International Planning Competition (IPC)

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The International Planning Competition (IPC) was created in 1998 within the framework of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), to set a common ground for comparing different planning techniques. Nowadays the IPC is considered a reference source when building a planner and most of the new planning techniques presented at ICAPS are evaluated regarding the languages, benchmarks and metrics defined in the competition. However, several critiques have been raised concerning the necessity and usefulness of several aspects of the competition.

Given the relevance of IPC and continuing with the lineage of the workshops organized at ICAPS 2003 and 2007, this workshop aims to review the current status of the IPC, and to help to determine/sketch/prepare the forthcoming competition, the Eight International Planning Competition. This workshop seeks submissions of contributed work in the following topics:

• IPC Format:
  • Review/criticize the existing tracks. What worked, what did not, and what needs to be changed/improved in each track.
  • Proposals for new competition tracks, e..g., an application track? a Planning and Execution track?
  • IPC Languages: Review of current representation languages, assessment, comparison with other modeling languages and proposals for possible extensions.
• IPC Evaluation:
  • Domains and problems:Review/criticize the current domains, with respect to their complexity, closeness to real-world applications, whether or not the current problem sets are adequate in representing the technical challenges in different classes... Proposal for new domains, particularly ones that can capture critical constraints in real-world applications.
  • Evaluation Criteria: Review/criticize the current evaluation approach and proposals for changes/standardization.
• IPC Results:
  • IPC-2011: Review of the performance of different types of planners (e.g. satisfiability, state-space heuristic, portfolios) with respect to various types of domains. Identifying problem structures that are suitable for different types of planner.
  • IPC from 1998 to 2011: Review of the evolution of planners throughout the competition history. What kind of planner do we seek? Can it be proven that a significant progress has been achieved?

Accepted Papers

• Advances in BDD Search: Filtering, Partitioning, and Bidirectionally Blind
  Stefan Edelkamp, Peter Kissmann and Álvaro Torralba
• The Academic Advising Planning Domain
  Joshua Guerin, Josiah Hanna, Libby Knouse, Nicholas Mattei and Judy Goldsmith
• Mining IPC-2011 Results
  Isabel Cenamor, Tomás de La Rosa and Fernando Fernández
• How Good is the Performance of the Best Portfolio in IPC-2011?
  Sergio Núñez, Daniel Borrajo and Carlos Linares López
• A Multi-Agent Extension of PDDL3.1
  Daniel Laszlo Kovacs
• Type Problem in Domain Description! or, Outsiders' Suggestions for PDDL Improvement
  Robert Goldman and Peter Keller
• Leveraging Classical Planners through Translations
  Guy Shani, Ronen Brafman and Ran Taig

Workshop Schedule

Submission Procedure

Paper submission is in PDF only. Please format submissions in AAAI style. Refer to the author instructions on the AAAI web site for detailed formatting instructions and LaTeX style files. Final papers will be in the same format, keep them to at most 8+1 pages long (meaning 8 pages plus 1 extra page containing only references). We also welcome the submission of short position papers (at most 4+1 pages long).

Papers must be submitted by April 1st, 2012. All ICAPS deadlines refer to 23:59 in the UTC-12 time zone. (So if there is still some place in the world where the deadline has not yet passed, you are on time.)

Paper Submissions should be made through the workshop EasyChair web site https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icapswipc2012

Important Dates

• Papers Submission: April 1st, 2012
• Notifications of acceptance: April 23rd, 2012
• Camera-Ready Paper Submissions: May 15th, 2012
• Workshop Date: June 25-26th, 2012

Organizers

• Amanda Coles, King's College London, UK
• Andrew Coles, King's College London, UK
• Angel García Olaya, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN
• Sergio Jiménez. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN
• Carlos Linares López, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN
• Scott Sanner, NICTA and the ANU, AUSTRALIA

Program Committee

• Blai Bonet, Universidad Simón Bolívar
• Daniel Borrajo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Stefan Edelkamp, University of Bremen
• Alan Fern, Oregon State University
• Héctor Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• Alfonso Gerevini, Universitá degli Studi di Brescia
• Malte Helmert, University of Basel
• Jorg Hoffmann, INRIA
• Derek Long, King's College London
• Mausam, University of Washington
• Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield
• Héctor Palacios, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Prasad Tadepalli, Oregon State University
• Sungwook Yoon, PARC