Paper Submission Deadline: Feb 15, 2002
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. The areas of interest include but are not limited to:
- Supply Chain Management Applications
- Real time Robot Planning
- Real time Multiagent and Multirobot Planning
- Travel Planning
- Planning for Information Gathering and Database Queries
- Planning and Data Mining
- Financial planning
- Urban planning
- Planning in Software Engineering and Workflow Management
In each of these applications, we wish to make clear the nature of the problem, the issues of interest to planning researchers, exposition of applications domains, and criteria of success. Issues of interest include but are not limited to:
- Planning and execution
- Plan management
- Deliberative and reactive planning
- Plan recognition
- Plan quality
- Planning and resource allocations
- Planning and learning
Researchers wishing to participate in the workshop may submit either full-length papers (of at most 8 pages) or 1-2 page position papers in AAAI conference format, using the AAAI macros and templates and the AAAI instructions. Work being submitted to the AIPS conference can also be submitted to the workshop. Electronic submissions are highly preferred, either in postscript or PDF format.Please forward submissions to Qiang Yang (qyang@cs.ust.hk). The deadlines are:
Submission: Feb 15, 2002
Notification: March 15, 2002
Final copy: March 22, 2002
Hard copy submissions to one of the co-chairs are also accepted if emails are not convenient.
Organizing Committee:
Manuela Veloso (co-chair, CMU) Manuela_Veloso@school.coral.cs.cmu.edu
Qiang Yang (co-chair, HKUST Hong Kong) qyang@cs.ust.hk
Richard Goodwin (IBM) rgoodwin@us.ibm.com
Craig Knoblock (ISI/USC) knoblock@isi.edu
Sven Koenig (Georgia Institute of Technology) skoenig@cc.gatech.edu
Bernhard Nebel (Institut für Informatik, Germany) nebel@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Wei Zhang (Boeing) wei.zhang@pss.Boeing.com