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 Topics of interest include (but are not limited
to):
Algorithms: novel planning and scheduling
algorithms.
Applications: empirical studies of
existing planning/scheduling systems; domain-specific techniques; heuristic
techniques; user interfaces for planning and scheduling; evaluation metrics
for plans/schedules; verification and validation of plans/schedules. Applications
example of real world problems are particularly welcomed.
Architectures: real-time support for
planning/scheduling/control; mixed-initiative planning and user interfaces;
integration of planning and scheduling; integration of planning/scheduling
and Fault Detection Isolation and Recovery (FDIR); planning and scheduling
in autonomous systems.
Environmental and
Task Models:
analyses of the dynamics of environments, tasks, and domains with regard to
different models of planning and execution; verification and validation of
domain models.
Formal Models: reasoning about knowledge,
action, and time; representations and ontologies for planning and
scheduling; search methods and analysis of algorithms; formal
characterisation of existing planners and schedulers.
Intelligent Agency: resource-bounded reasoning;
distributed problem solving; integrating reaction and deliberation.
Learning: learning in the context of
planning and execution; learning new plans and operators; learning in the
context of scheduling and schedule maintenance.
Memory Based
Approaches:
case-based planning/scheduling; plan and operator learning and reuse;
incremental planning.
Reactive Systems: environmentally driven devices/behaviours;
reactive control; behaviours in the context of minimal representations;
schedule maintenance.
Robotics: Motion and path planning;
planning and control; planning and perception, integration of planning and
perceptual systems.
Constraint-based
Planning/Scheduling and Control Techniques: constraint/preference
propagation techniques, variable/value ordering heuristics, intelligent
backtracking/RMS-based techniques, iterative repair heuristics, etc.
Coordination
Issues in Decentralised/Distributed planning/scheduling: coordination issues in both
homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, system architecture issues,
integration of strategic and tactical decision making; collaborative
planning/scheduling.
Iterative
Improvement Techniques for Combinatorial Optimisation: genetic algorithms,
simulated annealing, tabu search, neural nets, etc applied to scheduling
and/or planning.
Artificial
Intelligence and Operations Research: comparative studies and innovative applications
combining AI and OR techniques applied to scheduling and/or planning.
Planning/scheduling
under uncertainty:
coping with uncertain, ill-specified or changing domains, environments and
problems; application of uncertainty reasoning techniques to
planning/scheduling, including MDPs, POMDPs, Belief Networks, stochastic
programming, and stochastic satisfiability.
Full papers: (8
pages). These
should report work in progress or completed work. Authors of full papers
that are accepted by the Programme Committee will be invited to give a talk
on the paper.
Short papers: (2
pages) These
should report views or ambitions, or describe problems. The author(s) will
be able to discuss the paper informally with others at the workshop and
will be invited to give a short presentation on their work.
All papers should be
prepared in the AAAI style.
Please prepare your paper using the template in DOC
format or LaTeX style sheet, just remove the
AAAI copyright. The language of all papers and presentations should be
English.
Papers should be submitted
using EasyChair (www.easychair.org). The URL for
submissions is : http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=ukplansig09.
Documents should be
in gzipped postscript or PDF format and be named "author.ps.gz"
or "author.pdf.gz", using the name of the first author. The pages
should NOT be numbered.
All submissions will
be reviewed by (at least) two referees, and successful submissions will
appear in the Workshop Proceedings. Accepted papers will also be made
available via the SIG web-site.
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Important Dates:
Submissions:
October 13th 2008
Notification: November 14th 2008
Early registration: November 07th-21st 2008
Final versions: November 21st
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
Program
Committee :
Chris Beck, University
of Toronto, Canada
Ken Brown, University College
Cork, Ireland
Roman Bartak, Prague,
Czech Republic
Edmund Burke, University
of Nottingham, UK
Luis Castillo, University of Granada, Spain
Amedeo Cesta, ISTC, Italy
Alex Coddington, University of Strathclyde, UK
Andrew Coles, University of Strathclyde, UK
Stefan Edelkamp, Dortmund, Germany
Susana Fernández, Madrid, Spain
Antonio Garrido,
Valencia, Spain
Tim Grant, University
of Pretoria, South Africa
Joerg Hoffmann, Innsbruck, Austria
Peter Jarvis, NASA Ames
Research Center, USA
Graham Kendall, University
of Nottingham, UK
Philippe Laborie, ILOG, France
John Levine, University
of Strathclyde, UK
Derek Long, University
of Strathclyde, UK
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield, UK
Barry O'Sullivan, Cork,
Ireland
Sanja Petrovic, University
of Nottingham, UK
Nicola Policella, ESA, Germany
Patrick Prosser, University
of Glasgow, UK
Hana Rudová, Brno, Czech
Republic
Wheeler Ruml,
New Hampshire, USA
Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, UK
Amanda Smith, University of
Strathclyde, UK
Sam Steel, University
of Essex, UK
Andrew Tuson, City
University, UK
Jozsef Vancza, SZTAKI, Hungary
Roman
van der Krogt, 4C, Ireland
Petr Vilím, ILOG, France
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