Conference Program

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Registrations will be done in the Conference Center main lobby (Level 0), it will be open during the following hours:
- 17:00-19:00 the 22nd
- 8:15-12:00 the 23rd, 24th, and the 25th
- registered participants arriving outside of these hours will be able to get their conference bag, badge and proceedings from local comittee members.
The joint AIPS/KR sessions of the 25th are held in the St Exupery amphitheater(Level 2 and 3).
The plenary sessions of the 26th and the 27th are held in the Cassiopée room (Level 1).
The interactive session (7) is held in the Ariane 1 room (Level 1).
Coffee breaks and the cocktail are held in the Ariane lobby (Level 1).
All lunches (for AIPS participants) are held at the Novotel Restaurant (across the park).

Wednesday April 24
18:30-19:00	Welcome aperitif at the Toulouse City hall (Salle des Illustres) Mairie de Toulouse, Place du Capitole, Toulouse

Thursday April 25 (Saint-Exupery)
8:15-8:50	*Welcome Coffee*
8:50-9:00	*Welcome Address*
9:00-10:00	Invited Talk: Bernhard Nebel The Philosophical Soccer Player Chair: Joachim Hertzberg
10:00-10:30	*Coffee Break*
10:30-12:30	Session AIPS/KR 1: Cognitive Robotics Chair: Enrico Giunchiglia Reasoning about Actions and Planning in LTL Action Theories.+ Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Moshe Y. Vardi On the Semantics of Deliberation in IndiGolog From Theory to Implementation. + Giuseppe De Giacomo, Yves Lespérance, Hector J. Levesque, Sebastian Sardina Plan Representation for Robotic Agents. * Michael Beetz A Knowledge-Based Approach to Planning with Incomplete Information and Sensing. # Ronald P. A. Petrick; Fahiem Bacchus*
12:30-14:00	*Lunch at the Novotel Restaurant*
14:00-15:30	Session AIPS/KR 2: Extended representations Chair: Patrick Doherty Actions and Other Events in Situation Calculus. + John McCarthy Universal Quantification in a Constraint-Based Planner. * Keith Golden, Jeremy Frank The Logic of Reachability. * David E. Smith, Ari K. Jónsson
15:30-16:00	*Coffee Break*
16:00-17:30	Session AIPS/KR 3: Planning in non-deterministic Domains Chair: Fahiem Bacchus Improving Heuristics for Planning as Search in Belief Space. * Piergiorgio Bertoli, Alessandro Cimatti Backward Plan Construction for Planning with Partial Observability. * Jussi T. Rintanen Fragment-based Conformant Planning. * James A Kurien, P. Pandurang Nayak, David E. Smith
17:30-18:00	AIPS Planning Competition The Third International Planning Competition: Temporal and Metric Planning. Maria Fox, Derek Long
18:15	*Departure for Fondation Bemberg Museum* (30 min. nice walk) (bus available for non walkers or if raining)
19:00-21:00	*Visit of the Fondation Bemberg Museum, and Apéritif Buffet* Hôtel d'Assézat, Place d'Assézat, 31000 Toulouse Tel : 05.61.12.06.89

+ KR Papers.
* AIPS Papers.
# AIPS'02 Best Paper Awards.

Friday April 26 (Cassiopée)
8:15-9:00	*Welcome Coffee*
9:00-10:30	Session 4: Learning & Domain Analysis Chair: Manuela Veloso CaMeL: Learning Method Preconditions for HTN Planning. Ilghami Okhtay, Dana Nau, Hector Munoz-Avila, David W. Aha On the Identification and Use of Hierarchical Resources in Planning and Scheduling. Bernd Schattenberg, Susanne Biundo On Control Knowledge Acquisition by Exploiting Human-Computer Interaction (1). Ricardo Aler, Daniel Borrajo An Interactive Method for Inducing Operator Descriptions (2). T. L. McCluskey, N.E. Richardson, R.M. Simpson Extending the Exploitation of Symmetries in Planning (3). Maria Fox, Derek Long
10:30-11:00	*Coffee Break*
11:00-12:30	Session 5: Scheduling & Heuristics Chair: Kanna Rajan Filtering Algorithms for Batch Processing with Sequence Dependent Setup Times. Petr Vilím, Roman Barták Constraint Model-based Planning and Scheduling with Multiple Resources and Complex Collaboration Schema. Christophe Guettier, Bertrand Allo, Vincent Legendre, Jean-Clair Poncet, Nelly Strady-Lécubin Symbolic Pattern Databases in Heuristic Search Planning (4). Stefan Edelkamp Heuristic Search-Based Replanning (5). Sven Koenig, David Furcy, Colin Bauer A Plan-Based Personalized Cognitive Orthotic (6). Colleen E. McCarthy, Martha E. Pollack
12:30-14:00	*Lunch at the Novotel Restaurant*
14:00-15:00	Invited Talk: Jan Karel Lenstra Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization Chair: Malik Ghallab
15:00-16:00	Session 6: Planning with Incomplete Information Chair: Piergiorgio Bertoli Execution Monitoring with Quantitative Temporal Dynamic Bayesian Networks. Dirk Colbry, Bart Peintner, Martha E. Pollack Faster Probabilistic Planning Through More Efficient Stochastic Satisfiability Problem Encodings (7). Stephen M. Majercik, Andrew P. Rusczek Estimated-Regression Planning for Interactions with Web Services (8). Drew V. McDermott Speculative Execution for Information Gathering Plans (9). Greg Barish, Craig A. Knoblock
16:00-18:00	Session 7: Interactive Session Demonstrations and/or poster presentations of papers (1) through (9)	*Coffee Break (16:00-16:30)*

18:00-19:00	AIPS'02 Awards & Scholarships Recipients AIPS'02 Chairs AIPS Planning Competition Results and analysis. Maria Fox, Derek Long	*Cocktail*
19:00	*Departure for "les Caves de la Maréchale"* (20 min. walk)
19:45-22:00	*Banquet at "les Caves de la Maréchale"* 3, Rue Jules Chalande, Toulouse, Tel: 05 61 23 89 88

Papers (1) through (9) are briefly presented in plenary sessions S4 to S6, then detailed in the Interactive Session S7.

Saturday April 27 (Cassiopée)
8:15-9:00	Welcome Coffee *
9:00-10:30	Session 8: Analysis & Optimization of Plans Chair: Sam Steel Analyzing Plans with Conditional Effects. Elly Winner, Manuela Veloso LPG: A Planner Based on Local Search for Planning Graphs with Action Costs. Alfonso Gerevini, Ivan Serina Planning Graph-based Heuristics for Cost-sensitive Temporal Planning. Minh B. Do, Subbarao Kambhampati
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break *
11:00-12:30	Session 9: Complexity & Planning Chair: Jörg Hoffmann Decidability and Undecidability Results for Planning with Numerical State Variables. Malte Helmert Structure and Complexity in Planning with Unary Operators. Carmel Domshlak, Ronen I. Brafman On the Role of Ground Actions in Refinement Planning. Håkan L. S. Younes, Reid G. Simmons
12:30-14:00	*Lunch at the Novotel Restaurant*
14:00-15:00	Invited Talk: Martha Pollack Plan-Management Assistants: From Homework Helpers to Cognitive Orthotics Chair: Paolo Traverso
15:00-16:00	Session 10: Distributed Planning & Execution Chair: Craig Knoblock Active Coordination of Distributed Human Planners. Karen L. Myers. Peter A. Jarvis, Thomas J. Lee Planning for Distributed Execution Through Use of Probabilistic Opponent Models. # Patrick Riley, Manuela Veloso
16:00-16:30	*Coffee Break*

16:30-18:00	Session 11: Replanning & Domain Analysis Chair: Susanne Biundo The FAR-OFF system: A Heuristic Search Case-Based Planning. Flavio Tonidandel, Márcio Rillo Applying Domain Analysis Techniques for Domain-Dependent Control in TALplanner. Jonas Kvarnström Local Search Topology in Planning Benchmarks: A Theoretical Analysis. Jörg Hoffmann

*Additional demos in the Ariane Lobby.

Sunday April 28
10:00- 12:00	Guided Visit of Historical Toulouse The tour is offered by AIPS, but registration is required. Send an email to to Jackie Som and specify the name of the persons coming, or register at the registration desk during the conference.

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