Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS)

Workshop program

The workshop will be held on Sunday, September 14th, 2008.

8:50 - 9:00 Introduction and welcome (Roman Barták)
9:00 - 10:00 LANGUAGES (chair: Simone Fratini)

The ANML Language [PDF]
David E. Smith, Jeremy Frank, William Cushing

Translating PDDL2.2. into a Constraint-based Variable/Value Language [PDF]
Sara Bernardini, David E. Smith

10:00 - 10:30 coffee break
10:30 - 11:30

LEARNING (chair: Roman Barták)

Extracting State Constraints from UML Planning Models [PDF]
Marcel Lira Gomes, Tiago Stegun Vaquero, José Reinaldo Silva, Flavio Tonidandel

Generation of Macro-operators via Investigation of Actions Dependencies in Plans [PDF]
LukᚠChrpa

11:30 - 12:30

PLANNING (chair: Derek Long)

Hierarchical path planning for multi-size agents in heterogenous environments [PDF]
Daniel Harabor, Adi Botea

Combining Domain-Independent Planning and HTN Planning: The Duet Planner [PDF]
Alfonso Gerevini, Ugur Kuter, Dana Nau, Alessandro Saetti, Nathaniel Waisbrot

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00

VALIDATION AND BENCHMARKING (chair: Tiago Stegun Vaquero)

Generating Random Datasets for Dynamic Resource Scheduling Problems [PDF]
Wolfgang Haas, William S. Havens

Validation and Verification Issues in a Timeline-based Planning System [PDF]
Amedeo Cesta, Alberto Finzi, Simone Fratini, Andrea Orlandini, Enrico Tronci

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00

PANEL DISCUSSION (Past, present, and future of ICKEPS)
Roman Barták [PDF], Stefan Edelkamp [PDF], Derek Long [PDF], Tiago Stegun Vaquero [PDF]

Related materials:
Suggestions for the Knowledge Engineering Competition [PDF]
Tiago Stegun Vaquero, Flavio Tonidandel, José Reinaldo Silva;

All papers in a single ZIP file are also available for download.