Deadline extension until March 22
********* Evolutionary Methods for AI Planning (EvoPlan) *********
a Bird-of-a-feather Workshop at the
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
http://www.genetic-algorithm.org/GECCO2000/gecco2000mainpage.htm
July 8, 2000
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Workshop Topics
Planning has been a vital area of artificial intelligence (AI) for several
years. A central problem of AI-planning is to chose the right actions
to take for achieving certain goals. Many heuristics and tools for planning
have been developed in recent years. But only a few of them so far use
evolutionary algorithms (EAs). The goal of the workshop is to get
together researchers interested in the subject, discuss applications
of evolutionary methods in AI-planning and identify promising research
directions. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
EAs for generating plans
- Construction of planners with EAs
- Decomposition of planning problems by EAs
- Plan merging with EAs
- Handling of multiple goals with EAs
- EAs for planing under ressource constraints
- Probability distribution based evolutionary methods for planning
While many efforts have been taken successfully in recent years to solve
various scheduling problems with evolutionary methods, the related
field of planning has been much less studied. It seems very promising
to apply genetic programming, for example, for the construction of planners
and to use various evolutionary techniques for finding good plans. New
evolutionary approaches like ant algorithms or bayesian optimization
algorithms are also interesting candiates for solving planning problems.
Participation
The workshop will consist of 15-minute presentations. Every talk will be
followed by a short discussion.
Prospective authors are invited to send an extended abstract of approximately
3 pages to the workshop chair. Email submissions are encouraged
(postscript only). For formatting instructions see the GECCO-2000 webpage.
Accepted papers will be published in a supplement to the proceedings
available at the conference.
Important Dates
* Extended abstract due: 22th March 2000
* Notification: 25th March 2000
* Camera-ready papers due: 15th April 2000
* Workshop: 8th July 2000
Workshop Chair
Martin Middendorf
Institute AIFB,
University of Karlsruhe,
D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
phone: ++49 (721) 608-3705<BR>
fax: ++49 (721) 693717<BR>
email: [log in to unmask]
If you have any questions or suggestions concerning the workshop
please contact the workshop chair.
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