Forwarded message from [alex@ai-center.com] sent originally on Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:29:51 +0800 (GMT-8): : DEADLINE APPROACHING (March 10)! : : (Please apologize if you receive multiple copies) : : ************************************************************ : : Final Call for Papers/Participation : : AAAI-2000 Workshop on : Constraints and AI Planning : : Austin, Texas, USA, July 30, 2000 : : http://www.ai-center.com/events/aaai-2000-ws/ : : ************************************************************ : : The management of constraints is an integral part of today's : planning systems. It includes the simple orderings in POP : systems as well as the exclusion relations of today's : cutting-edge Graphplan-based planners. The need for : expressive formalisms with efficient propagation and : refinement techniques to extract solutions will grow further : given the ongoing orientation toward real-world problems, : which are constrained as regards temporal, spatial and many : other resources. Constraint programming has much to : contribute in this domain. : : The workshop will bring together researchers from the AI : planning and the constraint programming (including SAT) : communities. Despite early work to integrate activity : planning and constraint reasoning, there has been little : recent exchange between these communities. New interest is : now being shown and results from the SAT field have already : been integrated in some planners. The workshop will promote : communication between researchers and seeks to highlight : new and interesting ideas for combining planning with : constraint programming. Topics of interest include: : : * Hybrid systems: separate planners and constraint solvers : * Integrated systems : * Rich plan representations allowing for a variety of : constraints : * Planning with resource constraints : * Planning with nontrivial optimization goals : * Specialized propagation techniques and labeling : heuristics : * Planning as constraint satisfaction/optimization : * Extended CSP frameworks for handling planning problems : : In addition to paper presentations, there will be invited : talks and panel discussions addressing the following topics: : : * What can constraint programming offer in terms of : planning? What kind of problems can be tackled with which : techniques? : * How does a planning problem differ from a constraint : satisfaction problem? Can we - and, if so, how can we - : cope with these differences? : : --- ATTENDANCE --- : : 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. : : --- SUBMISSIONS --- : : Paper submissions should be no longer than six pages. : Guidelines for the submission format can be found at : http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/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 an AAAI Press technical report. : : Submission Deadline: March 10, 2000 : Notification Date: March 24, 2000 : Final Submission Due: April 26, 2000 : Workshop Held: July 30, 2000 : : --- CHAIR --- : : Alexander Nareyek : GMD FIRST : Kekuléstraße 7 : D - 12489 Berlin : Germany : : Tel: +49 177 792 37 36 : Fax: +49 30 6392 1805 : E-mail: alex@ai-center.com : : --- COMMITTEE --- : : Eugene C. Freuder University of New Hampshire : Ulrich Geske GMD FIRST : Subbarao Kambhampati Arizona State University : Henry Kautz AT&T Labs : Nicola Muscettola NASA Ames : Alexander Nareyek GMD FIRST : Austin Tate University of Edinburgh : Peter van Beek University of Alberta : : --- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION --- : : AAAI-2000 Homepage: : http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2000/aaai-iaai2000.html : : Workshop Homepage: : http://www.ai-center.com/events/aaai-2000-ws/

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