Thought that maybe somebody would be interested. Apologies to those
who are not.
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Call for Papers and Participation
3rd Workshop on Planning and Plan Execution for Real-
World Systems
Principles and Practices for Planning in Execution
(http://www.mbari.org/autonomy/ICAPS07-workshop/)
Held in conjunction with
17th International Conference on Automated Planning and
Scheduling (ICAPS'07)
(http://icaps07.icaps-conference.org/)
September 22-26, 2007
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Aim of the Workshop
Early approaches to robot control were based on the Sense-Plan-Act
(SPA) paradigm with planning as the core of a control-loop. Using this
paradigm, real-world applications merging deliberative and reactive
decision have made remarkable strides in the last few years. These
systems have evolved from the classical concept of three-layered
control running off-board, to demonstrate dynamic control of a
multitude of platforms using onboard and hybrid mixed-initiative
techniques. In the meantime, automated planning techniques have
evolved substantially in the areas of modeling, reasoning methods, and
search algorithms. Together these advances open up new possibilities
for how planning technology can be applied in execution, but also
reveal new concerns like the interaction between different decisional
components or the possible conflict between decision and environmental
reality. The goal of this workshop is to integrate practical
experience in fielded autonomous systems with theoretical and
empirical results in automated planning to stimulate new perspectives
on the roles and requirements for planning in execution.
The workshop seeks contributions in two key areas. The first is
focused on applications of planning in execution dealing with
architectural or modeling choices to deal with the dynamic real-world
environment. Papers should indicate how the system impacts all stages
of application development and deployment. Contributions in this area
should elaborate on the rationale underpinning the design and the
performance of the resulting system in the field. The second key area
is focused on theoretical and empirical results for specific automated
planning techniques for on-line use in dynamic and uncertain
environments. Contributions in this area should address how and why
the methods described might be incor****ated into a larger application
context.
Scope
The scope of the workshop includes (but not limited to) the
following :
* Planning and Execution in Agent architectures
* Plan representation and the impact to solving real-world
problems
* Semantics of plan execution and their impact to dealing with
uncertainty (tem****al, spatial and geometric)
* Decision-theoretic approaches to mission planning and execution
* Bounded (time and space) search techniques which deal with
environmental uncertainty for plan execution
* Machine Learning for adaptive event-response
* Planning and Execution in unstructured, unknown or hostile
conditions.
Format of the workshop
The workshop will span a full day and include a poster session, an
invited talk and wrap up with a panel discussion.
Paper Submission
Submissions may be regular papers (at most 6 pages) in PDF formal
only. All papers should conform to the AAAI style template.
Submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees. All submissions
should be sent to icaps07-planexec@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the subject line
ICAPS'07 Workshop Submission.
All workshop participants will need to be registered while at least
one of the authors of accepted paper will need to be registered for
ICAPS'07.
Im****tant Dates
Paper submission deadline 15 June 2007
Notification of acceptance 13 July 2007
Camera-ready version deadline 27 July 2007
Workshop date 22 September 2007
Organization
Mark Boddy Adventium Labs, Minnesota, USA
F=E9lix Ingrand LAAS, Toulouse, France (Co-Chair)
Conor McGann MBARI, California
Paul Morris NASA Ames, California, USA
Nicola Muscettola Lockheed Martin, California, USA
David Musliner Honeywell, Minnesota, USA
Fr=E9d=E9ric Py MBARI, California, USA
Kanna Rajan MBARI, California, USA (Co-Chair)
Radu Bogdan Rusu TUM, Munich Germany
Reid Simmons CMU, Pittsburgh, USA
David Wettergreen CMU, Pittsburgh, USA
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