IPS 2019: 7th Italian Workshop on Planning and Scheduling Rende, Italy, November 19, 2019 |
Conference website | https://ips2019.istc.cnr.it |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ips2019 |
The 7th Italian Workshop on Planning and Scheduling (IPS 2019) will be hosted at the "Department of Matematics and Computer Science of University of Calabria", Italy, in occasion of the 18th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2019), November 19-22, 2019.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in different aspects of planning and scheduling problems, and to introduce new researchers to the community. Although the primary target of this series of workshops is the Italian community of P&S, the aim is to attract an international gathering, thus expecting contributions and partecipation form around the world
Applicants are expected to be conducting research in the field of Automated Planning & Scheduling; 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. Application examples of real-world problems are particularly welcomed.
- Architectures: Real-time support for planning/scheduling/control; mixed-initiative planning and user interfaces; integration of planning and scheduling; continuous planning systems; 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 characterization of existing planners and schedulers.
- Intelligent Agency: Resource-bounded reasoning; distributed problem solving; integrating reaction and deliberation.
- Knowledge engineering for planning: domain construction tools and techniques, knowledge elicitation, ontology development
- 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.
- Hybrid Systems: planning with mixed discrete-continuous domains; hybrid systems applications; novel benchmark problems involving hybrid dynamics; hybrid planning domain modelling; plan validation and execution.
- Constraint-based Planning/Scheduling and Control Techniques: Constraint/preference propagation techniques, variable/value ordering heuristics, intelligent backtracking/RMS-based techniques, iterative repair heuristics, etc.
- Coordination Issues in Decentralised/Distributed planning/scheduling: Coordination 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: Copying 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.
Important Dates
- Paper Submissions:
August 26thSeptember 21st 2019 - Notification to authors:
September 27thOctober 8th 2019 - Camera-ready copies due: October 21st 2019
- Workshop date: November 19th-22rd 2019
Submission Guidelines
Submissions to this event are here solicited. Each contribution will be reviewed by members of a strong international Programme Committee. We welcome two categories of paper submission:
- Full papers (max 8 pages). 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 (2-4 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 of their work.
Each paper has to be formatted according to AAAI style (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php).
Authors of already published papers must clearly indicate this information in their submission.
Paper submission will take place through the EasyChair web-site
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ips2019
The site is open for submission
Committees
Program Committee
- Marco Baioletti, University of Perugia, Italy
- Gabriella Cortellessa, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
- Giuseppe Della Penna, University of L’Aquila, Italy
- Simone Fratini, ESA, Germany
- Hector Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Enrico Giunchiglia, University of Genova, Italy
- Carlos Linares, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield, UK
- Fabio Mercorio, University of Milan “Bicocca”, Italy
- Roberto Micalizio, University of Torino, Italy
- Angelo Oddi, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
- Andrea Orlandini, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
- Nicola Policella, ESA, Germany
- Riccardo Rasconi, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
- Ioannis Refanidis, University of Macedonia, Greece
- Alessandro Saetti, University of Brescia, Italy
- Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy
- Ivan Serina, University of Brescia, Italy
- Mauro Vallati, University of Huddersfield, UK
- Kristen Brent Venable, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
Organizing committee
- Riccardo De Benedictis, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), National Research Council (CNR), Italy
- Andrea Micheli, Embedded Systems (ES) Department, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy
- Enrico Scala, Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Italy
- Alessandro Umbrico, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), National Research Council (CNR), Italy