[agents] [meetings] Call for Papers - 9th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2021)

[Alberto Finzi]

[Please excuse cross-postings]
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** CALL FOR PAPERS **

PlanRob 2021: 9th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics
https://icaps21.icaps-conference.org/workshops/PlanRob/

International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2021)

Guangzhou, China
(Due to COVID-19, remote presentation is allowed;
the possibility of a hybrid or virtual format is being investigated)

June 7-8, 2021
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Topics and Objectives
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AI Planning & Scheduling (P&S) methods are key to enabling intelligent
robots to perform autonomous, flexible, and interactive behaviors.
Researchers in the P&S community have continued to develop approaches
and produce planners, representations, as well as heuristics that
robotics researchers can make use of. However, there remain numerous
challenges complicating the uptake, use and successful integration of
P&S technology in robotics, many of which have been addressed by
robotics researchers with novel solutions. Strong collaboration and
synergy between researchers in both communities is vital to the
continued growth of the fields in a way that provides mutual benefits
to the two communities. To foster this, the PlanRob workshop aims to
provide a stable, long-term forum (having been held annually at ICAPS
since 2013) where researchers from both the P&S and Robotics
communities can openly discuss relevant issues, research and
development progress, future directions and open challenges related to
P&S when applied to Robotics. In addition to the usual paper
submissions, the workshop’s format naturally lends itself to
preliminary results, position papers as well as to work focused on
challenges in using and integrating planners in robotics systems.


Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- real-world planning applications for autonomous and intelligent robots;
- optimizing behavior in large scale automated or semi-automated systems;
- integrated planning and execution in robotic architectures;
- planning domain representations for robotics applications;
- P&S methods for optimization and adaptation in robotics;
- mission, path, and motion planning for robots;
- 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;
- challenges and solutions in using P&S technology in robotics;
- open problems for P&S in robotics;
- benchmark planning domains for robots.


Important Dates
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Paper submission: March 7, 2021
Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2021
Camera-ready version due: May 1, 2021
Workshop Date: June 7-8, 2021

The reference time-zone for all deadlines is UTC-12: Your submissions
will be on time so long as there is still some place in the world
where the deadline has not yet passed.


Submissions
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There are two types of submissions: short position papers and regular
papers. Position papers are a maximum of four pages long while regular
papers may be up to ten pages long. Papers may have an additional page
containing references. Regular papers may be scheduled with more time
in the final program. A poster session may be considered to provide a
further presentation opportunity.

The guidelines for formatting are the same as is used for ICAPS 2021
papers (typeset in the AAAI style as described at:
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php), but with the AAAI
copyright removed. The papers must be submitted in PDF format via the
EasyChair system
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=planrob2021).

Please note that papers under review (e.g. which have been submitted
to IJCAI-2021) are also welcome, however, in order to avoid potential
conflicts, these manuscripts should be prepared as anonymous
submissions for a double blind reviewing process.

Accepted papers will be published on the workshop’s website.

The organizers are investigating the availability of journal editors
in order to invite a selection of accepted papers from the workshop to
a special issue or post-proceedings volume.


Organizers
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Iman Awaad,
Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
iman.awaad at h-brs.de

Alberto Finzi,
Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy
alberto.finzi at unina.it

AndreA Orlandini
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Italy
andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it


The ICAPS PlanRob Workshop is partially supported by TAILOR
"Foundations of Trustworthy AI - Integrating Reasoning, Learning and
Optimization", a project funded by the European Commissione (EU H2020
ICT-48 G.A. 952215).