ICAPS 2021, the 31st International Conference on Automated
Planning and Scheduling, will take place in Guangzhou, China,
June 7-12, 2021. ICAPS 2021 will be part of the ICAPS conference
series, the premier forum for exchanging news and research
results on theory and applications of intelligent planning and
scheduling technology. It is as yet too early to determine
whether ICAPS 2021 will have the traditional structure, or will
have to be taken partly, or wholly on-line. We will keep the
community informed as we monitor the pandemic situation.
Nevertheless, ICAPS 2021 will take place in some format.
ICAPS 2021 will feature 4 different tracks:
*** Main Track
*** Novel Applications Track
*** Special Track on Robotics
*** Special Track on Planning and Learning
Additionally, the ICAPS program will include demonstrations,
workshops, and tutorials, each having separate submission and
notification dates, to be announced separately.
The ICAPS 2021 program committee invites paper submissions
related to automated planning and scheduling. Relevant
contributions include, but are not limited to:
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Applications and case studies of planning and scheduling
techniques
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Uncertainty and stochasticity in planning and scheduling
- Partially observable and unobservable domains
- Conformant, contingent and adversarial planning
- Plan and schedule execution, monitoring and repair
- Continuous planning, on-line and real-time domains
- Plan recognition, plan management and goal reasoning
- Classical planning techniques and analysis
- Continuous state and action spaces based planning
- Multi-agent and distributed planning
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Action model learning, knowledge acquisition and engineering
- Learning for planning and scheduling
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Human computer interaction for planning and scheduling
systems
- Mixed initiative planning and scheduling systems
- Mixed planning with continuous and discrete actions
- Planning and decision support for human-machine teams
- Human-aware planning and behavior prediction
- Planning for explainable machine learning
Important Dates
We have arranged our schedule to permit revision and
resubmission of papers rejected from AAAI 2021.
*** December 11, 2020 Abstracts due (electronic submission)
*** December 18, 2020 Full Papers due (electronic submission,
PDF)
*** January 27-29, 2021 Author feedback period
*** February 16, 2021 Notification of acceptance or rejection
The reference timezone for all deadlines is UTC-12. That is, as
long as there is still some place anywhere in the world where
the deadline has not yet passed, you are on time!
Author Guidelines
Authors may submit long papers (8 pages AAAI style plus up to
one page of references) or short papers (4 pages plus up to one
page of references). The type of paper must be indicated at
submission time. All papers, regardless of length, will be
reviewed against the standard criteria of relevance,
originality, significance, clarity, soundness, and are expected
to meet the same high standards set by ICAPS. Short papers may
be of narrower scope, for example by addressing a highly
specific issue, or proposing or evaluating a small, yet
important, extension of previous work or new idea. Overlength
papers will be rejected without review.
Authors making multiple submissions must ensure that each
submission has significant unique content. Papers submitted to
ICAPS 2021 may not be submitted to other conferences or journals
during the ICAPS 2021 review period nor may they be already
under review or published in other conferences or journals. We
expect that AAAI decisions will be available before the ICAPS
abstract submission deadline. If that does not happen, we will
make arrangements to permit resubmission. This year, the time
gap between submissions to major AI conferences is tighter than
usual. We had hoped to be able to both accept submissions of
papers rejected from AAAI and enable authors to submit papers
rejected from ICAPS to IJCAI 2021. However, the timeline is
simply too tight for us to do this and maintain the quality of
the ICAPS reviewing process. So while rejected papers from AAAI
should have decisions early enough to permit revision and
resubmission to ICAPS, we are unable to complete our reviews in
time for papers to be resubmitted to IJCAI. Specifically, as the
ICAPS 2021 notification date is after IJCAI 2021 full paper
submission dates, ICAPS authors will not be allowed to resubmit
their papers to IJCAI while they are under review at ICAPS,
because of single submission requirements.
Submission Instructions
All submissions will be made electronically, through the
EasyChair conference system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaps2021
Submitted PDF papers should be anonymous for double-blind
reviewing, adhere to the page limits of the relevant track
CFP/submission type (long or short), and follow the AAAI author
kit instructions for formatting:
https://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit21.zip
In addition to the submitted PDF paper, authors can submit
supplementary material (videos, technical proofs, additional
experimental results) for their paper. Please make sure that the
supporting material is also anonymized. Papers should be
self-contained; reviewers are encouraged, but not obligated, to
consider supporting material in their decisions.
Contact
For inquiries contact: ICAPS2021@easychair.org
Susanne Biundo
Robert P. Goldman
Michael Katz