[PlanetKR] ICAPS 2011 System Demonstrations and Exhibits -- Final call for Participation

[Malte Helmert]

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This call is available online here:
http://icaps11.icaps-conference.org/demos/cfp.html

A PDF version is available here:
http://icaps11.icaps-conference.org/demos/call-for-demonstrations.pdf

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                            ICAPS 2011
  21st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
                  Freiburg, Germany - 11-16 June 2011
                  http://icaps11.icaps-conference.org/

                  SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITS

                       Call for Participation
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ICAPS 2011 Demonstrations and Exhibits
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The Demonstrations and Exhibits programme at ICAPS 2011 provides an
opportunity for planning and scheduling researchers and practitioners to
demonstrate their state-of-the-art implementations in action. This event
allows the community to experience the latest contributions while
broadening the reach of novel methods to more conference attendees, and
in a relaxed social setting.

Researchers and practitioners from all sub-areas of AI planning and
scheduling are encouraged to submit proposals to demonstrate their
systems.  Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their novelty
and scientific or industrial contributions, relevance to the conference
theme, user-friendliness, and presentation.  We encourage submissions
demonstrating new and innovative techniques for planning and scheduling,
as well as submissions from mature, commercial and/or deployed systems,
and systems in development.

Recognition of the Demonstrations and Exhibits is anticipated by an
award for Best System Demonstration.


Submission of Proposals
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Potential exhibitors are invited to submit the following items by email
to the Demonstrations and Exhibits co-chairs, by April 1st, 2011:

(1) An extended abstract of 2-4 pages in AAAI format. This must include
    the title of the proposed demonstration, the list of authors and
    their affilitation(s), and an abstract of up to 250 words, and must
    describe the technical content of the demonstration, with the
    appropriate credits and references.

(2) A storyboard describing the proposed demonstration. This may be
    submitted as a PDF document of not more than six pages in AAAI
    format, or as a URL link to a video (in MPEG, Quicktime or Flash
    format). The storyboard will be the primary evaluation of the
    suitability and merit of the proposed demonstration.

(3) A description of any non-standard hardware/software requirement
    and/or logistic arrangements.

The extended abstracts of accepted demonstrations will be available to
conference participants and will be archived on the conference web site.

In addition to direct submission of demonstrations and exhibits,
submissions made to the ICAPS technical paper tracks will have the
option to indicate that the submission can be considered for suitability
for the conference Demonstrations and Exhibits. Accepted technical
papers with this indication will be fast-tracked to the System
Demonstrations and Exhibits, and their author(s) will not need to
provide an extended abstract.


Important Dates
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1 April 2011    - Proposals of demonstrations and exhibits
22 April 2011   - Notification of acceptance
20 May 2011     - Camera ready extended abstracts and final
                  hardware/software requirements.
11-16 June 2011 - ICAPS 2011 conference


ICAPS 2011 Demonstrations and Exhibits co-chairs
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* Piergiorgio Bertoli (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
  bertoli AT fbk DOT eu
* Minh Do (Palo Alto Research Center, United States)
  Minh DOT Do AT parc DOT com