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The 25th Workshop of the UK PLANNING AND SCHEDULING Special Interest Group
... is visiting Nottingham, and will be hosted by:
University of Nottingham, Nottingham
December 14-15, 2006
**** http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~rxq/PlanSIG/PlanSIG06.htm ****
The workshop is a yearly forum where academics, industrialists and
research students can meet and discuss current issues in an informal
setting. We especially aim to bring together researchers attacking
different aspects of planning and scheduling problems, and to introduce
new researchers to the community. In recent years the SIG has attracted
an international gathering, and we continue to welcome contributions
from around the world.
REGISTRATION
Registration Deadline: Fri 1, December 2006
PROGRAM
Program schedule will be available soon. A list of accepted papers is
available at http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~rxq/PlanSIG/program.htm
SCOPE
Algorithms: novel planning and scheduling algorithms.
Applications: empirical studies of existing planning/scheduling systems;
domain-specific techniques; heuristic techniques; user interfaces for
planning and scheduling; evaluation metrics for plans/schedules;
verification and validation of plans/schedules.
Architectures: real-time support for planning/scheduling/control;
mixed-initiative planning and user interfaces; integration of planning
and scheduling; integration of planning/scheduling and Fault Detection
Isolation and Recovery (FDIR); planning and scheduling in autonomous
systems.
Environmental and task models: analyses of the dynamics of environments,
tasks, and domains with regard to different models of planning and
execution; verification and validation of domain models.
Formal Models: reasoning about knowledge, action, and time;
representations and ontologies for planning and scheduling; search
methods and analysis of algorithms; formal characterisation of existing
planners and schedulers.
Intelligent Agency: resource-bounded reasoning; distributed problem
solving; integrating reaction and deliberation.
Learning: learning in the context of planning and execution; learning
new plans and operators; learning in the context of scheduling and
schedule maintenance.
Memory Based Approaches: case-based planning/scheduling; plan and
operator learning and reuse; incremental planning.
Reactive Systems: environmentally driven devices/behaviours; reactive
control; behaviours in the context of minimal representations; schedule
maintenance.
Robotics: Motion and path planning; planning and control; planning and
perception, integration of planning and perceptual systems.
Constraint-based Planning/Scheduling and Control Techniques:
constraint/preference propagation techniques, variable/value ordering
heuristics, intelligent backtracking/RMS-based techniques, iterative
repair heuristics, etc.
Co-ordination Issues in Decentralised/Distributed planning/scheduling:
co-ordination issues in both homogeneous and heterogeneous systems,
system architecture issues, integration of strategic and tactical
decision making; collaborative planning/scheduling.
Iterative Improvement Techniques for Combinatorial Optimisation: genetic
algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, neural nets, etc applied
to scheduling and/or planning.
Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research: comparative studies and
innovative applications combining AI and OR techniques applied to
scheduling and/or planning.
Planning/scheduling under uncertainty: coping with uncertain,
ill-specified or changing domains, environments and problems;
application of uncertainty reasoning techniques to planning/scheduling,
including MDPs, POMDPs, Belief Networks, stochastic programming, and
stochastic satisfiability.
All submissions will be reviewed by two referees, and successful
submissions will appear in the Workshop Proceedings (ISSN 1368-5708).
Accepted papers will also be made available via the SIG web-site.
ATTENDANCE
Anyone with an interest in Planning and Scheduling is welcome - it is
not necessary to submit a paper in order to attend.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Uwe Aickelin, University of Nottingham
Ruth Aylett, Herriot-Watt
Chris Beck, University of Toronto
Jacek Blazewicz, Poznan University of Technology
Ken Brown, University College Cork
Peter Brucker, Universitt Osnabrck
Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham
Alex Coddington, University of Strathclyde
Maria Fox, University of Strathclyde
Jon Garibaldi, University of Nottingham
Tao Gong, City University, London
Tim Grant, University of Pretoria
Peter Jarvis, NASA Ames Research Center
Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham
Raymond Kwan, University of Leeds
Dario Landa-Silva, University of Nottingham
John Levine, University of Strathclyde
Derek Long, University of Strathclyde
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield
Amnon Meisels, Ben-Gurion University
Barry McCollum, Queen's University Belfast
Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham
Sanja Petrovic, University of Nottingham
Julie Porteous, University of Strathclyde
Patrick Prosser, University of Glasgow
Rong Qu, University of Nottingham
Sam Steel, University of Essex
Andrew Tuson, City University, London
PROGRAMME CHAIR:
Submissions and enquiries should be sent to the Programme Chair:
Rong Qu
Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning (ASAP) Group
School of Computer Science and Information Technology
Jubilee Campus
University of Nottingham
Wollaton Road
Nottingham NG8 1BB
England
Tel: +44 (0)115 8466503
Fax: +44 (0)115 8467591
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Web: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~rxq/
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