Call for Papers
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Overview

Research in classical planning has led to significant improvements in planner performance. However, lack of scalability with respect to the number of objects in the domain remains a longstanding open problem.

We invite contributions from researchers working to address this challenge. Possible research directions include generating plans that solve multiple problem instances by employing rich plan structures such as loops, using domain control knowledge for reducing the cost of planning, and other related areas. Common to many of these approaches is the notion of a generalized plan -- a rich representation that resembles a computer program with branches and loops. While approaches exploiting such representations have demonstrated promising results, many fundamental challenges remain.

The broad goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion and evaluation of techniques for building scalable planners that utilize rich representations for expressing knowledge and solution plans. An additional objective is to re-evaluate some of the most fundamental, traditionally accepted notions in planning about plan structure and representation of domain knowledge. Some of the questions motivating this workshop are:

Topics

Topics of interest to this workshop bring together research being conducted in a range of areas, including classical planning, knowledge engineering, partial policies and hierarchical reinforcement learning, plan verification, and model checking. Potential topics include but are not limited to: as well as applications of these ideas in:

Paper Format and Submission

We invite technical papers (up to 8 pages), position papers (up to 2 pages) and papers with clear and concise formulations of open problems and potential solution approaches (up to 4 pages). Non-technical papers can be more exploratory in nature; however, complexity analyses of proposed solutions or comparisons with existing approaches are encouraged. We invite submissions describing either work in progress or mature work that has already been published at other research venues. Submission of previously published work in whole or in part may be in the form of a resubmission of a previous paper, or in the form of a position paper that overviews and cites a body of work.

All papers should be typeset in the AAAI style, described at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php.

Papers should be submitted in PDF form by email to genplan09 "at" cs.toronto.edu, with "Genplan-09 submission" as the subject. Queries about the submission procedure or other details can also be sent to this address.

While the workshop itself will not have any registration fees, workshop participants will need to register for ICAPS-09.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline
 June 23 June 28, 2009
Author Notification
 July 22, 2009
Final Version
 Aug 8, 2009
Workshop Date
 Sep 20, 2009

Program Committee

Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA
Adi Botea, NICTA and Australian National University, Australia
Alessandro Cimatti, IRST, Italy
Maria Fox, University of Strathclyde, UK
Hector Geffner, ICREA, Spain
Robert Goldman, SIFT, USA
Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University, USA
Ugur Kuter, University of Maryland, USA
Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen University of Technology, Germany
Hector Levesque, University of Toronto, Canada
Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto, Canada
Karen Myers, SRI International, USA
Bernhard Nebel, University of Freiburg, Germany
Stuart Russell, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Sebastian Sardina, RMIT University, Australia
Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Brian Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Shlomo Zilberstein, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Organizing Committee

Christian Fritz, University of Toronto, Canada
 (Co-Chair)
Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto, Canada
Siddharth Srivastava, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
 (Co-Chair)
Shlomo Zilberstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA