ICAPS'03 Program Schedule

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Wednesday, June 11

08.55 - 09.00
Welcome Address
09.00 - 10.00
Invited Talk:
Subbarao Kambhampati: 1001 Ways to Skin a Planning Graph for Heuristic Fun and Profit   (abstract)
Session Chair: Enrico Giunchiglia
10.00
Coffee Break
10.30 - 12.30
Session: Methods for Planning and Scheduling
Session Chair:
Dan Weld
10.30
Automated Planning and Scheduling using Calculus of Variations in Discrete Space
Yixin Chen, Benjamin W. Wah
11.00
Labeled RTDP: Improving the Convergence of Real-Time Dynamic Programming
Blai Bonet, Hector Geffner
11.30
Branching Matters: Alternative Branching in Graphplan
Jorg Hoffmann, Hector Geffner
12.00
Symmetry reduction for SAT representations of transition systems
Jussi Rintanen
12.30 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 15.30
Session: Temporal Planning
Session Chair:
Hector Geffner
14.00
Improving Temporal Flexibility of Position Constrained Metric Temporal Plans
Minh B. Do, Subbarao Kambhampati
14.30
Exploiting a Graphplan Framework in Temporal Planning
Derek Long, Maria Fox
15.00
Local Search Techniques for Temporal Planning in LPG
Alfonso Gerevini, Ivan Serina, Alessandro Saetti, Sergio Spinoni
15.30
Coffee Break
16.00 - 18.00
Session: Acquisition of Domain and Control Knowledge
Session Chair:
Susanne Biundo
16.00
Localizing Planning with Functional Process Models
J. William Murdock, Ashok K. Goel
16.30
Learning Rules for Adaptive Planning
Dimitris Vrakas, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Nick Bassiliades, Ioannis Vlahavas
17.00
GIPO II: HTN Planning in a Tool-supported Knowledge Engineering Environment
T. L. McCluskey, D. Liu, R. M. Simpson
17.30
GPT Meets PSR
Blai Bonet, Sylvie Thiebaux
18.00 - 19.30
System Demo / Doctoral Consortium Presentation


Thursday, June 12

09.00 - 10.00
Invited Talk:
Malik Ghallab: Plan-Based Robot Control  (abstract)
Session Chair: Nicola Muscettola
10.00
Coffee Break
10.30 - 12.30
Session: Planning and Control
Session Chair:
Paolo Traverso
10.30
Synthesis of Hierarchical Finite-State Controllers for POMDPs
Eric A. Hansen, Rong Zhou
11.00
Guided Symbolic Universal Planning
Rune M. Jensen, Manuela M. Veloso, Randal E. Bryant
11.30
Decision-Theoretic Group Elevator Scheduling
Daniel Nikovski, Matthew Brand
12.00
Reasoning about Autonomous Processes in an Estimated-Regression Planner
Drew McDermott
12.30 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 15.30
Session: Planning and the WEB
Session Chair:
Craig Knoblock
14.00
The Role of Planning in Grid Computing
Jim Blythe, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Carl Kesselman, Amit Agarwal, Gaurang Mehta
14.30
Recommendation as a Stochastic Sequential Decision Problem
Ronen Brafman, David Heckerman, Guy Shani
15.00
Planning for Marketing Campaigns
Qiang Yang, Hong Cheng
15.30 - 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 - 18.00
Session: Sensing, Uncertainty and Incomplete Information
Session Chair:
Sven Koenig
16.00
Expressive Equivalence of Formalisms for Planning with Sensing
Jussi Rintanen
16.30
A Framework for Planning in Continuous-time Stochastic Domains
Hakan L. S. Younes, David J. Musliner, Reid G. Simmons
17.00
Conformant Probabilistic Planning via CSPs
Nathanael Hyafil, Fahiem Bacchus
17.30
A Framework for Planning with Extended Goals under Partial Observability
Piergiorgio Bertoli, Alessandro Cimatti, Marco Pistore, Paolo Traverso
18.00 - 19.00
 
19.00 - 21.00
Social Dinner


Friday, June 13

09.00 - 10.00
Invited Talk:
Douglas Smith: Automated Synthesis of High-Performance Planners and Schedulers   (abstract)
Session Chair: Dana Nau
10.00
Coffee Break
10.30 - 12.30
Session: Planning and Scheduling Systems and Applications
Session Chair:
Amedeo Cesta
10.30
SOFIA`s Choice: Scheduling Observations for an Airborne Observatory
Jeremy Frank, Elif Kurklu
11.00
A Multi-Agent System-driven AI Planning Approach to Biological Pathway Discovery
Salim Khan, William Gillis, Carl Schmidt, Keith Decker
11.30
A Mixed-initiative Framework for Robust Plan Sketching
Karen L. Myers , Peter A. Jarvis , W. Mabry Tyson , Michael J. Wolverton
12.00
ICAPS Open Business Meeting
12.30 - 14.30
Lunch
14.30 - 15.30
Panel: Ubiquitous planning: difficulties and techniques to overcome them
Session Chair:
Nicola Muscettola
15.30 - 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 - 18.00
Session: Scheduling
Session Chair:
David Smith
16.00
Vehicle Routing and Job Shop Scheduling: What`s the difference?
J. Christopher Beck, Patrick Prosser, Evgeny Selensky
16.30
Quality and Utility - Towards a Generalization of Deadline and Anytime Scheduling
Thomas Schwarzfischer
17.00
Optimal Rectangle Packing: Initial Results
Richard E. Korf
17.30
Economically Augmented Job Shop Scheduling
Wolfram Conen