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      <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-converted-space">               
                      </span>** CALL FOR PAPERS **</p>
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      <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-converted-space">                
              </span>8th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics</p>
      <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-converted-space">                
                        </span>(PlanRob‚ 2020)</p>
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      <p class="p1"><span class="Apple-converted-space">               
               </span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
          href="http://icaps20.icaps-conference.org/"
          moz-do-not-send="true">http://icaps20.icaps-conference.org/</a></p>
      <p class="p1" style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align:
          center;">                             ICAPS 2020 Workshop</span></p>
      <p class="p1" style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align:
          center;">                                Nancy, France</span></p>
      <p class="p1" style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align:
          center;">                           June 14 or June 15, 2020</span></p>
      <p class="p1">-----------------------------------------------------------------------<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
      <p class="p2"><br>
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      <p class="p1">Topics and Objectives</p>
      <p class="p1">***************</p>
      <p class="p2"><br>
      </p>
      <p class="p1">AI Planning & Scheduling (P&S) methods are
        crucial to enable intelligent</p>
      <p class="p1">robots to perform autonomous, flexible, and
        interactive behaviors, but a</p>
      <p class="p1">deep integration into robotic architectures is
        needed for their effective </p>
      <p class="p1">deployment. This requires a close collaboration
        between researchers from </p>
      <p class="p1">both the AI and the Robotics communities. In this
        direction, this workshop </p>
      <p class="p1">aims at constituting a stable, long-term forum where
        researchers from both </p>
      <p class="p1">the P&S and the Robotics communities can openly
        discuss about relevant issues, </p>
      <p class="p1">research and development progress, future directions
        and open challenges </p>
      <p class="p1">related to P&S when applied to Robotics.<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
      <p class="p2"><br>
      </p>
      <p class="p1">The PlanRob workshop is proposed in synergy with
        ICAPS tracks. We are trying </p>
      <p class="p1">to explore different ways to synchronize with Humans
        and Robotics Track but </p>
      <p class="p1">also with Knowledge Engineering, Integrated
        Execution and System Architecture </p>
      <p class="p1">track. The PlanRob WS aims to maintain a more
        informal forum where also more </p>
      <p class="p1">preliminary/visionary works can be discussed
        stimulating direct and open </p>
      <p class="p1">interactions.</p>
      <p class="p2"><br>
      </p>
      <p class="p1">Topics of interest include but not limited to the
        following:</p>
      <p class="p1">- planning domain representations for robotics
        applications;</p>
      <p class="p1">- mission, path, and motion planning for robots;</p>
      <p class="p1">- integrated planning and execution in robotic
        architectures;</p>
      <p class="p1">- planning and coordination methods for multi-robot
        teams;</p>
      <p class="p1">- mixed-initiative planning and sliding autonomy for
        robotic systems;</p>
      <p class="p1">- human-aware planning and execution in human-robot
        interaction;</p>
      <p class="p1">- adversarial action planning in competitive robotic
        domains;</p>
      <p class="p1">- formal methods for robot planning and control;</p>
      <p class="p1">- P&S methods for optimization and adaptation in
        robotics;</p>
      <p class="p1">- benchmark planning domains for robots;</p>
      <p class="p1">- optimizing behavior in large scale automated or
        semi-automated systems;</p>
      <p class="p1">- real-world planning applications for autonomous
        and intelligent robots.</p>
      <p class="p2"><br>
      </p>
      <p class="p2"><br>
      </p>
      <p class="p1">Important Dates</p>
      <p class="p1">***************</p>
      <p class="p1">Paper submission: March 7, 2020</p>
      <p class="p1">Notification of acceptance: April 1st, 2020</p>
      <p class="p1">Camera-ready version due:<span class="Apple-tab-span">      </span>TBD</p>
      <p class="p1">Workshop Date: June 14 or June 15, 2020</p>
      <p class="p2"><br>
      </p>
      <p class="p2"><br>
      </p>
      <p class="p1">Submissions</p>
      <p class="p1">***************</p>
      <p class="p1">There are two types of submissions: short position
        statements and regular </p>
      <p class="p1">papers. Position papers are a maximum of 4 (four)
        pages. Regular papers </p>
      <p class="p1">are a maximum of 10 (ten) pages.<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
      <p class="p2"><br>
      </p>
      <p class="p1">All papers should be typeset in the AAAI style,
        described at: </p>
      <p class="p1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
          href="http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php"
          moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php</a>
        removing AAAI copyright. </p>
      <p class="p1">Accepted papers will be published on the workshop
        website and printed as a hard-copy.</p>
      <p class="p2"><br>
      </p>
      <p class="p1">The papers must be submitted in a PDF format via
        EasyChair system<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
      <p class="p1">(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
          href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=planrob2020"
          moz-do-not-send="true">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=planrob2020</a>).</p>
      <p class="p2"><br>
      </p>
      <p class="p1">Notice that papers under review (e.g., submitted to
        IJCAI-2020) are also welcome, </p>
      <p class="p1">however, in order to avoid potential conflicts these
        manuscripts should be </p>
      <p class="p1">prepared as anonymous submissions for a double blind
        reviewing process.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
      <p class="p2"><br>
      </p>
      <p class="p1">The organizers will investigate the availability of
        journal editors in order </p>
      <p class="p1">to invite a selection of accepted papers from the
        workshop to a special issue </p>
      <p class="p1">or post-proceedings volume.</p>
      <p class="p2"><br>
      </p>
      <p class="p2"><br>
      </p>
      <p class="p1">Organization Chairs</p>
      <p class="p1">*******************</p>
      <p class="p1">Michael Cashmore,</p>
      <p class="p1">university of Strathclyde, U.K.</p>
      <p class="p1"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
          href="mailto:michael.cashmore@strath.ac.uk"
          moz-do-not-send="true">michael.cashmore@strath.ac.uk</a></p>
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      </p>
      <p class="p1">Alberto Finzi,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
      <p class="p1">Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy</p>
      <p class="p1"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
          href="mailto:alberto.finzi@unina.it" moz-do-not-send="true">alberto.finzi@unina.it</a></p>
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      <p class="p1">AndreA Orlandini <span class="s2"><br>
        </span>Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
        (ISTC-CNR), Italy</p>
      <p class="p1"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
          href="mailto:andrea.orlandini@istc.cnr.it"
          moz-do-not-send="true">andrea.orlandini@istc.cnr.it</a></p>
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