We want to encourage members of the OR community involved in planning
and scheduling to submit to the International Conference on
Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS).  The committee seeks
increased involvement from the Operational Research community.

Programming Committee Members,

Michael Trick
Barry Richards
Mike Pinedo
Patrick Prosser

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  International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 2004
                              ICAPS 2004

                           Call for Papers
                     Call for Tutorial Proposals
                     Call for Workshop Proposals
                    Call for System Demonstrations
          Call for Participation in the Doctoral Consortium
   Call for Participation in the International Planning Competition

                            June 3-7, 2004
                  Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

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                 http://icaps04.icaps-conference.org
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ICAPS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners in
automated planning and scheduling. In addition to a technical track,
the conference includes tutorials, workshops, a doctoral consortium, a
planning competition and demonstrations of planning systems. The
conference seeks papers on all research areas related to planning and
scheduling.  Conference topics include planning and scheduling theory,
algorithms, and applications to areas such as manufacturing, space
systems, disaster relief, software engineering, robotics, logistics,
education, crisis response, and entertainment.

This year, ICAPS especially welcomes submissions on methodologies that
are important for planning and scheduling (for example, graph search
and Markov decision processes) and from research communities that have
been under-represented at ICAPS in the past.

Paper submissions are solicited on all aspects of planning and
scheduling, including but not limited to:

- anytime planning and scheduling
- applications of planning and scheduling
- architectures for intelligent agents
- case-based planning
- constraint reasoning for planning and scheduling
- decision-theoretic planning and scheduling
- deductive planning
- distributed and multi-agent planning and scheduling
- domain-independent classical planning
- domain analysis and knowledge acquisition for planning and scheduling
- dynamic scheduling
- heuristic search-based planning
- knowledge engineering techniques for planning and scheduling
- lessons learned from deployed systems
- logics and formal models for planning
- methodologies and tools for specification, design, implementation, or
    validation of planning systems
- mixed-initiative planning and scheduling
- model-theoretic approaches to planning
- philosophical foundations of action selection
- planning and complexity
- planning and execution
- planning and learning
- planning and perception
- planning and reasoning about actions
- planning and scheduling under uncertainty
- planning and scheduling with complex domain models
- planning and scheduling with complex objectives
- planning and user interaction
- planning with hierarchical task networks
- planning with resources
- planning, scheduling, and new information technology
- plan recognition
- plan validation and verification
- reactive planning
- real-time planning and scheduling
- re-planning
- robot planning
- scalability in planning and scheduling
- search
- software development tools for planning and scheduling

Papers will be thoroughly reviewed, should contain results which
advance the state of the art in planning and scheduling, either
through theoretical or experimental analysis, and will be judged
according to their scientific and technical merits. In previous
conferences, roughly 1/3 of the submitted papers have been
accepted. Submitted papers must be prepared according to the AAAI
style template and must be no more than eight (8) pages long,
including figures and bibliography. Paper submissions will be
electronic via the submissions link on the conference web
site. Authors of accepted papers must present their work at the
conference. We encourage authors of papers involving experimental
results to make their systems and data available on the web and
demonstrate their systems at the conference.

For more information, see the individual call for papers, call for
tutorial proposals, call for workshop proposals, call for systems
demonstrations, call for participation in the doctoral consortium and
call for participation in the international planning competition
(classical and probabilistic track) at

                 icaps04.icaps-conference.org

Important Dates:

Workshop Proposal Submissions:      Tuesday, September 16th, 2003
Tutorial Proposal Submissions:      Tuesday, September 30th, 2003
ICAPS PAPER SUBMISSIONS:            TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28TH, 2003
Planning Competition Registration:  Tuesday, January  27th, 2004
Doctoral Consortium Submissions:    Tuesday, March 2nd, 2004
Software Demonstration Submissions: Tuesday, March 9th, 2004

   Current Sponsors: AAAI, PLANET, NASA, Honeywell and NICTA

Conference Chairs:

Shlomo Zilberstein (shlomo @ cs.umass.edu)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst (USA)

Sven Koenig (skoenig @ cc.gatech.edu)
Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

Jana Koehler, (koe @ zurich.ibm.com)
IBM Zurich (Switzerland)