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DEADLINE EXTENSION ANNOUNCEMENT<br>
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<b>**New** Paper submission: March 26, 2021</b><br>
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**New** Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2021</b><br>
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** CALL FOR PAPERS **<br>
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9th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and
Robotics<br>
(PlanRob‚ 2021)<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://icaps21.icaps-conference.org/workshops/PlanRob/">https://icaps21.icaps-conference.org/workshops/PlanRob/</a><br>
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International Conference on Automated Planning and
Scheduling<br>
ICAPS 2021
Guangzhou, China
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June 7-8, 2021<br>
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Topics and Objectives<br>
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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 provide 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.<br>
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:<br>
- real-world planning applications for autonomous and intelligent
robots;<br>
- optimizing behavior in large scale automated or semi-automated
systems;<br>
- integrated planning and execution in robotic architectures;<br>
- planning domain representations for robotics applications;<br>
- P&S methods for optimization and adaptation in robotics;<br>
- mission, path, and motion planning for robots;<br>
- planning and coordination methods for multi-robot teams;<br>
- mixed-initiative planning and sliding autonomy for robotic
systems;<br>
- human-aware planning and execution in human-robot interaction;<br>
- adversarial action planning in competitive robotic domains;<br>
- formal methods for robot planning and control;<br>
- challenges and solutions in using P&S technology in robotics;<br>
- open problems for P&S in robotics,<br>
- benchmark planning domains for robots.<br>
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Important Dates<br>
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Paper submission: March 26, 2021<br>
Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2021<br>
Camera-ready version due: May 1, 2021<br>
Workshop Date: June 7-8, 2021<br>
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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.<br>
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Submissions<br>
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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.<br>
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The guidelines for formatting are the same as is used for ICAPS 2021
papers (typeset in the AAAI style as described at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php">http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php</a>), but with the
AAAI copyright removed. The papers must be submitted in PDF format
via the EasyChair system
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=planrob2021">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=planrob2021</a>).<br>
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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.<br>
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Accepted papers will be published on the workshop’s website.<br>
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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.<br>
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Organizers<br>
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Iman Awaad,<br>
Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:iman.awaad@h-brs.de">iman.awaad@h-brs.de</a><br>
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Alberto Finzi,<br>
Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alberto.finzi@unina.it">alberto.finzi@unina.it</a><br>
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AndreA Orlandini
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
(ISTC-CNR), Italy<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:andrea.orlandini@istc.cnr.it">andrea.orlandini@istc.cnr.it</a><br>
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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).<br>
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