[PlanetKR] CFP Second edition of the PLanning And onTology wOrkshop (PLATO)

Thu Mar 20 11:49:52 UTC 2025

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The second edition of the PLanning And onTology wOrkshop (PLATO)

https://plato2025.istc.cnr.it <https://plato2025.istc.cnr.it/>

Important Dates:

Paper submission:

Paper submission deadline: 1 June 2025

Paper author notification: 14 July 2025

Camera-ready: 1 September 2025

Workshop dates: either September 8 or September 9, 2025 (to be confirmed)

Conference dates: 8-9 September 2025

Contact: plato2025 at easychair.org

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Dear colleagues,

The second edition of the PLanning And onTology wOrkshop (PLATO) will be 
held in the context of the Joint Ontology Workshops Episode XI: The 
Sicilian Summer under the Etna (JOWO 2025), in conjunction with the 15th 
International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems(FOIS 
2025), 8-12 September 2025, *Catania, Italy.*

Aim

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Automated Planning and Ontology are two well-established fields of 
Artificial Intelligence (AI). The former investigates techniques to 
formally model and reason about the effects of actions, and decide the 
combinations of actions that allow an agent to achieve goals. The latter 
investigates techniques to formally define knowledge (by formally 
describing domain entities and their interrelations), allowing agents to 
process information about objects, and events, and incrementally build 
and verify beliefs. Both Automated Planning and Ontology generally rely 
on logic to model knowledge and organize reasoning mechanisms. They 
support the development of cognitive capabilities that autonomous agents 
need to effectively act in the real world. In this context, the PLanning 
And onTology wOrkshop (PLATO) aims at bringing together researchers in 
these two fields of AI to address new research challenges, share their 
experiences, and learn from each other. The workshop aims at 
investigating the synergetic contributions of technologies and methods 
from these two fields. There are examples in the literature that have 
investigated the use of Ontology to generate planning models, find 
effective plans, and contextualize plans and action execution to domain 
features.

Important Dates

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Paper Submission:June 1, 2025

Paper Notification: July 14, 2025

Camera-ready:September 1, 2025

Workshop date: September 8 or 9, 2025 (TBD)

Conference date:September 8-9, 2025

Topics of interest

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The workshop is open to both application and theoretical contributions 
that see the integration of ontology and planning as a mechanism to 
enhance the efficacy of AI-based solutions. Here is a list of (some) 
topics:

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    Ontological analysis of concepts related to planning/scheduling
    (e.g., capability, capacity, action, etc)

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    Domain ontologies supporting tasks related to planning/scheduling

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    Reuse of foundational ontologies (e.g., DOLCE, BFO, UFO) in order to
    strive the interoperability among multiple ontologies, among other
    goals

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    Semantic Web ontologies and technologies for reasoning, (FAIR) data
    management, interoperability, etc

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    Ontologies supporting the interoperability of heterogeneous planning
    frameworks

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    Ontologies supporting Plan and Schedule Execution

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    Plan Recognition, plan management, and goal reasoning

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    Partially observable and unobservable domains

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    Knowledge acquisition and engineering for planning and scheduling

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    Situation assessment for contextualized planning decisions

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    Explainability of plans and planning models

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    Trustworthy, safety, and ethics in planning

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    Benchmarking and evaluation metrics of plans and plan-based controllers

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    Out-of-the-box research challenges at the intersection between
    Automated Planning and Ontology

Submissions

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We welcome two categories of paper submission:

Short papers - 6 pages(including references, see template information 
below). These should describe concrete problems, open issues concerning 
planning and ontology, or methodologies/approaches pointing out the 
added values of the integration between planning and ontology.

Full papers- 13 pages(including references). These should report 
work-in-progress, novel designed technologies or systems relying on the 
integration of panning and ontology.

Submissions should be made in PDF through EasyChairfollowing the link 
(select track Planning and Ontology Workshop-PLATO)

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2025 
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2025>

Authors of accepted short and full papers will give a talk about their 
work during the workshop. Accepted papers will be published with CEUR-WS 
proceedings, under the IAOA series (https://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html).

Papers should be formatted according to CEUR-WS style. From 2022 
onwards, CEUR-WS requires that authors use the new CEUR-ART stylefor 
writing papers. An Overleaf templatefor LaTeX usersis available at the 
link https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt 
<https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt>.

It is also possible to download an offline version with the style files 
from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip 
<http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip>. Find out more information on 
the CEUR-WS website: http://ceur-ws.org/index.html 
<http://ceur-ws.org/index.html>

Program Committee (to be extended)

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    Luca Biccheri, CNR - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies

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    Stefano Borgo, CNR - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies

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    Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

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    Bastien Dussard, CNRS - Laboratoire de recherche spécialisé dans
    l’analyse et l’architecture des systèmes

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    Antonio Lieto, University of Salerno

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    Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, University of Genova

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    Alberto Olivares-Alarcos, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya –
    Institut de Robotica i Informatica Industrial

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    Andrea Orlandini, CNR - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies

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    Jan Rosell, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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    Uli Sattler, University of Manchester

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    Walter Terkaj, CNR - Institute of Intelligent Industrial
    Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing

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    Mauro Vallati, University of Huddersfield

Organization Committee

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Carmelo Fabio Longo

Institute for Cognitive Science and Technologies (ISTC)

National Research Council (CNR), Italy

Alessandro Umbrico

Institute for Cognitive Science and Technologies (ISTC)

National Research Council (CNR), Italy

Emilio M. Sanfilippo

Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC)

National Research Council (CNR),

Italy

Contact: plato2025 at easychair.org
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