[Event at CIG] [meetings] Final Call for Papers - 9th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2021)

[AndreA Orlandini]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

IMPORTANT DEADLINES (EXTENDED)

*Paper submission: May 31, 2021*
*Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2021*


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                                             ** CALL FOR PAPERS **

                            9th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics
                                                  (PlanRob‚ 2021)

https://icaps21.icaps-conference.org/workshops/PlanRob/

               International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
                                               ICAPS 2021 VIRTUAL
                                                   August 2-6, 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 provide 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: May 31, 2021
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2021
Camera-ready version due: July 15, 2021
Workshop Date: August 2-6, 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
iman.awaad at h-brs.de

Alberto Finzi,
Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy
alberto.finzi at unina.it

AndreA Orlandini 
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies 
(ISTC-CNR), Italy
andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it


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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