[agents] Call for Papers - 6th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2018)

[AndreA Orlandini]

** 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

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Topics and Objectives

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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

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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

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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

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Alberto Finzi,

Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy

alberto.finzi at unina.it


Erez Karpas

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

karpase at technion.ac.il


Goldie Nejat

The University of Toronto, Canada.

nejat at mie.utoronto.ca


Andre Orlandini

Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Italy

andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it


Siddharth Srivastava,

Arizona State University, Arizona, USA.

siddharths at asu.edu


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