IJCAI-01 Workshop on

Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Seattle, WA, USA, August 4, 2001

Resources such as time, money and machines are fundamental features of real-world planning problems. However, conventional AI planning systems are not normally capable of handling these requirements. In recent years, with the ongoing orientation toward real-world applications, many researchers have begun working on techniques for resource handling. In this context, optimization goals other than plan length are also gaining importance.

The workshop is intended to bring together researchers from communities such as AI planning, scheduling, constraint programming and linear programming. The workshop aims to promote communication between researchers and seeks to highlight new and interesting ideas for planning with resources. Workshop topics will include:

• hybrid systems: separate planning and resource handling
• integrated systems
• reasoning techniques for resources
• temporal planning
• planning and scheduling
• planning with nontrivial optimization goals
• problem modeling, problem domains and benchmark results

In addition to paper presentations, there will be invited talks and panel discussions addressing the following topics:

• Are conventional planning techniques still valid within the extended framework or are there fundamental differences that require a substantial revision of our approaches?
• What can we learn from related areas such as operations research and constraint programming? Can we - and, if so, how can we - adopt these techniques?

Attendance will be limited to 40 participants. Participants will be selected based on refereed submissions. If you wish to attend but are not submitting a paper, please send a one-page statement of interest by the submission deadline.

Paper submissions should be no longer than six pages. Guidelines for the submission format can be found at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/macros-link.html.

Papers may be submitted by e-mailing a document's URL to the workshop chair. If this is not possible, please contact the workshop chair. Accepted submissions will be distributed and included in the workshop notes.

Submission Deadline:	March 23, 2001
Notification Date:	April 11, 2001
Final Submission Due:	April 22, 2001
Workshop Held:	August 4, 2001

Alexander Nareyek
GMD FIRST
German National Research Center for Information Technology
Research Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology
Kekuléstraße 7
D - 12489 Berlin
Germany

Tel: +49 177 792 37 36
Fax: +49 30 6392 1805
E-mail: alex@ai-center.com

Steve Chien, NASA JPL, steve.chien@jpl.nasa.gov
Brian Drabble, CIRL, drabble@cirl.uoregon.edu
Malik Ghallab, LAAS - CNRS, malik@laas.fr
Ari K. Jonsson, NASA Ames, ajonsson@arc.nasa.gov
Jana Koehler, IBM, koe@zurich.ibm.com
Nicola Muscettola, NASA Ames, mus@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
Alexander Nareyek, GMD FIRST, alex@ai-center.com
Joachim P. Walser, i2 Technologies, walser@i2.com

IJCAI-01 Homepage: http://www.boeing.com/nosearch/ijcai/
Workshop Homepage: http://www.ai-center.com/events/ijcai-2001-ws/

Last update:
August 16, 2001 by Alexander Nareyek