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Parisa Zehtabi
by Magazzeni, Daniele 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Dear all, I'm very pleased to introduce Parisa Zehtabi! Parisa's just been awarded a GTS scholarship and will start now a PhD on planning applications. I'm sure you will help her to settle in and feel part of our amazing group. Parisa, welcome to the team! Dan -- Dr Daniele Magazzeni Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, King's College London Head, AI Planning Group Editor-in-Chief, AI Communications http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/danmag

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Fwd: Talks in AI Planning - Thursday 26/1 from 14.00-16.30 in S4.29
by Amanda Coles 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Hi All, As you may or may not be aware we have been advertising for a new professor in planning to join us and lead the group here at King's, replacing 80% of Maria and Derek. The candidates will be here next Thursday to each give a talk so we will use this to replace our planning group meeting. I'd strongly encourage you all to make the time to attend this, as it's an opportunity for you to find out whom you might be working with; but also it gives a positive and welcoming impression to the candidates, who are eminent researchers in our field and whom we would really like to join us. See you then, Amanda -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Talks in AI Planning - Thursday 26/1 from 14.00-16.30 in S4.29 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:28:29 +0000 From: McBurney, Peter <peter.mcburney(a)kcl.ac.uk> To: ML-Informatics-Staff <Informatics-Staff(a)kcl.ac.uk>, ML-Informatics-RAs <Informatics-RAs(a)kcl.ac.uk>, ML-Informatics-PG <Informatics-PG(a)kcl.ac.uk> CC: Benton, Frances <frances.benton(a)kcl.ac.uk> Hi all -- We have research talks scheduled next Thursday 26 January 2017 afternoon by shortlisted candidates for our Chair in AI Planning. Everyone is welcome to attend the talks. THURSDAY 26 JANUARY 2016 LOCATION: S4.29 14.00-14.45: Stefan EDELKAMP 14.50-15.35: Christopher GEIB 15.40-16.25: Joerg HOFFMANN As usual, we will have a discussion following the last talk to canvass views on the talks. The location will be S4.29. Thanks, -- Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------- Peter McBurney Professor of Computer Science and Head, Department of Informatics King's College London Strand Building, S6.04 Strand London WC2R 2LS UK Tel: +44 20 7848 1253 http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/mcburney/ Map: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/campus/strand.aspx Co-Editor, The Knowledge Engineering Review http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=KER ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Planning Meeting This Term
by Amanda Coles 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

HI All, We've been looking at the timetable to find a slot for the planning group meeting, 14:00 on Thursday is free of SGTs and labs and avoids Andrew, my and Dan's lectures. Does anyone have any objections to us using this as our meeting time for this semester? Amanda -- Dr Amanda Coles Lecturer Department of Informatics King's College London Room: S6.17 http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/amanda/

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Planning group dinner
by Andrew Coles 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

Hi all, The planning group Christmas dinner is booked for Monday the 12th of December, the date most people could make in the Doodle poll. Thanks to Liana for organising this. The table is booked for 6pm (we had few options of times or venues -- next year we should book in October...) and will be at: Bill’s Restaurant Covent Garden 13 Slingsby Place, St Martins Courtyard (Off Long Acre) London WC2E 9AB I will contact you nearer the time with the menu -- we need to order food a couple of days in advance. 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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Planning group Christmas dinner
by Andrew Coles 10 Dec '16

10 Dec '16

Hi all, The restaurant for the group dinner on Monday has contacted me to request our selections from the menu by tomorrow. Please complete the following Google form, by 4pm, and I'll email them the details: https://goo.gl/forms/UTbARak6xY95rWQ32 The dinner and Christmas menus are at: https://d1k0w6lyhojuj5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/24103007/L… https://d1k0w6lyhojuj5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/24095618/B… Thanks, 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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Planning group Christmas dinner
by Andrew Coles 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

Hi all, The restaurant for the group dinner on Monday has contacted me to request our selections from the menu by tomorrow. The dinner and winter specials menus are attached. Please complete the following Google form, by 4pm, and I'll email them the details: https://goo.gl/forms/UTbARak6xY95rWQ32 Thanks, 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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Skating at Somerset House
by Marinescu, Liana 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Hi everybody, Let's go skating next week! http://doodle.com/poll/zfbszq6zg4vaz8bs We've got a research group activity fund, and skating is just the sort of thing we can use it for :). All welcome! Cheerios, Liana

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Next planning meeting
by Magazzeni, Daniele 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Hi all, I'd like to propose an experiment for the next planning meeting (Wednesday Dec 7th) : let's work together on a grant proposal! The idea of the project is the one that came out last week, i.e., to have a service, like Google Maps, that takes into account initial and final position of each vehicle and then send different route recommendations to different groups of drivers, in order to balance (and then reduce) the traffic. At the moment, instead, Google maps send the route recommendation to each driver as if he/she was the only driver taking that route. Working on a grant proposal means to think at the following items: -Project background: the current services, and the disciplines involved in the project (Planning of course! :) -Project goals: what are the contributions of the project? -How the project will achieve its goals: what are the different steps of the project (problem specification, data collection, planning algorithms, etc.) -Project impact: why would this be an important project? Why should the project be funded? -National Importance: why is this project important for the UK? (the grant will likely be submitted to EPSRC, so it's important to state the relevance of this project for the UK) I'd like to ask you to think about these items and come to the meeting with some ideas. We'll then brainstorm on each item for 10 minutes. I think it's also a good exercise for each one of us, as grant writing is something that we will all have to do if we want to work in the academia!! Best, Dan -- Dr Daniele Magazzeni Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, King's College London Head, AI Planning Group Editor-in-Chief, AI Communications http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/danmag

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Next planning meeting
by Magazzeni, Daniele 23 Nov '16

23 Nov '16

Hi all, Sorry I couldn't join the planning meeting today, but I'm about to flight to Madrid as tomorrow I'll join a panel discussion on legal aspects on AI and Robotics. I'll brief you when I'm back. As I announced earlier, we have Dr. Achille Fonzone (in Cc) visiting us for the next 4 weeks. He's sitting in the hot desk, close to Bram. Please welcome him. Achille will give a talk on his research (Public Transport) at the next planning meeting (Wednesday 30, at 1pm). Below title and abstract. See you on Monday. Best, Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- Why Intelligent Transport System (ITS) data are important if you are interested in public transport passenger behaviour Also in transport data is everywhere: travellers can rely on the advice of well-informed journey planners, transport operators can monitor the performance of means in real-time, planners have huge amount of data to get to know cities and city-dwellers. The seminar will discuss the potential for intelligent mobility applications enabled by ITS data, looking at the demand for innovation as it emerges from a Transport Catapult report. Then it will focus on data and public transport behaviour, illustrating how ITS data can be used to understand travellers' behaviour in the case of Santander Cycles Scheme. Finally, it will show the results of a survey investigating the actual impact of real-time information on bus passengers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr Daniele Magazzeni Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, King's College London Head, AI Planning Group Editor-in-Chief, AI Communications http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/danmag

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HPC Facilities Talk
by Amanda Coles 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Hi All, We discussed a while ago what would be good activities for meetings and one thing that came up was the use of the HPC. Andreas from the systems team has agreed to come and talk to us about the HPC facilities and in particular what we can do with them given our needs in our meeting on Wednesday November 23rd, this will be in S6.06. I won't have time to talk about scripting etc. until after then, but it will be good to work out what we actually have to work with first in any case. I'm going to presume that given the looming ICAPS deadline no one wants to meet this week, so we will resume meetings on the 23rd. After that we should get a more organised schedule for meetings for the rest of term, we will be looking for volunteers to entertain us so please think about what you can talk about. Amanda -- Dr Amanda Coles Lecturer Department of Informatics King's College London Room: S6.17 http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/amanda/

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