Publisher's Synopsis
The annual ICAPS conference series was formed in 2003 through the merger of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling and the European Conference on Planning. ICAPS continues the traditional high standards of AIPS and ECP as an archival forum for new research in the field of automated planning and scheduling.
The 64 papers included in this volume were selected from a record 187 submissions, including submissions to special tracks in Robotics and Novel Applications. To review the papers, three international program committees were formed -- one for the main conference track, and one for each of the special tracks -- ensuring reviewers had relevant experience and applied relevant criteria to the papers submitted. The result is a broad range of papers representing the latest advances in the eld of automated planning and scheduling. Thee range of topics covered includes: search and constraint reasoning in planning and scheduling; probabilistic planning models and algorithms; integrated frameworks for planning, scheduling and execution; the use of learning methods; multiagent planning and scheduling; planning and scheduling for singleand multi-robot scenarios; and others, including the application of planning techniques to novel real-world problems.
