Preliminary Call for Papers

The program committee of the International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS'09) invites paper submissions on topics related to automated planning and scheduling. The purpose of the conference is to promote research in automated planning and scheduling through analysis and dissemination of the foundational theory, the technologies and their application to significant problems. The focus of the conference program is in:

* analytic and empirical studies of planning and scheduling problems and algorithms for solving them,
* studies of applying automated planning and scheduling technologies to real problems and deployed applications,
* extensions to the complexity and types of problems that can be solved with current techniques, and
* analytic and implemented tools for supporting automated planning and scheduling.

Accepted papers will be allocated 8 pages in the conference proceedings which will be published by the AAAI Press.

Author/reviewer guidelines

Authors should make sure that their submissions satisfy the usual basic requirements for publications (as applicable) to ease the reviewing process and to improve the quality of the submissions.

Papers will be reviewed using the following criteria.

* Is the motivation for the research explained well?
* Is the contribution (w.r.t. related research) of the research argued/supported convincingly?
* Are the ideas and contribution novel and substantive?
* Are the algorithms/theorems/proofs correct?
* Is the presentation clear (informative and readable)?
* Is the original research on the topic cited? Is related research cited? (Use Google Scholar!)
* Do the experiments demonstrate a valuable non-obvious point? Are the experiments/algorithms explained well enough to support reproducibility? Are the experiments rigorously conducted?

Papers submitted to ICAPS'09 may not be submitted to other conferences or journals during ICAPS'09 review period nor may they be already under review or published in other conferences or journals. Over-length papers will be rejected without review.