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LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS)
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-----An International Workshop to be co-located with ICAPS'08
-----Selected papers for the Journal to be published in a
-----Special Issues of the Knowledge Engineering Review
Sydney, Australia
September 14 or 15, 2008
http://kti.mff.cuni.cz/~bartak/KEPS2008/
Despite the progress in automated planning and scheduling systems,
these systems still need to be fed by problem description and
they need to be fine tuned for particular domains or problems.
Knowledge engineering for AI planning and scheduling deals with
the acquisition, validation and maintenance of domain models, and
the selection and optimization of appropriate machinery to work
on them. The importance of knowledge engineering techniques is
clearly demonstrated by a performance gap between domain-
independent planners and planners exploiting domain dependent
knowledge.
The workshop shall continue a short tradition of KEPS
competitions, however rather than focusing on software tools only,
we would like to cover all aspects of knowledge engineering for
AI planning and scheduling.
Submissions may be regular papers of up to 8 pages or short position
papers (at most 2 pages). All papers should conform to the AAAI style
template (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/macros-link.html).
Submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees. Interested
contributors are invited to communicate their intent to submit to the
workshop organizers.
Submissions, in PDF format only, should be sent by email to workshop
organizers at keps08 (at) ktiml.mff.cuni.cz using the subject line
"KEPS2008 Submission". Workshop participants should be registered
for ICAPS'08 or a co-located conference.
Important Dates:
Deadline for papers: June 18, 2008
Notification of acceptance: July 11, 2008
Final revisions: July 25, 2008
Workshop date: September 14-15, 2008 (to be confirmed)
Organizers:
Roman Barták
Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Malostranské nám. 2/25, 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
roman.bartak (nospam) at mff.cuni.cz
Lee McCluskey
University of Huddersfield, School of Computing and Engineering,
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 3DH, United Kingdom
t.l.mccluskey (nospam) at hud.ac.uk
Program Committee
* Roman Barták, Charles University, Czech Republic (co-chair)
* Mark Boddy, Adventium Labs, U.S.A.
* Luis Castillo, University of Granada, Spain
* Amedeo Cesta, ISTC, Italy
* Susana Fernández, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
* Peter A. Jarvis, NASA, U.S.A.
* John Levine, University of Strathclyde, UK
* Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom (co-chair)
* Dimitris Vrakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
