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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
[email protected]
Alberto Finzi,
Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy
[email protected]
AndreA Orlandini
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Italy
[email protected]
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).
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