[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ********************** 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ The 21st workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group will be held November 21-22, 2002, at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. AIM 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. To encourage links with industry, the workshop includes a PLANET-sponsored gap-filling seminar (GBS-2). In addition, PLANET and SIKS are sponsoring attendance for post-graduate students. In recent years the SIG has attracted an international gathering. We continue to welcome contributions from around the world. For its coming-of-age the workshop will be held outside Britain for the first time. SCOPE Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): applications; architectures; environmental and task models; formal models; intelligent agents; learning; memory-based approaches; reactive systems; robotics; constraint-based planning/scheduling and control techniques; co-ordination issues in decentralised/distributed planning/scheduling; iterative improvement techniques for combinatorial optimisation; Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research. SUBMISSIONS Format of submissions: Full papers: (approx. 5000 words). These should report work in progress or completed work. Authors of full papers that are accepted by the Programme Committee will be invited to give a talk on the paper. Short papers: (2 pages) These should report views or ambitions, or describe problems. The author(s) will be able to discuss the paper informally with others at the workshop and will be invited to give a short presentation on their work. All papers and presentations should be in English. Possible methods of submission: Hard copy: three hard copies of papers should reach the Programme Chair by 4th October 2002. Electronic (preferred): papers can be submitted via e-mail or made available on the Web. In either case, documents should be in gzipped postscript or PDF format and be named "author.ps.gz" or "author.pdf.gz", using the name of the first author. An e-mail message containing either the file or its URL (e.g. http://..../author.ps.gz) should reach the Programme Chair by the 4th October 2002. 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. However, accommodation will be limited to 40-50 people. REGISTRATION The deadline for registration is 10th November 2002. Further details are at http://www.pds.twi.tudelft.nl/activities/PLANSIG2002/intro.htm PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ruth Aylett, Salford University Edmund Burke, Nottingham University Roberto Desimone, QinetiQ Ltd Brian Drabble, University of Oregon Janet Efstathiou, University of Oxford Maria Fox, Durham University Max Garagnani, The Open University Tim Grant, Atos Origin Nederland b.v. & University of Pretoria Han Hoogeveen, University of Utrecht Peter Jarvis, SRI International John Levine, University of Edinburgh Derek Long, Durham University Lee McCluskey, Huddersfield University Nico Roos, University of Maastricht & SIKS Sam Steel, Essex University Steef van de Velde Erasmus University Cees Witteveen, Delft University of Technology Gerhard Woeginger, Twente University of Technology Chairs Co-chair (workshop programme, GBS-2 & PLANET sponsoring) Tim Grant, University of Pretoria, South Africa Submissions and inquiries about papers should be sent to the Programme Chair at the following address: Tim Grant, Atos Origin Nederland B.V. P.O. Box 1444 NL-3430 BK Nieuwegein The Netherlands Tel: +31 (0)30 608 88 88 Fax: +31 (0)30 606 77 72 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Co-chair (local organisation & SIKS sponsoring) Cees Witteveen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Inquiries about the local organisation should be sent to the Local Organiser at the following address: Cees Witteveen Dept of Information Technology and Systems Delft University of Technology Mekelweg 4, NL 2628 CD Delft The Netherlands Tel: +31 (0)15 278 2521/7486 Fax: +31 (0)15 278 6632 E-mail: [log in to unmask] IMPORTANT DATES *** Deadline for submissions: 4 October 2002 *** Notification of acceptance: 4 November 2002 Final copy of papers due: 8 November 2002 Deadline for registration: 10 November 2002 PLANSIG 2002: 21-22 November 2002 ***********************************************************************