Call for Papers

The International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS) is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners in intelligent planning and scheduling and related fields. Topics of relevance to the conference  include planning and scheduling theory and practice, as well as applications of planning and scheduling technology to challenging problem domains. The organizing committee solicits paper submissions on all aspects of planning and scheduling, including but not limited to the topics listed below.  Submissions that link planning and scheduling to the related fields of constraint reasoning, uncertainty, verification and validation, and operations research, are strongly encouraged.

• anytime planning and scheduling
• applications of planning and scheduling
• case-based planning
• complexity analysis for planning and scheduling
• constraint reasoning for planning and scheduling
• decision-theoretic planning and scheduling
• deductive planning
• distributed and multiagent planning and scheduling
• domain-independent classical planning
• domain analysis for planning and scheduling
• dynamic scheduling
• hierarchical task network planning
• information technology to support planning and scheduling
• knowledge engineering for planning and scheduling
• knowledge acquisition for planning and scheduling
• lessons learned from deployed systems
• logics and formal models for planning and scheduling
• machine learning for planning and scheduling
• methodologies and tools for specification, design, implementation, and validation of planning and scheduling systems
• mixed-initiative planning and scheduling
• model-theoretic approaches to planning
• operations research techniques for plan and schedule optimization
• plan and schedule execution, monitoring and repair
• plan recognition
• planning and perception
• planning and scheduling under uncertainty
• planning with resources and time constraints
• reactive planning
• reasoning about actions
• realtime planning and scheduling
• robot planning
• scalability in planning and scheduling
• search for planning and scheduling
• tools for developing large-scale planning and scheduling systems
• verification and validation of plans and schedules, planners, schedulers, and domain models
• visualization for complex plans and schedules

Submitted papers should contain theoretical or experimental results that advance significantly the state of the art in planning and scheduling, or should  report on the use of planning and scheduling technology in operational applications. Submissions will be judged according to their scientific and technical merits, as well as their relevance to the themes of the conference. In previous years, roughly one third of the submitted papers have been accepted. Papers must be prepared according to the AAAI style template (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/macros-link.html) and must be no more than ten (10) pages long, including figures and bibliography. Papers must be in PDF format and should be submitted electronically via the submissions link on the conference web site. Authors of accepted papers must present their work at the conference. We encourage authors of accepted papers involving experimental results to make their systems and data available on the web and demonstrate their systems at the conference.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline Date: November 15, 2004, extended to November 17, 2004
Paper Acceptance Notification Date: January 10, 2005
Camera-ready Copy Due Date: March 9, 2005