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Workshop programme (TBD)

THURSDAY 11th December, 2008

8.30 - 9.00

registration

9.00 - 9.10

welcome and opening remarks

Constraints, Planning & Scheduling

Monday

9.10 - 9.40

Enhancing Constraint Models for Planning Problems. R. Bartak, D. Toropila.

9.40 - 09h55

A Constraint Model for the Settlers Planning Domain. P. Gregory, A. Rendl

09.55 - 10.10

PIPSS: Parallel Integrated Planning and Scheduling System. J. Plaza & al. 

10.10-10.40

The Timeline Representation Framework as a Planning and Scheduling Software Development Environment. A. Cesta and S. Fratini.

10.40 - 11.00

coffee break

Planning Context

Monday

11.00 - 11.30

Finding Agreed Plans. G. Wickler

11.30 - 12.00

An Evaluation of Opmaker2.  T. McCluskey & al

12.00 - 12.15

Agent Coordination by Process Calculus for Plan Execution. E. Sim

12.15- 13.45

lunch at ICMS

Applications 1 - Underwater domain

Monday

13.45 - 14.15

The underwater environment: a challenge for planning.  P. Patron, Y. Petillot

14.14 - 14.45

Improving Multi-AUV Coordination with Hierarchical Blackboard-Based Plan Representation. C. Sotzing, D. Lane

14.45 - 15.15

Abstracting The Planner Down Down: An Architecture for Planner Based Control of Autonomous Vehicles. N. Sotzing & al

15.15 - 15.45

coffee break

Applications 2

Monday

15.45 - 16.15

A Mathematical Programming Solution to the Mars Express Memory Dumping. G. Righini and E. Tresodi

16.15 - 16.30

Path Planning for UAVs in Time-Varying Winds, Michael Soulignac & al

16.30 - 17.00

Using Player Models to Improve Robustness of HTN Plans in Non-cooperative Multi-Agent Domains. E. Semsch & al

17.00-17.30

Planning for ORTS, an open-source real time strategy game. S. Armstrong, L. Kelly & al

19.00 - 21.30

Dinner at the APEX Hotel (GrassMarket)

FRIDAY 12th December, 2008

Tuesday
9.00 - 9.30	Incrementally Solving the STP by Enforcing Partial Path Consistency. L. Planken
9.30 - 10.00	Planning with Linear Continuous Numeric Change. A. Coles, A. Coles, M. Fox and D. Long
10.00 - 10.30	Uncertain Probabilistic Roadmaps with Observations. M. Kneebone and R. Dearden
10.30 - 10.45	Finding Plans for Rearranging Robots in θ-like Environments. Pavel Surynek
10.45 - 11.15	coffee break
Tuesday
11.15 - 11.30	Exploiting plans, ontologies and constraints in a matchmaker model. A. Odetunji & R. Wallace
11.30 - 12.00	Preference-Oriented Planning for Achieving Satisfactory Emotional States. D. Perez & al
12.00 - 12.30	Extending the HiPPo Visual Planning Algorithm to Images with Overlapping Objects. M. Sridharan, R. Dearden
12.30 - 13.00	Abstracting Chains of Reasoning.  A. Lindsay, M. Fox and D. Long
13.00 - 14.30	lunch

Important Dates:

Submissions: October 13^th 2008
Notification: November 14^th 2008
Early registration: November 07^th-21^st 2008
Final versions: November 21^st
Workshop: December 11-12, 2008

Organization:

Ruth Aylett
Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom, R.S.Aylett@hw.ac.uk

Yvan Petillot
Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom, Y.R.Petillot@hw.ac.uk

Pedro Patron
Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom, P.Patron@hw.ac.uk