CALL FOR PAPERS AAAI-11 Workshop on Generalized Planning August 8th, 2011, San Francisco, USA http://rbr.cs.umass.edu/GenPlan11/ The goal of this workshop is to explore ways of increasing the scope and scalability of automated planning by constructing and utilizing plans with rich representations and control structures. We plan to bring together researchers interested in new action and plan representations, as well as in synthesis, learning and analysis of plans. GenPlan11 follows the very successful GenPlan09 workshop that was held in conjunction with ICAPS. An additional objective of this workshop is to foster a greater exchange of ideas between many areas of research that these problems are connected with. These include knowledge representation, abstraction, learning, inductive logic programming, hierarchical decision making paradigms such as partial policies and HTNs, program synthesis, automated service composition, as well as plan verification and model checking in AI, in addition to the various forms of automated planning. TOPICS Potential topics include but are not limited to: - generating plans with loops - generating parametrized plans - instantiating parametrized plans - evaluation of generalized plans - learning macro actions - reasoning and planning with complex actions - learning and planning with domain control knowledge - learning and planning with partial policies - automated service composition - plan verification - model checking and abstraction for planning - program synthesis - generating robust or partial schedules IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline April 22, 2011 Author Notification May 13, 2011 Final Version May 27, 2011 Workshop Date August 8, 2011 WORKSHOP FORMAT The workshop program will include technical presentations, discussion session(s), and a poster session, depending on the participation. We will also have invited talks by three prominent researchers: Alessandro Cimatti, Hector Levesque and Stuart Russell. Further details will be posted at the workshop website. PAPER SUBMISSION We invite technical papers (up to 8 pages), extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) and papers with clear formulations of open problems and potential approaches (up to 4 pages). We invite submissions including works in progress and mature work that may have been published at other research venues. Submission of previously published work may be in the form of a resubmission of a previous paper, or a position/survey paper that overviews and cites a body of work. Paper submissions should be in PDF format and typeset in the AAAI style (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). Paper submissions and queries should be emailed to Siddharth Srivastava with "GenPlan11" in the subject. Please note that if accepted, at least one of the authors will have to register and attend the workshop. AAAI-11 student volunteers will be given complimentary technical registrations. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eyal Amir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Jorge Baier, Catholic University of Chile, Chile Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA Adi Botea, NICTA and Australian National University, Australia Amanda Coles, University of Strathclyde, UK Christian Fritz, Palo Alto Research Center, USA Hector Geffner, ICREA, Spain Robert Goldman, SIFT, USA Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University, USA Roni Khardon, Tufts University, USA Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen University of Technology, Germany Karen Myers, SRI International, USA Bernhard Nebel, University of Freiburg, Germany Sebastian Sardina, RMIT University, Australia Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto, Canada Siddharth Srivastava, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA (Chair) Paolo Traverso, FBK, Center for Information Technology - IRST, Italy Shlomo Zilberstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA