------------------------------------------------ FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------ S P A R K Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop An ICAPS'08 Workshop ------------------------------------------------ http://decsai.ugr.es/~lcv/SPARK/index.html ------------------------------------------------ Selected papers to be published in Computational Intelligence International Journal ------------------------------------------------ Aim --- The aim of this workshop is to provide a stable, long-term forum collocated with ICAPS (International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling), where researchers and practitioners can discuss the applications of planning and scheduling techniques to real problems in contrast to academic toy benchmarks. That is, these domains and instances should be under study for, or closely inspired by, a real industrial/commercial deployment of P&S techniques. This workshop follows antecedent meetings at previous years of ICAPS, particularly the ICAPS'07 Workshop on Moving Planning and Scheduling Systems into the Real World. Challenges and discussions from one year's edition will be used to set the baseline for the successive editions so that the workshop fosters an evolving and cumulative perspective of the applications and their challenges along the years. This effort is intended to converge to a set of challenges that could be of benefit for the research community. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to share their domains and instances or part of them to begin a library of practical benchmarking problems that could also be useful for the community. The highest quality papers from this workshop will be eligible for a special issue of the Computational Intelligence International Journal. Format ------ The workshop will consist of a single full day. All submissions will be reviewed by selected program committee members, selected from 7 universities, 7 research institutes and 7 companies. The goal of the reviewing process will be to ensure the quality of the submitted papers and provide feedback to authors. In order to foster discussion amongst speakers and attendees, this workshop will follow a commentary scheme. Reviewers will be asked to write a public critique of each paper composed by a set of public questions or thoughts, given that they are not confidential and authors have been previously informed, and this list of public questions will be distributed amongst the audience, so that each attendant may judge by him/herself, and raise their own questions to speakers. Each session will consist of presentations of technical papers, their commentaries, and a short discussion on the topic of papers. The workshop will conclude with a panel discussion devoted to gather all the relevant issues and challenges that could be inherited by future editions of this workshop. Topics ------ We explicitly encourage contributions from both scheduling and planning backgrounds, as well as from those outside the traditional ICAPS community who can contribute to the themes of the workshop. The workshop will highlight relevant aspects related to the fielding of these techniques, including, but not limited to: * Comparison with previously existing technologies and/or systems * Integration of operational knowledge from existing legacy components * Integration of multiple sources of knowledge and reasoning schemes (actions, time, resources) * Knowledge engineering effort * Algorithmic and technological issues * Mixed initiative approaches * User interface design, visualization and explanation * Machine learning methodologies * Handling dynamic and uncertain sources of knowledge * Execution and validation of plans and schedules * Engineering, deployment, and maintenance * Evaluation, testing, and validation * Assessment of impact on end users Submission Information ---------------------- Submissions may be regular papers (preferably 6 pages, although consideration will be given to papers of up to 8 pages) or short position papers (at most 2 pages). All papers should conform to the AAAI style template (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/macros-link.html). Submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees. Interested contributors are invited to communicate their intent to submit to the workshop organizers. Submissions, in PDF format only, should be sent by email to L.Castillo at decsai.ugr.es (remove the spaces) using the subject line ICAPS'08 SPARK Submission. All workshop participants must be registered for ICAPS'08 or a co-located conference. Important Dates --------------- Deadline for papers: June 18, 2008. EXTENDED JUNE 23rd Notification of acceptance: July 11, 2008 Final revisions: July 25, 2008 Workshop date: September 15, 2008 Organization ------------ * Luis Castillo. University of Granada. Spain. L.Castillo at decsai.ugr.es * Gabriella Cortellessa. ISTC-CNR. Italy. gabriella.cortellessa at istc.cnr.it * Neil Yorke-Smith. SRI International. USA. nysmith at ai.sri.com Progam Committee ---------------- * Amedeo Cesta, ISTC-CNR, IT * David Smith, NASA, US * David Wilkins, SRI International, US * Felix Ingrand, LAAS, FR * Gabriella Cortellessa, ISTC-CNR, IT * Gerard Verfaillie, CERT, FR * Juan Fernández-Olivares, U Granada, ES * Kanna Rajan, MBARI, US * Karen Myers, SRI International, US * Luis Castillo, U Granada, ES * Mark Boddy, Adventium Labs, US * Neil Yorke-Smith, SRI International, US * Nicola Policella, ESOC, GE * Oscar García-Pérez, IActive Intelligent Solutions, ES * Peter Jarvis, NASA, US * Philippe Laborie, ILOG, FR * Roman Bartak, Charles U, CZ * Ruth Aylett, Heriot Watt U, UK * Steve Chien, JPL, US * Stephen Smith, CMU, US * Tiago Vaquero, U S. Paulo, BR