(apologies for cross-posting)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on
Machine Learning & Automated Planning (MLAP'08)
http://lpis.csd.auth.gr/workshops/mlap08/
July 2008, Patras, Greece
in conjunction with
18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'08)
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Aims and Scope:
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Machine Learning is the area of Artificial Intelligence concerned with the design of computer programs that improve at a category of tasks with experience. It is a very broad field with many learning methodologies and numerous algorithms, which have been extensively exploited in the past to support planning systems in many ways. In addition, planning is closely associated with Reinforcement Learning, a sub-area of Machine Learning where an agent learns from interaction with its environment. This workshop intends to provide a forum for researchers in the field of Machine Learning and Automated Planning, to discuss issues and related topics regarding methodologies and systems that combine ideas from the two areas.
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Topics:
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The topics of interest for MLAP include, but are not limited to:
* Learning domain knowledge for planning
* Learning models to control the search
* Automatic optimization of planning systems
* Optimizing plans
* Reinforcement learning
* Fast replanning and plan adaptation
* Planning to sense
* Trading off planning time and plan quality,
* Multi-agent planning and learning
* Life-long learning of domain models
* Learning with very few training data,
* Theory Of mixing inductive and deductive approaches to planning
* Learning for games (e.g., learning game evaluators at end games)
* Generalizing plans across similar domains
* Function approximation in planning
* Planning heuristics for exploration in reinforcement learning
* Applications of planning and learning
* Learning for planning in non-deterministic domains
* Learning for planning under uncertainty
* Mixed-initiative learning and planning systems
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Important Dates:
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Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2008
Notification: May 21, 2008
Camera ready: June 4, 2008
Workshop day: July 21 or 22, 2008
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PROCEEDINGS
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The workshop proceedings will be published and distributed on paper and as a CD-ROM.
*** NEW IN THIS CFP ***: Proceedings will also be formally published by IOS Press, based on the volume of submissions
Extended versions of selected papers of the workshop, will be published at a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools
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Paper Submission:
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The style for MLAP papers is the same as the one used for ECAI-08. A description of the style can be found here. For Latex users the necessary files can be downloaded here. It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready formatting style. Submissions must not exceed five pages in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited to 6000 words including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 600 words. (Please note that for some papers five camera-ready pages may be considerably less than 6000 words in practice.)
Papers in PDF or PS format should be sent by email to the chairs (all three) of the workshop at:
dvrakas@csd.auth.gr
greg@csd.auth.gr
sfarregu@inf.uc3m.es
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Program Committee:
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- Carlos Diuk, Rutgers University, USA
- Alan Fern, Oregon State University, USA
- Muhammad Abdul Hakim Newton, University of Strathclyde, UK
- Adele Howe, Colorado State University, USA
- Nick Jong, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Ugur Kuter, University of Maryland, USA
- Michail Lagoudakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
- Michael Littman, Rutgers University, USA
- John Levine, University of Strathclyde, UK
- Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield, UK
- Hector Munoz-Avila, Lehigh University, USA
- Fernando Fernandez Rebollo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- Sharon Wood, University of Sussex, UK
- Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
- Sungwook Yoon, Arizona State University, USA
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Workshop Organization:
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Dimitris Vrakas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
dvrakas@csd.auth.gr
Grigorios Tsoumakas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
greg@csd.auth.gr
Susana Fernandez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
sfarregu@inf.uc3m.es