** CALL FOR PAPERS ** 6th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob‚ 2018) http://icaps18.icaps-conference.org/planrob/ ICAPS 2018 Workshop Delft, The Netherlands June 25 or June 26, 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Topics and Objectives *************** AI Planning & Scheduling (P&S) methods are crucial to enable intelligent robots to perform autonomous, flexible, and interactive behaviors, but a deep integration into robotic architectures is needed for their effective deployment. This requires a close collaboration between researchers from both the AI and the Robotics communities. In this direction, this workshop aims at constituting a stable, long-term forum where researchers from the P&S and the Robotics communities can openly discuss about research progress, future directions and open challenges related to P&S when applied to Robotics. The PlanRob workshop is proposed in synergy with the ICAPS Robotics track. We are in contact with the Robotics Track organizers trying to explore different ways to synchronize with them. The PlanRob WS aims to maintain a more informal forum where also more preliminary/visionary works can be discussed stimulating direct and open interactions. Topics of interest include but not limited to the following: - planning domain representations for robotics applications; - mission, path, and motion planning for robots; - integrated planning and execution in robotic architectures; - planning and coordination methods for multi-robot teams; - mixed-initiative planning and sliding autonomy for robotic systems; - human-aware planning and execution in human-robot interaction; - adversarial action planning in competitive robotic domains; - formal methods for robot planning and control; - P&S methods for optimization and adaptation in robotics; - benchmark planning domains for robots; - optimizing behavior in large scale automated or semi-automated systems; - real-world planning applications for autonomous and intelligent robots. Important Dates *************** Paper submission: March 20, 2018 Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2018 Camera-ready version due: May 25, 2018 Workshop Date: June 25 or June 26, 2018 Submissions *************** There are two types of submissions: short position statements and regular papers. Position papers are a maximum of 4 (four) pages. Regular papers are a maximum of 10 (ten) pages. All papers should be typeset in the AAAI style, described at:http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php removing AAAI copyright. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop website and printed as a hard-copy. The papers must be submitted in a PDF format via EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=planrob2018). The organizers will investigate the availability of journal editors in order to invite higher quality papers from the PlanRob 2018 edition to a special issue or post-proceedings volume. Organization Chairs ******************* Alberto Finzi, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy [log in to unmask] Erez Karpas Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel [log in to unmask] Goldie Nejat The University of Toronto, Canada. [log in to unmask] Andre Orlandini Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Italy [log in to unmask] Siddharth Srivastava, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA. [log in to unmask] -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- AndreA Orlandini PhD National Research Council of Italy Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology Phone: +39-06-44595-223 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Fax: +39-06-44595-243 Url: http://www.istc.cnr.it/group/pst --------------------------------------------------------------------- Me, the one and only person that never leaves me alone!