[Apologies if you receive this CFP multiple times] ================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Distributed and Multi-Agent Planning, ICAPS 2020 Nancy, France June 15-16, 2020 (TBA) Up to date information will be available at: https://icaps20.icaps-conference.org/workshops/dmap/ Collocated with the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2020) https://icaps20.icaps-conference.org taking place in Nancy, France, June 14-19, 2020. ================================================================= Multi-Agent Planning (MAP) is a broad field with many applications, but its subfields remain mostly dispersed and uncoordinated. There has been a steady interest in multi-agent planning in recent years. Specifically, progress has been made in formalizing general models, algorithmic techniques, and solution concepts for the MAP problem and privacy preserving algorithms. The main goal of this 6th Workshop on Distributed and Multi-Agent Planning (DMAP), as in the previous editions, is to bring researchers working in these subfields together and to bridge the gap between the planning and multi-agent systems communities. TOPICS Relevant topics to the workshop are, among others: * Multiagent planning and scheduling applications * Techniques to overcome multiagent planning complexity * Plan coordination/merging * Distributed planning and scheduling * Multiagent planning system architectures * Multi-robot systems * Self-interested planning agents * Game theoretic planning * Distributed planning under uncertainty * Privacy in distributed planning * Evaluation and benchmarks for distributed planning * Centralized, decentralized and factored multiagent planning * Multiagent planning problem modeling techniques and languages * Domain-dependent and domain-independent multiagent planning * Heuristics for multiagent planning FORMAT The format will include technical presentations, followed by ample time for questions and discussions. The workshop will also be accompanied by an invited talk. SUBMISSION Submitted papers must be in PDF only, formatted in AAAI style. Refer to the author instructions on the AAAI web site for detailed formatting instructions and LaTeX style files. Unlike at the main conference, there will be a high quality single-blind review (where the authors do not know who the reviewers are), while each submission will be reviewed by at least two committee members against the standard ICAPS criteria of significance, soundness, scholarship, clarity, and reproducibility. However, the submission may be less evolved than at the main conference. 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. Non-trivial negative results are welcome to the workshop, but we expect the authors to argue for the significance of the presented results to alternative lines of research on the topic of choice. 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 sent to other conferences are allowed. However, it is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that those venues allow for papers submitted to be already published in “informal” ways (e.g., on proceedings or websites without associated ISSN/ISBN). Final papers will be in the same format, therefore keep them to at most 8+1 pages long (meaning 8 pages plus 1 extra page containing only references). We also welcome the submission of short position papers (at most 4+1 pages long). Papers must be submitted by March 7th, 2020. The deadline refers to 23:59 hours. The reference timezone for the deadline is UTC-12. Paper submissions should be made through Easychair. 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. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission: March 7th, 2020 (UTC-12 timezone) * Notification of acceptance: April 1st, 2020 * Camera-ready paper submission: TBD * Workshop date: June 15-16th, 2020 (TBA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Ronen I Brafman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) * Eva Onaindia (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) * Shashank Shekhar (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) * Mathijs de Weerdt (Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands) * Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) * Anders Jonsson (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain) * Guy Shani (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) * Eva Onaindia (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) * Roni Stern (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) * Antonín Komenda (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) * Michal Štolba (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) Please direct all questions to the workshop organizers – Shashank Shekhar (BGU), Ronen Brafman (BGU), and Eva Onaindia (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia).