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Weekly Planning Update
by Fares Alaboud 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

Hi everyone, Here's an intro to this week's planning meeting, which takes place as usual on Thursday from 2-3pm: *Room: *S6.06 *Speaker:* Liana Marinescu *Topic: *More numeric uncertainty! This time it's not just Gaussians If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me an email. I am away this week so I will not be at my desk as usual if you have any questions :( And my apologies for not being able to attend the meeting this week. For reference, please find the schedule for this term below. *Please note, if your name is on the list, I will email you two weeks before your turn to remind you, and to get a topic from you.* *Schedule for This Term* *Date* *Room* *Speaker* January 26th S6.06 Daniele Magazzeni (cancelled) February 2nd Fares Alaboud February 9th S3.39 Andrew Coles February 16th *Cancelled* *due* *to* *IJCAI* *deadline** (**good* *luck**!)* February 23rd *S**6.06* Emre Savas March 2nd Amanda Coles March 9th Wiktor Piotrowski *March 16th* *Liana Marinescu* March 23rd Tanja Daub March 30th Bram Ridder April 6th *TBC* *TBC* April 13th *TBC* *TBC* April 20th *TBC* Andrea Micheli (from Cimatti) April 27th *TBC* Morteza Lahijanian (from Uni of Oxford) See you next week! *Regards,* *Fares Alaboud* PhD Student @ Informatics Planning Group faresalaboud.me

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FW: Weekly Planning Update
by Black, Elizabeth 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

Hi everyone, You may have received this email already, apologies for resending if you have, it said it got stuck at the mailing list server but it’s not there anymore. Anyway, I’m resending just in case. And apologies, I don’t think I’ll be able to make it today. Liz -- Dr Elizabeth Black Senior Lecturer | Agents and Intelligent Systems Group | Department of Informatics | Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences | King's College London | Strand Building S6.21 | Strand | London | WC2R 2LS Tel: 020 7848 2694 | Email: elizabeth.black(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:elizabeth.black@kcl.ac.uk> Website: https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/elizabeth.black/ From: Fares Alaboud [mailto:fares.alaboud@kcl.ac.uk] Sent: 29 March 2017 22:46 To: planning-inf Mailman List <planning-inf(a)mailman.kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Weekly Planning Update Hi everyone, Sorry for the late email! Here's an intro to this week's planning meeting, which takes place as usual on Thursday from 2-3pm: Room: S6.06 Topic: How Randomness Can Improve Planning Performance, ICAPS 2014 Video (let's hope the speakers work) Notes: Those less familiar with LAMA and dual openlist search might want to read this paper<http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICAPS/ICAPS14/paper/view/7943/0> before the meeting. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me an email or you can find me at my desk just opposite S6.11, it's the one with a blue rubber duck! For reference, please find the schedule for this term below. Please note, if your name is on the list, I will email you two weeks before your turn to remind you, and to get a topic from you. Schedule for This Term Date Room Speaker January 26th S6.06 Daniele Magazzeni (cancelled) February 2nd Fares Alaboud February 9th S3.39 Andrew Coles February 16th Cancelled due to IJCAI deadline (good luck!) February 23rd S6.06 Emre Savas March 2nd Amanda Coles March 9th Wiktor Piotrowski March 16th Liana Marinescu March 23rd Tanja Daub March 30th Bram Ridder ICAPS 2014 Video April 6th TBC TBC April 13th TBC Elizabeth Black April 20th TBC Andrea Micheli (from Cimatti) April 27th TBC Morteza Lahijanian (from Uni of Oxford) See you on Thursday! Regards, Fares Alaboud PhD Student @ Informatics Planning Group faresalaboud.me<http://faresalaboud.me/>

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Weekly Planning Meeting
by Fares Alaboud 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hi everyone, This week, we will not be having a meeting due to quite a few of the group being unavailable. For reference, please find the schedule for this term below. *Please note, if your name is on the list, I will email you two weeks before your turn to remind you, and to get a topic from you.* *Schedule for This Term* *Date* *Room* *Speaker* January 26th S6.06 Daniele Magazzeni (cancelled) February 2nd Fares Alaboud February 9th S3.39 Andrew Coles February 16th *Cancelled* *due* *to* *IJCAI* *deadline** (**good* *luck**!)* February 23rd *S**6.06* Emre Savas March 2nd Amanda Coles March 9th Wiktor Piotrowski March 16th Liana Marinescu *March 23rd* *Cancelled* March 30th Bram Ridder April 6th *TBC* *TBC* April 13th *TBC* Elizabeth Black April 20th *TBC* Andrea Micheli (from Cimatti) April 27th S3.05 Morteza Lahijanian (from Uni of Oxford) If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me an email, or you can find me at my desk just opposite S6.11 (it's the one with a blue rubber duck!) See you next week! *Regards,* *Fares Alaboud* PhD Student @ Informatics Planning Group faresalaboud.me

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Weekly Planning Update
by Fares Alaboud 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Hi everyone, Here's an intro to this week's planning meeting, which takes place as usual on Thursday from 2-3pm: *Room: *S6.06 *Speaker:* Wiktor Pitrowski *Topic: *Automated Planning with Goal Reasoning in Minecraft For reference, please find the schedule for this term below. *Please note, if your name is on the list, I will email you two weeks before your turn to remind you, and to get a topic from you.* If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me an email or visit me at my desk (it's the one with a blue rubber duck just opposite S6.11). *Schedule for This Term* *Date* *Room* *Speaker* January 26th S6.06 Daniele Magazzeni (cancelled) February 2nd Fares Alaboud February 9th S3.39 Andrew Coles February 16th *Cancelled* *due* *to* *IJCAI* *deadline** (**good* *luck**!)* February 23rd *S**6.06* Emre Savas March 2nd Amanda Coles *March 9th* *Wiktor Piotrowski* March 16th Liana Marinescu March 23rd Tanja Daub March 30th Bram Ridder April 6th *TBC* *TBC* April 13th *TBC* *TBC* April 20th *TBC* Andrea Micheli (from Cimatti) April 27th *TBC* Morteza Lahijanian (from Uni of Oxford) See you on Thursday! *Regards,* *Fares Alaboud* PhD Student @ Informatics Planning Group faresalaboud.me

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Fwd: Fwd: Deadline extension - ICAPS 2017 PlanSOpt Workshop
by Amanda Coles 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Hi All, Christian has contacted us to ask if anyone has any work relevant to this workshop (which I'm sure will be an interesting one :)) that they would like to submit. If you do have something I would encourage you to consider submitting, Amanda -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Fwd: Deadline extension - ICAPS 2017 PlanSOpt Workshop Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:16:33 +0000 From: Christian Muise <cjmuise(a)mit.edu> To: Andrew Coles <andrew.coles(a)kcl.ac.uk>, Amanda Coles <amanda.coles(a)kcl.ac.uk> Any chance you have students over there with some appropriate work for the PlanSOpt workshop? We're allowing previously published papers, and will only put up an extended abstract to avoid copyright (in case that helps). ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Florian Pommerening <florian.pommerening(a)unibas.ch <mailto:florian.pommerening@unibas.ch>> Date: Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:26 AM Subject: Deadline extension - ICAPS 2017 PlanSOpt Workshop To: <planning-list(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:planning-list@googlegroups.com>>, <search-list(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:search-list@googlegroups.com>>, <icaps-conference(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:icaps-conference@googlegroups.com>> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.] *The submission deadline is extended to March 17th* Planning, Search, and Optimization (PlanSOpt) The field of AI planning shares many parallels with a diverse range of optimization areas, such as mathematical programming, constraint programming, and stochastic optimization. However, the potential integration of concepts and techniques used in these fields remains largely unexplored. For instance, one of the most popular strategies for solving planning problems is A* search, which is similar in many ways to a branch-and-bound strategy that is predominantly used to solve mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) problems. This opens the possibility of adapting several auxiliary methods to speed up search (including, e.g., merging, landmarks, and cutting planes algorithms) from one area to the other. Topics and Objectives In this workshop, we aim to explore the similarities and differences of AI and optimization, and ways that we can leverage the methodologies from one field to the other. An important part of this workshop is extending our knowledge of closely related fields, and positioning ourselves as a community to introduce researchers of these fields to AI planning concepts. There have been some pioneering efforts at using optimization techniques for planning; notably in compilation approaches to MILP and/or constraint programming. We welcome submissions on these topics and more, including (but not limited to): - formulating the heuristic generation and selection as an optimization problem; - using MILP algorithms and techniques for efficient computation of heuristics in classical planning; - hybridization of optimization techniques (e.g,. linear, mixed integer linear, constraint, nonlinear programming, and satisfiability modulo theory) to handle planning problems involving a combination of both logical and numeric constraints; - integration of existing optimization techniques with planning to improve search performance. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers in AI planning, search, and optimization to investigate novel problems and solution approaches, as well as to discuss opportunities and challenges arising when applying optimization to planning and vice-versa. We encourage applications of optimization technology to planning/search problems, applications of traditional planning/search technology (e.g., variations of A* search) to optimization problems, and hybrid approaches that combine planning and optimization. This workshop is complementary to HSDIP, since the topic of heuristic search is highly relevant for the optimization community. However, PlanSOpt will focus more deeply on the language, ideas and methods from optimization fields. The workshop will therefore be more accessible to conference attendees from the general optimization community, and will provide an excellent entry into AI planning topics. Submissions Please format submissions in AAAI style (see instructions in the Author Kit at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit17.zip <https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aaai.…>) and keep them to at most 8 pages excluding references. Authors considering submitting to the workshop papers rejected from the main conference, please ensure you do your utmost to address the comments given by ICAPS reviewers. Please do not submit papers that are already accepted for the main conference to the workshop. Submissions should be made through EasyChair at the following URL: - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plansopt17 <https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychai…> Deadlines and Dates Submission deadline: March 17th, 2017 Notification: April 14th, 2017 Camera-ready version: May 10th, 2017 Workshop: June 19th or 20th, 2017 Every submission will be reviewed by three members of the program committee according to the usual criteria such as relevance to the workshop, significance of the contribution, and technical quality. The review process will be single-blind: the authors' identity will be known to the reviewers, but not vice versa. Submissions sent to other conferences are allowed if this does not interfere with their submission rules. Submissions under double-blind review in another conference must be anonymous. In particular, submissions of papers under revision in IJCAI17 must be anonymous. The workshop is meant to be an open and inclusive forum, and we encourage papers that report on work in progress or that do not fit the mold of a typical conference paper. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. Authors must register for the ICAPS main conference in order to attend the workshop. There will be no separate workshop-only registration. Workshop Organizers Andre A. Cire, University of Toronto, Canada Christina Burt, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany Florian Pommerening, University of Basel, Switzerland Christian Muise, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

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