KEPS 2011 - KEPS. Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling

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Category KEPS 2011

Deadline: February 11, 2011 | Date: June 12, 2011-June 13, 2011

Venue/Country: Freiburg, Germany

Updated: 2011-01-11 17:12:44 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Despite the progress in automated planning and scheduling systems, these systems still need to be fed by careful problem description and they need to be fine tuned for particular domains or problems. Knowledge engineering for AI planning and scheduling deals with the acquisition, design, validation and maintenance of domain models, and the selection and optimization of appropriate machinery to work on them. These processes impact directly on the success of real planning and scheduling applications. The importance of knowledge engineering techniques is clearly demonstrated by a performance gap between domain-independent planners and planners exploiting domain dependent knowledge.

The KEPS workshop attracts audience interested in bridging the above-described gap between real-life problems and planning and scheduling algorithms. Its topics include domain and problem formulations, languages, knowledge acquisition (e.g. control rules), visualization, validation and analysis of plans/domains, problem (re)formulation etc.

The workshop will consist of presentations of technical papers that will be immediately commented by other researchers, it will include a demo session where existing systems will be presented, and it will be concluded by an open discussion on the next ICKEPS competition.

Call for Papers

We seek original papers ranging from experience reports to the description of new technology in the following areas:

formulation of domains and problem descriptions

methods and tools for the acquisition of domain knowledge

pre- and post-processing techniques for planners and schedulers

acquisition and refinement of control knowledge

formal languages for domain description

re-use of domain knowledge

translators from other app/lication-area-specific languages to solver-ready

domain models (such as PDDL)

formats for specification of heuristics, parameters and control knowledge for

solvers

import of domain knowledge from general ontologies

ontologies for describing the capabi/lities of planners and schedulers

automated reformulation of problems

automated knowledge extraction processes

domain model, problem and plan va/lidation

visua/lization methods for domain models, search spaces and plans

mapping domain properties and planning techniques

plan representation and reuse

knowledge engineering aspects of plan analysis

Submission Procedure

Two types of papers can be submitted. Full technical papers with the length up to 8 pages are standard research papers. Short application papers with the length up to 2 pages describe a particular system or application. The papers will be presented at different sessions; the technical papers will have a standard presentation format with commentary, while the application papers will be presented in a dedicated session as a system demonstration (similar to ICKEPS system demo or ICAPS application showcase). All papers should conform to the AAAI style template. The papers must be submitted in a PDF format via EasyChair system. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: Friday, February 11, 2011

Notification: Friday, March 11, 2011

Final date for camera-ready copy: TBA

Workshop dates: June 12th or 13th, 2011

Organizers

Roman Barták (Charles University, Czech Republic)

Simone Fratini (ISTC-CNR, Italy)

Lee McCluskey (University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom)

Tiago Stegun Vaquero (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Programme committee (to be confirmed)

Roman Barták, Charles University, Czech Republic (co-chair)

Mark Boddy, Adventium Labs, U.S.A.

Adi Botea, NICTA/ANU, Australia

Luis Castillo, University of Granada, Spain

Amedeo Cesta, ISTC-CNR, Italy

Stefan Edelkamp, Universität Dortmund, Germany

Susana Fernández, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Jeremy Frank, NASA Ames, USA

Simone Fratini, ISTC-CNR, Italy (co-chair)

Antonio Garrido, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Arturo González-Ferrer, University of Granada, Spain

Rania Hatzi, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece

Peter A. Jarvis, NASA, USA

Karen Myers, SRI International, USA

John Levine, University of Strathclyde, UK

Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom (co-chair)

José Reinaldo Silva, University of São Paulo, Brazil

David E. Smith, NASA, USA

Tiago Stegun Vaquero, University of São Paulo, Brazil (co-chair)

Dimitris Vrakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Past related events

KEPS 2010

ICKEPS 2009

KEPS 2008

ICKEPS 2007

ICKEPS 2005