The Holiday Inn - Crowne Plaza,
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Wednesday May 29th - Friday 31st, 1996
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19:00 - 21:00: REGISTRATION: (Holiday Inn -- Crowne Plaza Hotel)
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8:00 - 9:00: REGISTRATION: (Holiday Inn -- Crowne Plaza Hotel)
9.00 - 9:05: WELCOME: Brian Drabble, University of Edinburgh.
9:05 - 9:15: OPENING SPEECH: Earl Sacerdoti, Copernicus Group.
9:15 - 10:00: INVITED SPEAKER:
"Deduction Based Refinement Planning", Werner Stephen and Susanne Biundo.
"Using Loops in Decision-Theoretic Refinement Planners", Richard Goodwin.
10:50 - 11:10: BREAK
11:10 - 12:25: TECHNICAL SESSION 2: Uncertainty ,Session Chair: Steve Hanks
"Controlling Deliberation with the Success Probability in a Dynamic Environment", Seiji Yamada.
"Decompositions of Markov Chains for Reasoning about External Change in Planners", Jim Blythe.
"Modelling Probabilistic Actions for Practical Decision Theoretic Planning", AnHai Doan.
12:30 - 14:00: LUNCH
14:00 - 17:00: "Technological Achievements of the DARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative" ,Session Chair: Don Roberts.
"The DARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative:" Nort Fowler, Rome Laboratory.
Planning and Data Bases...
"Building a Planner for Information Gathering: A Report from the Trenches",
Craig Knoblock.
Scheduling...
"ITAS: A Portable Interactive Transportation Scheduling Tool Using a
Search Engine Generated from Formal Specifications", Mark Burstein and
Douglas Smith.
Planning Ontologies...
15.30 - 15.50 BREAK:
Simulation...
Mixed Initiative and User Interfaces...
"The Initiative Today and Plans for the Future", Tom Garvey, DARPA.
17.00 Close of Day
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"Planning Experiments: Resolving Interactions between Two Planning Spaces",
Yolanda Gil.
"A Candidate Set based Analysis of Subgoal Interactions in Conjunctive
Goal Planning", Subbarao Kambhampati.
10:35 - 10:55: BREAK
10:55 - 12:35: TECHNICAL SESSION 6: Search Control
,Matt Ginsberg
"A Heuristic Estimator for Means Ends Analysis in Planning",
Drew McDermott.
"Least Commitment Action Selection",
Marc Friedman and Daniel S. Weld.
"Flaw Selection Strategies for Value Directed Planning",
Mike Williamson and Steve Hanks.
"Suspending Recursion in Causal Link Planning",
David E. Smith and Mark A. Peot
12:35 - 2:00: LUNCH
2:00 - 3:00: INVITED PANEL:
3:00 - 3:50 TECHNICAL SESSION 7: Scheduling I,
Session Chair: Howard Beck
"A Cooperative Repair Method for a Distributed Scheduling System",
Daniel E. Neiman and Victor R. Lesser.
"A Constraint Satisfaction Approach to Makespan Scheduling",
Cheng-Chung Cheng and Stephen F. Smith.
3:50 - 4:10: BREAK
4:10 - 5:25: TECHNICAL SESSION 8: Scheduling II
,Session Chair: Steve Smith
"A Discipline for Reactive Scheduling",
G. Kelleher and J.E. Spragg.
"Comparing Heuristic, Evolutionary and Local Search Approaches to Scheduling",
Soraya Rana, Adele E. Howe et al.
"Algorithms for Solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSPs)",
Gadi Solotorevsky and Ehud Gudes.
17.00 Close of Day
19.30 - 22.00: CONFERENCE DINNER, Great Hall, Holiday Inn -- Crowne Plaza Hotel, Edinburgh.
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9:45 - 10.35: TECHNICAL SESSION 9: Representation - Planning
,Session Chair: Sam Steel
"Expressive Planning and Explicit Knowledge"
Robert P. Goldman and Mark S. Boddy
"Planning for Manufacturing Workpieces by Storing, Indexing and Replaying
Planning Decisions", Hector Munoz-Avila and Frank Weberskirch.
10:35 - 10:55: BREAK
10:55 - 12:35: TECHNICAL SESSION 10: Representation - Domain
,Session Chair: Drew McDermott
"Modelling Planning Tasks",
Leliane Barros, Andre Valente and Richard Benjamins.
"Computing Parameter Domains as an Aid to Planning",
Alfonso Gerevini and Lenhart Schubert.
"Intelligent Tools for Planning Knowledge Base Development and Verification",
Steve Chien.
"Planning While Learning Operators",
Xuemei Wang.
12:30 - 2:00: LUNCH
2:00 - 3:00: INVITED PANEL:
3:00 - 3:50: TECHNICAL SESSION 11: Execution I
,Session Chair: Reid Simmons
"Local Planning of Ongoing Activities",
Micheal Beetz and Drew McDermott.
"A Procedural Knowledge Approach to Task-level Control",
Karen L. Myers.
3:50 - 4:10: BREAK
4:10 - 5:25: TECHNICAL SESSION 12: Execution II
,Session Chair: Louise Pryor
"A Planner for Exploratory Data Analysis",
Robert St.Amant and Paul R. Cohen.
"Modularity Issues in Reactive Planning",
R. James Firby.
"Segmenting Reactions to Improve the Behaviour of a Planning/Reacting Agent",
Micheal Wolverton and Richard Washington.
5:25 - 5:30: CLOSING ADDRESS
"Representing Plans as a Set of Constraints - the
"On-line Planning Simulation", Scott Anderson and Paul Cohen.
"Towards a Mixed Initiative Planning Assistant", George Ferguson, James Allen and Brad Miler.THURSDAY, MAY 30TH, 1996
FRIDAY, MAY 31ST, 1996