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From: hertz@gmdzi.gmd.de (Joachim Hertzberg)
To: mod-ki@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 91 13:55:33 -0200
Subject: <mod-ki 0740> Call for Papers AIPS
Keywords: Conferences, Planning

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       The First International Conference on AI Planning Systems
                       College Park, Maryland
                          June 15-19, 1992

                          CALL FOR PAPERS

Much attention in AI has been given to the "planning problem" - that is,
designing computational systems that can automatically generate,  debug,
or optimize plans of action for  one  or  more  agents.  Planning  as  a
subdiscipline of AI has been around for almost  thirty  years,  but  has
recently experienced rapid growth. The primary forums for discussion  of
issues in the field have been  the  National  Conference  on  Artificial
Intelligence, and a series of DARPA Workshops on  Planning,  Scheduling,
and Control. This series has been increasingly successful in stimulating
high-quality work. There are now interesting  practical  algorithms  for
achieving efficiency in planning (some domain-dependent, some  heuristic
and general). There are formal results on the completeness  of  planning
algorithms in simple  domains.  We  are  seeing  the  beginning  of  the
integration of planning theory  with  robot  programming.  The  time  is
clearly ripe for the evolution of a full-fledged conference  devoted  to
planning.

The conference will be aimed at bringing together researchers  attacking
different aspects  of  the  planning  problem  and  related  issues.  In
addition to AI researchers, others working  on  planning-related  issues
are also encouraged to attend. Of special interest are papers discussing
the integration of differing approaches to planning or  the  integration
of planning and other AI technologies.

TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE

   APPLICATIONS 
      Empirical studies of existing planning systems
      Domain-specific techniques
      Heuristic techniques
      Scheduling Systems
   ARCHITECTURES 
      Real-time support for planning and control 
      Mixed-initiative planning and user interfaces 
   FORMAL MODELS 
      Reasoning about knowledge, action, and time
      Search methods and analysis of algorithms 
      Formal characterization of existing planning systems 
   INTELLIGENT AGENCY 
      Resource-bounded reasoning 
      Distributed problem solving
      Integrating reaction and deliberation
   MEMORY-BASED APPROACHES 
      Case-based planning
      Plan and operator learning and reuse
	     Incremental Planning
   PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ISSUES
      Analyses of Complex goal-directed behavior
      Neurophysiological studies concerning planning 
    	Connectionist planning systems
   ROBOTICS
      Motion and path planning 
      Active perception and sensor-based planning 

TIMETABLE:
The conference will take place at the University of Maryland in  College
Park, Maryland, from  ................................ June 15-19, 1992.
Papers due ........................................... Dec.  13  , 1991.
Notification of acceptance/rejection ................. Feb.  18  , 1992.
Camera Ready Copy .................................... March  7  , 1992.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION:
Appearance: Papers should be submitted on 8.5"x11"  (or,  if  necessary,
A4) paper, with 12pt. type. Letter quality print is required. (Normally,
dot-matrix printout will be unacceptable unless  truly  letter  quality.
Exceptions will be made for countries where high  quality  printers  are
not widely available.) LaTeX 12pt  article  style  will  be  acceptable.

Title-Page: Each copy of the paper must include a title  page,  separate
from the body of the paper. This should contain  (i) Title,  (ii) Names,
addresses and phone numbers ad  email  addresses  of  all  authors,  and
(iii) an abstract of 100-200 words.

Length: Papers should be in 12pt  text  filling  roughly  5.5"x7.5"  per
page. Papers should be no more that 12 pages including figures,  tables,
and diagrams (but not references). Short papers (5 pages or less) may be
submitted for review as posters.  

Submission: Send 5 copies of papers to:

   AIPS-92
   University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
   University of Maryland
   College Park, MD 20742
   USA

For more information contact:

CONFERENCE CHAIR:      Drew McDermott, Yale University
                          (mcdermott@cs.yale.edu) 

PROGRAM CHAIR:         James Hendler, University of Maryland
		                       (hendler@cs.umd.edu)

INTERNATIONAL CHAIR:   W. Hillier, IEE, UK

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: P. Agre, UC San Diego; J.Allen, Rochester University;
P. Bonasso, MITRE Corp.;  T. Dean, Brown University;  M. Drummond,  Nasa
Ames Research Center; M. Georgeff, Australian AI Institute; M. Ginsberg,
Stanford University; J. Hertzberg, GMD, Germany; K. Hammond,  University
of Chicago;  S. Kambhampati, Arizona State Univ.;  A. Lansky, Nasa  Ames
Research Center; D. Nau, University of Maryland;  M. Pollack, University
of  Pittsburgh;   R.  Simmons,  Carnegie-Mellon  University;   S. Steel,
University of Essex, UK; K. Sycara, Carnegie-Mellon University; A. Tate,
AIAI,  Edinburgh University, UK;  M. Zweben,  Nasa Ames Research Center.
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