[PlanetKR] CFP: AAAI-2011 Workshop on Generalized Planning

[Siddharth Srivastava]

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http://rbr.cs.umass.edu/GenPlan11/
AAAI 2011 <http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai11.php> Workshop on
Generalized Planning <http://rbr.cs.umass.edu/GenPlan11/>
August 7th or 8th, San Francisco, USA

Call for Papers

Overview
 The goal of this workshop is to explore ways of increasing the scope and
scalability of automated planning by constructing and utilizing plans with
rich representations and control structures. We plan to bring together
researchers interested in new action and plan representations, as well as in
synthesis, learning and analysis of plans. GenPlan11 follows the very
successful GenPlan09
workshop<http://www.cs.umass.edu/%7Esiddhart/genplan09/>that was held
in conjunction with ICAPS in 2009.

 An additional objective of this workshop is to foster a greater exchange of
ideas between the many distinct yet related subfields of AI that these
problems are connected with, including knowledge representation,
abstraction, learning, inductive logic programming, hierarchical decision
making paradigms such as partial policies and HTNs, program synthesis,
automated service composition, as well as model checking in AI, in addition
to the various forms of automated planning.

Some of the fundamental questions motivating this workshop are:

   - How can we effectively find, represent and utilize high-level knowledge
   about planning domains?
   - What separates planning problems from program synthesis and composition
   problems?
   - What are the computational limits to the feasibility of these problems?

   - How can advances in model checking and abstraction techniques be
   utilized towards solving these problems?


Topics Potential topics include but are not limited to:

   - generating plans with loops
   - generating parameterized plans
   - instantiating parameterized plans
   - evaluation of generalized plans
   - learning macro actions
   - reasoning and planning with complex actions
   - learning and planning with domain control knowledge
   - learning and planning with partial policies
   - automated service composition
   - plan verification
   - model checking and abstraction for planning
   - generating robust or partial schedules


 Workshop Format
The workshop program will include technical presentations, discussion
session(s), and a poster session, depending on the participation.
We will also have invited talks by three prominent researchers: *Alessandro
Cimatti*, *Hector Levesque* and *Stuart Russell*.

Further details will be posted with the workshop
program<http://rbr.cs.umass.edu/GenPlan11/>
.

 Paper Format and Submission
We invite technical papers (up to 8 pages), extended abstract*s* (up to 2
pages) and papers with clear formulations of open problems and potential
approaches (up to 4 pages). We invite submissions including works in
progress and mature work that may have been published at other research
venues. Submission of previously published work may be in the form of a
resubmission of a previous paper, or a position/survey paper that overviews
and cites a body of work.

 Paper submissions should be in PDF format and typeset in the AAAI
style<http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php>.


Paper submissions and queries should be emailed to Siddharth
Srivastava<siddharth at cs.umass.edu>with "GenPlan11" in the subject.

 Please note that if accepted, at least one of the authors will have to
register and attend the workshop. AAAI-11 student volunteers will be given
complimentary technical registrations.

Important Dates  Paper Submission Deadline
 April 22, 2011
  Author Notification
 May 13, 2011
  Final Version
 May 27/June1, 2011
  Workshop Date
 August 7/8, 2011

Program Committee Eyal Amir <http://reason.cs.uiuc.edu/eyal/>, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jorge Baier <http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Ejabaier/>, Catholic University of
Chile, Chile
 Chitta Baral <http://www.public.asu.edu/%7Ecbaral/>, Arizona State
University, USA
Adi Botea <http://abotea.rsise.anu.edu.au/>, NICTA and Australian National
University, Australia
Amanda Coles <http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/%7Eamanda/>, University of
Strathclyde, UK
Christian Fritz <http://www2.parc.com/isl/members/cfritz>, Palo Alto
Research Center, USA
Hector Geffner <http://www.tecn.upf.es/%7Ehgeffner/>, ICREA, Spain
Robert Goldman <http://rpgoldman.real-time.com/>, SIFT, USA
Subbarao Kambhampati <http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/>, Arizona State
University, USA
Roni Khardon <http://www.cs.tufts.edu/%7Eroni/>, Tufts University, USA
Gerhard Lakemeyer <http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/%7Egerhard/>, Aachen
University of Technology, Germany
Karen Myers <http://www.ai.sri.com/%7Emyers/>, SRI International, USA
Bernhard Nebel <http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/%7Enebel/>, University
of Freiburg, Germany
Sebastian Sardina <http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Essardina/home.shtml>,
RMIT University, Australia
Manuela Veloso <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Emmv/>, Carnegie Mellon University,
USA

Organizing CommitteeSheila McIlraith <http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Esheila/>,
University of Toronto, Canada
Siddharth Srivastava <http://www.cs.umass.edu/%7Esiddhart/> (Chair),
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Paolo Traverso <http://cit.fbk.eu/traverso/>, FBK, Center for Information
Technology - IRST, Italy
Shlomo Zilberstein <http://rbr.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshlomo/>, University of
Massachusetts Amherst, USA
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