Call for Papers

ICAPS'08 Multiagent Planning Workshop

CfP as plain text

Planning for multiagent systems is a broad field with many applications, but its subfields remain rather dispersed. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on multiagent plan coordination, multiagent planning architectures, decision-theoretic and game-theoretic approaches, distributed plan management, and related techniques. Despite the diversity, several common issues exist like scalability, representing uncertainty, and dealing with conflicting preferences or goals.

In particular, the focus of workshop will be modeling for multiagent planning, as a common theme that will benefit from interaction among the different sub-communities. Hence, we solicit papers on the following topics:

• alternative models of communication, interdependencies, interaction, and decentralization and their challenges
• exploiting domain-specific information to simplify models of multiagent planning problems
• techniques to overcome multiagent planning complexity
• alternative models for multiagent scheduling
• suitability of existing/new models for applications

We encourage authors to address directly at least one of these issues in their submissions. Papers will be selected for presentation by a review process conducted by the Program Committee members. Submissions should be in the ICAPS'08 format with a maximum of 8 pages and are to be uploaded in PDF format at easychair by June 25. Short position papers (2 page maximum) are also welcome. Authors of position papers may be asked to participate in a panel discussion or give a short presentation, depending on the number of position papers and their topics. We will consider papers recently published at conferences if they are clearly marked as such.

Important Dates

June 25, 2008 extended	Deadline for paper submissions
July 11, 2008	Paper acceptance notification
August 8, 2008	Camera-ready deadline
September 14 or 15, 2008	Workshop (actual day to be determined)

Organizing committee

• Matthijs Spaan, Institute for Systems and Robotics/IST, Lisbon, Portugal
• Brad Clement, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA, USA
• Mathijs de Weerdt, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Shlomo Zilberstein, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, USA

Program committee

• Michael Brenner, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Prashant Doshi, University of Georgia
• Ed Durfee, University of Michigan
• Boi Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
• Luke Hunsberger, Vassar College
• Sven Koenig, University of Southern California
• Roman van der Krogt, University College Cork
• Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• Beatriz López, University of Girona
• Karen Myers, SRI International
• Daniele Nardi, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
• Adrian Pearce, University of Melbourne
• Jeffrey Rosenschein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Sebastian Sardina, RMIT University
• Pradeep Varakantham, Carnegie Mellon University
• Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University
• Cees Witteveen, Delft University of Technology
• Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University