GenPlan ‘20: AAAI 20 Workshop on Generalization in Planning Call For Papers (CFP)
TL; DR: Please consider submitting your recent work and surveys of recent results on generalization in planning by November 1st, 2019 November 15th, 2019 at https://sites.google.com/view/genplan20/ <https://sites.google.com/view/genplan20/>. The workshop will be organized as a part of AAAI-20 in New York, NY (Feb 7-12, 2020). * WORKSHOP OVERVIEW Humans are good at solving sequential decision making problems, generalizing from few examples, and transferring this knowledge to solve new unseen problems. These problems remain longstanding open problems for Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the last decade, the planning community has improved the performance of automated planning systems to solve decision making problems by including novel search techniques and heuristics. On the other hand, the learning community has made major breakthroughs in reinforcement learning techniques for solving planning problems. However, industry level scalability and skill/task generalization still remains an open challenge for current AI tools. This workshop will feature a mix of invited talks, survey talks in a highlights format, as well as presentations of submitted papers. We aim to synthesize and highlight recent research on the topic from multiple sub-fields of AI, including those of reinforcement learning, classical planning, planning under uncertainty, as well as learning for planning. At the end of the workshop we expect to come up with new insights and topics to address the challenges of generalization in planning. * TOPICS Topics of interest to this workshop bring together research being conducted in a range of areas, including classical planning, knowledge engineering, partial policies and reinforcement learning, plan verification, and model checking. Potential topics include but are not limited to: - Learning and deriving generalized plans - Learning generalizable policies with reinforcement learning - Transfer learning of generalizable policies - Representation of generalizable solutions - Driving domain control knowledge and partial policies with planning and learning - Program synthesis - Heuristics for plan and policy generalization - Generation and detection of good examples for planning and learning - Generalized planning for problems with partial observability and/or noise - Learning models for generalizable planning - Model checking for generalization guarantees * WORKSHOP FORMAT The workshop will feature multiple invited plenary and highlight talks as well as presentations of submitted technical and position papers. It will also include discussion sessions tuned to the topics presented at the workshop. It is scheduled for one-day. * CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS We are glad to announce the following speakers for GenPlan ‘20 workshop: - Hector Geffner <https://www.dtic.upf.edu/~hgeffner/> (invited talk) - Leslie Kaelbling <https://people.csail.mit.edu/lpk/> (invited talk) - Giuseppe De Giacomo <http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/degiacom/> (highlights talk) - George Konidaris <http://cs.brown.edu/people/gdk/> (highlights talk) - Sheila McIllraith <https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sheila/> (highlights talk) - Peter Stone <http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/> (highlights talk) Talk titles and abstracts will be posted in the “Program” section of the webpage <https://sites.google.com/view/genplan20/>. * SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Submissions can describe either work in progress or mature work that has already been published at other research venues and would be of interest to researchers working on generalization in planning. Previously published work in whole or in part may be in the form of a resubmission of a previous paper, or in the form of a position paper that overviews and cites a body of work. Submissions of papers being reviewed at other venues are welcome since this is a non-archival venue and we will not require a transfer of copyright. If such papers are currently under blind review, please anonymize the submission. Technical papers may be up to 7 pages 8 pages + 1 for references; position papers may be up to 2 pages including references. All papers should be typeset in the AAAI style, described at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php, with the AuthorKit20 template https://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit20.zip. * SUBMIT TO Papers should be submitted via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=genplan20. * IMPORTANT DATES - Paper Submission Deadline November 1, 2019 November 15, 2019 - Author Notification December 3, 2019 - Camera-ready version due December 20, 2019 - Workshop Date February (7 or 8, to be confirmed), 2020 * ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Javier Segovia-Aguas <https://jsego.github.io/> (jsego...@iri.upc.edu), Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI), Spain. Siddharth Srivastava <https://www.public.asu.edu/~ssriva43/> ( siddhar...@asu.edu), Arizona State University, USA. Raquel Fuentetaja <http://www.plg.inf.uc3m.es/~rfuentet/> ( rfuen...@inf.uc3m.es), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Aviv Tamar <https://avivt.github.io/avivt/> (aviv.tamar.m...@gmail.com), Israel Institute for Technology, Israel. Anders Jonsson <https://www.upf.edu/web/anders-jonsson> ( anders.jons...@upf.edu), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain.
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