date;
>  reviewing
>      period; author notification date, for conferences,
>  workshops, etc.
>
>  * Venue
>
>      Details of the venue and accommodations available to delegates
>      including information about conference facilities, transportation
>      access, accommodation and venue attractiveness.
>
>      Previous experience of the local organization team in organizing
>      similar events.
>
>  * Format
>
>      Information on the format of the conference (e.g. single
>  track vs.
>      multi-track, posters vs. presentations, etc.)
>
>      Special related events such as potential invited
>  speakers, workshops,
>      competitions, demonstrations, visits, etc.
>
>      Nature of any collocation with other conferences.
>
>  * An outline budget of the the event, including information regarding
>     the break-even point, registration fees and model (e.g., whether a
>     single fee applies to all events, policy for joint
>  registration with
>     collocated conferences), policy and support for students and young
>     researchers.
>
>  * List of potential sponsors and support organizations.
>
>  * Proposed format for proceedings.
>
>  * Logistics
>
>  If the conference is outside North America, include a brief
>  description of the organization that will handle the logistics
>  (managing registration, issuing badges, staffing registration desk,
>  financial management, etc.)
>
>
>
>  A number of other items would be positively considered,
>  however, each of
>  these is only one of several factors that the executive council will
>  consider in their decision.
>
>  - Proposals that foster interaction and cross fertilization
>  with related
>     fields (such as collocation with related conferences).
>
>  - Proposals that include means for encouraging and including
>  members of
>     the community in early phases of their careers are also
>  welcomed (such
>     as the doctoral consortium).
>
>  - Proposals that include means for fostering new areas of work and
>     growing potentially under-represented areas of work (such as the
>     special tracks).
>
>
>  Proposers should note that
>  - funds are available carried over from previous conferences as seed
>     money for future conferences. This money is required to
>  guarantee the
>     existence of the conference series and each organization
>  applying to
>     host ICAPS must show how they aim to cover all costs of the event.
>  - ICAPS is a "AAAI affiliated conference": AAAI provides
>     conference services when the conference is in North
>  America; AAAI Press
>     publishes the ICAPS Proceedings, including online version
>  of the proceedings.
>
>
>  Proposals to host ICAPS should be sent electronically (PDF file) to:
>
>  	icaps-council@aig.jpl.nasa.gov
>
>  Please submit proposals by
>
>  	Sunday May 21, 2006
>
>
>  Proposers are welcome to contact  the Conference Liaison or other
>  members of the ICAP Council for informal consultation, and/or to
>  submit draft proposals before that deadline.
>
>  Please get in touch with the Conference Liaison Officer
>      Enrico Giunchiglia <giunchiglia@unige.it>
>
>  for
>  - comments or advice on particular points,
>  - statistics on previous ICAPS conferences,
>  - past successful proposals (pending the agreement of their
>  proposers).
>  Clearly the closer to the deadline, the harder it will be to
>  offer feedback.
>
>
>  Information about previous and next conferences and guidelines about
>  ICAPS is available at
>
>  	http://www.icaps-conference.org/
>