Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation

WIPC - Workshop on the International Planning Competition

The International Planning Competition (IPC) is held every two or three years within the International Conference on Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). The IPC has become a reference source for developing planning techniques as well as advancing planning models and languages, benchmark problems, planning engines, and evaluation metrics. Currently the IPC comprises three parts: (1) The deterministic part for the evaluation of domain-independent planners in deterministic and fully observable environments. This part has been the main focus of the IPC over the years; (2) The learning part, for planners able to learn and exploit domain-specific knowledge in deterministic planning, and (3) the uncertainty part for domain-independent planners able to plan under uncertainty.

Similar to the lineage of IPC workshops organised at ICAPS 2003, 2007, and 2012, this workshop aims to review the current status of the IPC and provide a venue for discussing aspects that will be helpful for preparing forthcoming competitions. Topics include, but need not be limited to:

Past, present and future of the IPC
Proposing new and/or revising the current tracks
Domain Definition Languages (benefits and limitations)
challenging domains for heuristic search planning
Benchmark Domains
Benchmark Problem generation and selection
Evaluation Metrics
Results (interpretation, informativeness)

Proceedings

The full WIPC proceedings are available as a pdf file.

Schedule

The workshop will be held on June 8, 2015 in Room E.

This schedule as a PDF file.

08:30-08:40	Welcome
08:40-10:00	Tutorial T4: Introduction to Planning Domain Modeling in RDDL (Scott Sanner)
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:40-12:00	Session I
	Michal Štolba, Antonín Komenda and Daniel Kovacs Competition of Distributed and Multiagent Planners (CoDMAP)
	Paolo Traverso, Malik Ghallab and Dana Nau An IPC Track on Deliberative Acting: Moving the competition ahead towards more relevant scientific challenges
	Christian Muise and Nir Lipovetzky Unplannability IPC Track
	Frederic Boussemart, Christophe Lecoutre, Arnaud Malapert and Cedric Piette About Benchmarking and Competitions of Solvers in Constraint Programming
12:00-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-15:20	Tutorial T3: Planning with PDDL+ (Daniele Magazzeni)
15:25-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:00	Session II
	Mauro Vallati and Tiago Vaquero Towards a Unified Protocol for Benchmark Selection in IPC
	Patricia J Riddle, Michael W Barley and Santiago Franco Bagged Representations in PDDL, Patricia J Riddle
	Thomas Keller and Florian Geißer Better Be Lucky Than Good: Exceeding Expectations in MDP Evaluation
17:00-17:30	Discussion
17:30	End of Workshop

Submissions

Paper submission is in PDF only. Please format submissions in AAAI style (see instructions at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php) Final papers will be in the same format, keep them to at most 8+1 pages long (meaning 8 pages plus 1 extra page containing only references). We also welcome the submission of short position papers (at most 4+1 pages long).

Paper Submissions should be made through the workshop EasyChair web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipc15.

Deadline and Dates

Submission deadline: ~~February 20, 2015~~ EXTENDED: March 6, 2015.
Notification: March 20, 2015
Workshop date: June 8th, 2015

Organizers

Lukas Chrpa, University of Huddersfield
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield
Mark "Mak" Roberts, NRC Postdoc, Naval Research Laboratory
Scott Sanner, NICTA and the Australian National University
Mauro Vallati, University of Huddersfield

Program Committee

Daniel Borrajo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Amanda Coles, King's College London, UK
Andrew Coles, King's College London, UK
Alfonso Gerevini, University of Brescia, Italy
Carlos Linares Lopez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Sergio Jiménez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Erez Karpas, MIT, USA
Héctor Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain