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Swimathon Sweepstake
by Black, Elizabeth 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

Hello planning group I'm doing the swimathon again this year. On Saturday 8 April I'll be swimming 2.5 km to raise money for Marie Curie, who provide care and support for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. www.mariecurie.org.uk<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marie…> As part of my (very late) fundraising efforts, I'm running a sweepstake. Each entry is £2. If you choose the time that's closest to my swim time on the event day, you win half the cash from the sweepstake prize pot, the other half will help to fund Marie Curie Nurses. To enter, add your name and time (to the nearest minute) to this google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ET7rpaMHVFvqqsdMqomjX_Svh9EwW0KZ26fOYkc…<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.goo…> and I'll collect the entry fee from you when I see you. Or to sponsor me, you can use this link: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/swimathon-2017-liz-black<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.just…> Thanks! 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/

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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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Weekly Planning Update (Please Read Topic)
by Fares Alaboud 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Hi everyone, We have a couple of additional external speakers this term joining us to speak at the planning meetings later in April (thank you Dan for inviting them!), and you can find the details below in the schedule. Here's this week's planning meeting, which as usual takes place on Thursday from 2-3pm: *Room: *S6.06 *Speaker:* Amanda Coles *Topic: *Amanda will be doing a live demo of how to run planners using scripts, how to use gnuplot to display results, and generally about how to do evaluation for papers on planning. As this will be an interactive session people should bring with them, a laptop preferably running linux (install a VM using VirtualBox if necessary), or failing that a laptop from which they can ssh (e.g. a MAC would be fine, or as a last resort windows with either cygwin or putty installed). 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** 2**nd* *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 -- Regards, Fares Alaboud

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Weekly Planning Update
by Fares Alaboud 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hi everyone, To all those who submitted to IJCAI, best of luck! Please find this week's planning meeting information below: *Room: *S6.06 *Speaker:* Emre Savas *Topic: "*The complexity of planning with infinite domain action parameters is undecidable. State-of-the-art heuristic approaches are only concerned with action parameters that takes their values from finite domains. There is relatively little work exploring the problem of planning with infinite domain action parameters. We recently explored the problem, using an extension of the TRPG heuristic to guide search in a space of partially developed plans, in which the values of these action parameters (which we call control parameters) are managed by accumulating constraints. In this work, we observe that these parameters cause helpful action distortion when there are producer-consumer behaviours affecting resource transfer with control parameters. It is possible to address the problem in search (for linear relations), relying on the solution of multiple linear programs (LPs), but this is highly costly. In this work, we examine the problem in detail and introduce a generalised RPG heuristic to tackle it. We introduce an alternative reachability analysis method to avoid helpful action distortion and propose an extension of the temporal relaxed planning graph (TRPG) heuristic to preserve its existing sophistication." 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* *S6.06* *Emre Savas* March 2nd Amanda Coles March 9th Wiktor Piotrowski March 16th Liana Marinescu March 23rd Tanja Daub March 30th Bram Ridder See you on Thursday! *Regards,* *Fares Alaboud* PhD Student @ Informatics Planning Group faresalaboud.me

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Weekly Planning Update
by Fares Alaboud 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Hi everyone, As we discussed in the planning meeting two weeks ago, it's a better idea to send updates every Tuesday instead of Friday. This is partially why I did not send updates last week, my apologies for that. *Please note, there is no meeting this week due to the IJCAI deadline on the 19th. Good luck! * 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 S6.06 Emre Savas March 2nd Amanda Coles March 9th Wiktor Piotrowski March 16th Liana Marinescu March 23rd Tanja Daub March 30th Bram Ridder See you next week! *Regards,* *Fares Alaboud* PhD Student in Artificial Intelligence faresalaboud.me Fares Alaboud -- Regards, Fares Alaboud

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FW: [core-seminars] CORE seminar - Wednesday 15th February 1pm, K6.63 Strand: Informational Principles of Embodied Cognition
by Magazzeni, Daniele 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Hi all, Please see below for an interesting CoRe seminar tomorrow. PS. This week I'm at a Dgastuhl workshop on Robotics and Autonomous Systems, and people are loving planning!!! :-) Dan From: Sklar, Elizabeth Sent: 13 February 2017 21:34 To: Miles, Simon <simon.miles(a)kcl.ac.uk>; Magazzeni, Daniele <daniele.magazzeni(a)kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Fw: [core-seminars] CORE seminar - Wednesday 15th February 1pm, K6.63 Strand: Informational Principles of Embodied Cognition The CoRe seminar this week, "Informational Principles of Embodied Cognition", by Prof Daniel Polani (Hertfordshire) may be of interest to AIS and Planning groups. Please share with your group mailing lists! /** dr elizabeth sklar reader in computer science head of centre for robotics research (core) director of data science msc programme dept of informatics and centre for robotics research, king's college london elizabeth.sklar(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:elizabeth.sklar@kcl.ac.uk> http://nms.kcl.ac.uk/elizabeth.sklar/ **/ ________________________________ From: core-seminars-bounces(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:core-seminars-bounces@kcl.ac.uk> <core-seminars-bounces(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:core-seminars-bounces@kcl.ac.uk>> on behalf of Matthew Howard <matthew.j.howard(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:matthew.j.howard@kcl.ac.uk>> Sent: 13 February 2017 19:07 Cc: LondonRoboticsNetwork(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:LondonRoboticsNetwork@googlegroups.com>; core-seminars Mailman List Subject: [core-seminars] CORE seminar - Wednesday 15th February 1pm, K6.63 Strand Dear all, This is to announce the next CORE seminar on Wednesday. Please see details of the talk below. Time: 15th February 2017, 1pm Place: K6.63, Strand Campus Speaker: Prof Daniel Polani Title: Informational Principles of Embodied Cognition Abstract: While Artificial Intelligence is widely pursued in the way as to achieve certain "intelligent" behaviours in various contexts, there is increasing evidence that it can profit significantly from being considered under the perspective of understanding what the fundamental laws of cognition are. The success of biological organisms under strong constraints on consumption of energy and resources as compared to artificially engineered intelligent systems which are quite generous in the available resources indicate that there is a gap in understanding that awaits to be closed. A key in this appears to be the judicious use of embodiment and of informational resources. Especially the formalism of Shannon information has increasingly crystallized as an immensely powerful concept. Under this perspective, cognition, it turns out, is governed by mathematical laws, invariants and principles which constrain the decision-making of organisms and agents and which can be elegantly expressed in informational terms. This opens a fresh route to analyse, understand and synthesize principles of cognitive systems and their evolution. The talk will present principles, and applications to understanding the origins and evolution of cognition, consequences for cognitive organization and observations, clarify the role of embodiment in cognitive processing, and finally show some examples how these principles can be used for the generation and even discovery of new principles of autonomous behaviour in agents. Biography: Daniel Polani is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Hertfordshire. Interested in the principles behind cognition for the purpose of understanding biological and Artificial Intelligence, his main efforts concentrate on using - especially - information-theoretic principles for studying (multi-)agent and robotic systems, constructing methods for generating behaviour intrinsically and "naturally emerging" mechanisms which produce plausibly "intelligent" behaviour in artificial agents with limited sets of prior assumptions. One of his domains of particular inspiration is provided by the complexity of the RoboCup domain. He is PI in the Horizon 2020 consortia socSMCs on studying social sensorimotor contingencies in a principled way, and WiMUST, responsible for mission planning in swarms of autonomous robotic geosurveillance submarines. He is currently president-elect of the RoboCup Federation, and associate editor in a number of journals, including JAAMAS, Advances in Complex Systems, Frontiers in Computational Intelligence. The schedule for future talks can be found here: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kcl.a… Subscribe to the CORE seminars Google calendar to have events appear directly in your calendar app: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goog…; The Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences at King's College London has a Code of Conduct which we expect participants at our events to abide by. This is intended to ensure an inclusive and productive environment and can be read here: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kcl.a… Thanks, Matthew -- Department of Informatics, King's College London, Strand Campus, Room S1.22 Strand, London, WC2R 2LS United Kingdom +44 (0) 20 7848 7578 -- Department of Informatics, King's College London, Strand Campus, Room S1.22 Strand, London, WC2R 2LS United Kingdom +44 (0) 20 7848 7578 https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnms.kcl.a…

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Draft paper from today's talk
by Andrew Coles 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Hi all, A few of you have requested the paper from my talk - see attached. This isn't the camera-ready copy of the paper, accounting for the reviewers' comments, but the idea and results are there. Cheers, Andrew -- Dr Andrew Coles Lecturer Department of Informatics, King's College London Room: S6.14, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 1511

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