******************* CALL FOR PAPERS *****************
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.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: Fri 6, October 2006
Notification of Acceptance: Wed 1, November 2006
Camera Ready: Fri 24, November 2006
Registration Deadline: Fri 1, December 2006
PlanSIG Workshop: Thur 14 - Fri 15, December 2006
SCOPE
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
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.
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.
Papers can be submitted via e-mail (preferred) 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 6th
October 2006.
All submissions will be reviewed by two referees, and successful
submissions will appear in the Workshop Proceedings (ISSN
available soon). Accepted papers will also be made available via the SIG
web-site.
REGISTRATION
Anyone with an interest in Planning and Scheduling is welcome - it is
not necessary to submit a paper in order to attend. However,
participation will be limited to 50 people.
Registration fees are 115 per delegate. This includes the proceedings,
lunch and refreshements each day and one workshop
dinner on the 14th December. The deadline of registration is 1st December.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Full list to be confirmed, current members are:
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
Dario Landa-Silva, University of Nottingham
John Levine, University of Strathclyde
Derek Long, University of Strathclyde
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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