Freiburg, Germany
June 11-16, 2011
21st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
Freiburg

Detailed Schedule

Sat, June 11 2011

Event
AM Doctoral Consortium
Lunch Break
PM Doctoral Consortium
Evening Doctoral Consortium Dinner

Sun, June 12 2011

Workshops Tutorials
AM 1 HDIP KEPS MCTS GAPRec A Survey of Suboptimal Search Algorithms
(Jordan Thayer and Wheeler Ruml)
AM 2 Using Solution Length Estimates In Heuristic Search
(Jordan Thayer and Wheeler Ruml)
Lunch Break
PM 1 HDIP KEPS MCTS Decision Diagrams in Automated Planning and Scheduling
(Scott Sanner)
PM 2 Problem Solving with Model Checking Techniques
(Michael Weber and Jaco van de Pol)

Mon, June 13 2011

Workshops Tutorials
AM 1 PAL SPARK COPLAS VVPS Translation-based approaches to conformant and contingent planning
(Héctor Palacios and Alexandre Albore)
AM 2 Petri nets and their relation to planning
(Blai Bonet and Patrik Haslum)
Lunch Break
PM 1 PAL SPARK COPLAS VVPS Open Source Solutions for Motion Planning
(Sachin Chitta)
PM 2 Introduction to Planning Domain Modeling in RDDL
(Scott Sanner)
19:30 Opening Reception

Tue, June 14 2011

08:00-20:00 Registration
08:45-09:00 Opening Remarks
09:00-10:00 Invited Talk: Jason Williams
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:10 Session Ia: Heuristics for Planning
  • Jörg Hoffmann
    Where Ignoring Delete Lists Works, Part II: Causal Graphs
  • Erez Karpas, Michael Katz and Shaul Markovitch
    When Optimal is Just Not Good Enough: Learning Fast Informative Action Cost Partitionings
  • Jussi Rintanen
    Heuristics for Planning with SAT and Expressive Action Definitions
  • Amanda Coles and Andrew Coles
    LPRPG-P: Relaxed Plan Heuristics for Planning with Preferences
Session Ib: Markov Decision Processes
  • Andrey Kolobov, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld and Hector Geffner
    Heuristic Search for Generalized Stochastic Shortest Path MDPs
  • Boris Lesner and Bruno Zanuttini
    Efficient Policy Construction for MDPs Represented in Probabilistic PDDL
  • Pascal Poupart, Kee-Eung Kim and Dongho Kim
    Closing the Gap: Improved Bounds on Optimal POMDP Solutions
  • Paul Weng
    Markov Decision Processes with Ordinal Rewards: Reference Point-Based Preferences
12:10-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:35 Session IIa: Plan Search Engineering
  • Rong Zhou and Eric A. Hansen
    Dynamic State-Space Partitioning in External-Memory Graph Search
  • Damian Sulewski, Stefan Edelkamp and Peter Kissmann
    Exploiting the Computational Power of the Graphics Card: Optimal State Space Planning on the GPU
  • Jesse Hoey and Marek Grzes
    Distributed Control of Situated Assistance in Large Domains with Many Tasks
  • Blai Bonet
    Abstraction Heuristics Extended with Counting Abstractions
    (short paper)
Session IIb: Generalized Planning
  • Anders Jonsson and Michael Rovatsos
    Scaling Up Multiagent Planning: A Best-Response Approach
  • Jonas Kvarnström
    Planning for Loosely Coupled Agents using Partial Order Forward-Chaining
  • Siddharth Srivastava, Neil Immerman, Shlomo Zilberstein and Tianjiao Zhang
    Directed Search for Generalized Plans Using Classical Planners
  • Alfonso E. Gerevini, Fabio Patrizi and Alessandro Saetti
    An Effective Approach to Realizing Planning Programs
    (short paper)
15:35-16:05 Coffee Break
16:05-17:30 Results IPC
  • Uncertainty Competition
    Scott Sanner and Sungwook Yoon
  • Deterministic Competition
    Ángel García Olaya, Carlos Linares López and Sergio Jiménez Celorrio
  • Learning Competition
    Sergio Jiménez Celorrio, Amanda Coles and Andrew Coles
17:30-20:00
(open end)
DC Posters & System Demos

Wed, June 15 2011

08:30-18:00 Registration
09:00-10:00 Invited Talk: Pascal Van Hentenryck
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:10 Session IIIa: Applications I
  • Amanda Coles, Andrew Coles, Allan Clark and Stephen Gilmore
    Cost-Sensitive Concurrent Planning under Duration Uncertainty for Service-Level Agreements
  • Minh Do, Kazumichi Okajima, Serdar Uckun, Fumio Hasegawa, Yukihiro Kawano, Koji Tanaka, Lara Crawford, Ying Zhang and Aki Ohashi
    Online Planning for a Material Control System for Liquid Crystal Display Manufacturing
  • José E. Flórez, Álvaro Torralba Arias de Reyna, Javier García, Carlos Linares López, Ángel García-Olaya and Daniel Borrajo
    Planning Multi-Modal Transportation Problems
  • Emili Hernandez, Marc Carreras and Pere Ridao
    A Path Planning Algorithm for an AUV Guided with Homotopy Classes
Session IIIb: Frontiers in Planning
  • Jordan T. Thayer, Austin Dionne and Wheeler Ruml
    Learning Inadmissible Heuristics during Search
  • Alan Fern and Paul Lewis
    Ensemble Monte-Carlo Planning: An Empirical Study
  • Alexandre Albore, Miquel Ramirez and Hector Geffner
    Effective Heuristics and Belief Tracking for Planning with Incomplete Information
  • Nir Lipovetzky and Hector Geffner
    Searching for Plans with Carefully Designed Probes
12:10-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:40 Session IV: Best Papers
  • Maria Fox, Derek Long and Daniele Magazzeni
    Automatic Construction of Efficient Multiple Battery Usage Policies
    (best paper)
  • Léon Planken, Mathijs de Weerdt and Roman van der Krogt
    Computing All-Pairs Shortest Paths by Leveraging Low Treewidth
    (honorable mention for best student paper)
  • Raghuram Ramanujan and Bart Selman
    Trade-Offs in Sampling-Based Adversarial Planning
    (honorable mention for best student paper)
  • Javier Velez, Garrett Hemann, Albert S. Huang, Ingmar Posner and Nicholas Roy
    Planning to Perceive: Exploiting Mobility For Robust Object Detection
    (best student paper)
15:40-16:10 Coffee Break
16:10-18:10 Community Meeting
(includes Best Dissertation Talk)
20:00 Banquet

Thu, June 16 2011

08:30-16:45 Registration
09:00-10:00 Invited Talk: Michael P. Wellman
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:15 Session Va: Applications II
  • Hankz Hankui Zhuo, Qiang Yang, Rong Pan and Lei Li
    Cross-Domain Action-Model Acquisition for Planning Via Web Search
  • Roni Stern, Rami Puzis and Ariel Felner
    Potential Search: A Bounded-Cost Search Algorithm
  • Julie Porteous, Jonathan Teutenberg, David Pizzi and Marc Cavazza
    Visual Programming of Plan Dynamics Using Constraints and Landmarks
  • Richard Hoshino and Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi
    The Multi-Round Balanced Traveling Tournament Problem
Session Vb: Limits and Possibilities
  • Christer Bäckström and Peter Jonsson
    Limits for Compact Representations of Plans
  • Aldo Porco, Alejandro Machado and Blai Bonet
    Automatic Polytime Reductions of NP Problems into a Fragment of STRIPS
  • Blai Bonet and Julio Castillo
    A Complete Algorithm for Generating Landmarks
    (short paper)
  • Thomas Keller and Patrick Eyerich
    A Polynomial All Outcome Determinization for Probabilistic Planning
    (short paper)
  • Chris Mansley, Ari Weinstein and Michael L. Littman
    Sample-Based Planning for Continuous Action Markov Decision Processes
    (short paper)
12:15-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:15 Session VIa: Automated Scheduling
  • Maliheh Aramon Bajestani and J. Christopher Beck
    Scheduling an Aircraft Repair Shop
  • Michael D. Moffitt and Gernot E. Günther
    Scalable Scheduling for Hardware-Accelerated Functional Verification
  • Gilles Simonin, Rodolphe Giroudeau, Jean-Claude König and Benoit Darties
    Theoretical Aspects of Scheduling Coupled-Tasks in the Presence of Compatibility Graph
Session VIb: Incomplete Information
  • Christopher Weber and Daniel Bryce
    Planning and Acting in Incomplete Domains
  • Son Thanh To, Tran Cao Son and Enrico Pontelli
    Contingent Planning as AND/OR Forward Search with Disjunctive Representation
  • Stephen Cresswell and Peter Gregory
    Generalised Domain Model Acquisition from Action Traces
15:15-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:25 Session VIIa: Real-Time Planning
  • Debdeep Banerjee and Patrik Haslum
    Partial-Order Support-Link Scheduling
    (short paper)
  • Carlos Hernández and Jorge A. Baier
    Fast Subgoaling for Pathfinding Via Real-Time Search
    (short paper)
Session VIIb: Applications III
  • Avitan Gefen and Ronen I. Brafman
    The Minimal Seed Set Problem
    (short paper)
  • Gian Diego Tipaldi and Kai O. Arras
    Planning Problems for Social Robots
    (short paper)
16:25-16:30 Closing Remarks