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The International Planning Competition Committee is seeking bids from
potential organisers of the 7th IPC, to complete alongside ICAPS 2010.
Deadline: Proposals to be sent to Derek Long (de...@cis.strath.ac.uk) by
the end of March, 2009.
The IPC series has been highly influential in promoting the development
and evaluation of planning systems, including pushing the broad research
community to examine increasingly ambitious planning problems as the
series has progressed. The IPC series has been significant in achieving
a situation in which there are several easily available planners capable
of solving large and sophisticated planning problems within reasonable
performance parameters.
The goal of the IPC series is to promote development and evaluation of
planning technology by:
a) Providing a growing repository of benchmark problems for evaluating
and testing planning systems
b) Developing new domains and problems that are increasingly realistic
and relevant and push the state of the art in planning technology
c) Encouraging direct comparison of planning systems and techniques
through regular competitions
d) Continuing to develop and improve a common language for expressing
planning domains and problems
e) Encouraging researchers and competitors to make planning software and
tools publicly available
We wish to encourage broad participation in these activities by both the
established community and by relative newcomers like graduate students.
For this reason, our objective is to keep the focus of competitions on
new challenges, so that there is not a significant barrier for new
participants, and so that the work done does not degenerate into purely
software engineering, optimization, and tuning.
Previous organisers include:
1st IPC: Drew McDermott
2nd IPC: Fahiem Bacchus
3rd IPC: Maria Fox and Derek Long
4th IPC: Deterministic: Stefan Edelkamp and Joerg Hoffmann
Probabilistic: Michael Littman and Hakan Younes
5th IPC: Alfonso Gerevini with Yannis Dimopoulos, Patrik Haslum and
Alessandro Saetti
Probabilistic: Blai Bonet and Bob Givan
6th IPC: Deterministic: Malte Helmert, Minh Binh Do and Yannis Dimopolous
Probabilistic: Dan Bryce and Olivier Buffet
Learning: Alan Fern, Roni Khardon and Prasad Tadepalli
Proposers should not feel constrained to follow the tracks that have
been used in the past. The responsibilities of the organisers are to
establish the objectives of the competition, assemble appropriate
domains, provide the environment for testing and then to perform a
sufficient analysis of the results to provide a brief summary at ICAPS,
including identifying competitors who should be rewarded for their success.
In previous competitions some organisers have sought to extend PDDL in
order to express new features of planning problems. Proposals for
extensions are considered very carefully and discussed and debated
amongst members of the research community. The International Planning
Competition Committee has been formed partly to formalise this process,
where it is required.
Bids should include the following information:
- The name or names of the IPC7 Chair or Co-Chairs.
- What tracks the proposal covers.
- What are the objectives intended for IPC7 (specific track) should the
bid be successful.
- Whether language extensions are envisaged.
- A broad indication of the expected structure of the IPC7 track:
timetable, number of domains and problems, anticipated schedule for
testing and the process of final evaluation.
Fernando Fernández
Publicity Chair
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