It is healthy for any scientific field to make critical
self-examinations periodically. A review of recent publications in
major conferences reveals that the majority of published work in
planning has been the efficient sequencing of operators in a
well-defined state-based world. The majority of this work assumes
that a planning system is given clear goal, operator and state
definitions in a logical form, and that the task to be accomplished
is to find sequences of operators to achieve these goals. While
significant progress has been made in this direction, a lack of
widespread applications of this model (as compared to, for example,
machine learning, data mining, and speech recognition) raises
questions of whether these assumptions actually hold in real world
applications, and if this direction of research is indeed highly
relevant to practical applications of planning. The heart of this
exploration is the question: what does real planning involve?
This
AIPS’02 workshop is
then devoted to the exploration of alternative views of planning. We
wish to organize the workshop to explore novel issues underlying
planning that are beyond operator sequencing. We will take a
bottom-up approach by welcoming contributions that start at
high-impact application areas that might not be considered as
planning traditionally. We will further encourage a backwards
analysis of the applications towards alternative views and
definitions for planning.
Here is the Workshop Call for Papers.
WORKSHOP PROGRAM:
9:00- 9:05 Opening
Remarks (Manuela Veloso and Qiang Yang)
9:05-10:00 Keynote
Speech: Multiagent planning
in real-time robotic domains. Manuela M. Veloso CMU
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 -12:35 Session I (Web
and Database Services) Chair: Qiang Yang
Session II (Business Applications) Chair:
Bernhard
Nebel
12:35 -14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Session III (Robotic Planning) Chair: Sven Koenig
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Session IV (Novel Formulations) Chair: Craig
Knoblock
- Invited Talk (25 min) Planning
for Intelligent User Interfaces Dan Weld,
University of Washington
- Panel II (35 min) Novel Planning Formulations for Web and Business
Applications. Panel Chair: Qiang Yang
18:00-18:05: Closing
Remarks
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