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Submission deadline: April 18, 2021
- Notification: May 10, 2021
Call for Papers: Journal Presentations Track
The program committee of the 31st International Conference on
Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) invites submissions
of published journal papers for the Journal Presentations
Track, initiated in 2014.
The track is designed to provide a forum to discuss important
results related to automated planning and scheduling that
appeared recently (from January 2020 onwards) in selective
journals, but have not been previously presented either at
ICAPS or at any other major AI conference (such as IJCAI,
AAAI, ECAI).
The goal of this track is twofold: To provide authors an
opportunity to present at the conference important results
published in journals that might otherwise not be submitted to
the conference due to their length and complexity. Papers that
differ from traditional ICAPS format and topics are welcome.
To broaden the program with lines of work at the intersection
between planning/scheduling and related fields such as for
example constraint programming, operations research, control,
knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning,
multi-agent systems, robotics, transportation, computer games,
and cognitive science. Papers that use planning and scheduling
in some innovative way (even if they do not advance the
planning technology itself) are welcome.
Paper Presentation
All accepted journal presentations will be presented orally
during the conference – at least one author is expected to
register to ICAPS 2021 and to present the paper online.
Complete citations, abstracts and URLs of the original journal
papers (if available from the publisher) will be published on
the ICAPS 2021 web site as a permanent reference.
Submission Requirements
Journal track submissions must meet the following criteria:
Candidate papers must be published in a journal such as (but
not limited to) AIJ, JAIR, EJOR, AURO, JAAMAS, KER and other
leading journals relevant to each research area from January
2020 until the submission deadline. Papers that are in press
may be submitted as long as the final camera-ready version is
available. Extensions of papers that have been previously
presented at ICAPS or another major AI conference (such as
IJCAI, AAAI, ECAI) may be submitted to this track. However,
submissions will be reviewed upon the strength of the new
content.
Submission Process
All submissions will be done via EasyChair using
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaps2021. The submission will be in the following format (please
include all elements other than the original paper as a zip
archive in the supplementary material):
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Title of the original journal paper (to be published on
the Web);
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Complete reference of the original paper (to be published
on the Web);
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URL where the paper can be downloaded from the publisher
if available, or alternatively a preprint (to be published
on the Web);
- Abstract of the paper (to be published on the Web);
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An accompanying cover letter containing a brief summary of
the key results and contributions. It is crucial to
include information about importance of the paper and its
contributions for the ICAPS community;
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A copy of the paper with its final camera-ready contents.
Submissions will go through an expedited selection process led
by the track chairs. Selection criteria include significance
of the results together with the relevance to the planning and
scheduling community.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: April 18, 2021
Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2021
ICAPS conference: June 7-12, 2021
The reference timezone for all deadlines is UTC-12 (AoE time).
That is, as long as there is still some place Anywhere on
Earth where the deadline has not yet passed, you are on time.
Journal Presentations Track Chairs
Malte Helmert (malte.helmert@unibas.ch), University of Basel
Hana Rudova (hanka@fi.muni.cz), Masaryk University
Contact
If you have any inquiries related to the track, please contact
the track chairs.