Summer School

Planning and Scheduling are central aspects of Artificial Intelligence, providing intelligent agents with the ability to reason about how and when to act. The methods developed over the past two decades of research in Planning and Scheduling are relevant for a wide range of applications, from industrial automation to robot control. The 9th International Summer School on Planning and Scheduling, to be held in conjunction with the 2016 ICAPS conference in London, UK, proposes an intense four day educational program for graduate students and young researchers. The program focuses on a selection of topics that are relevant for both theory and practice. Particular emphasis is placed in this edition on Planning and Scheduling for Robotics - a field where AI-driven reasoning in general, and Planning and Scheduling in particular, are increasingly instrumental.

Topics, Program and Lecturers

The 2016 Summer School on Automated Planning and Scheduling will give the students present in London a great opportunity to learn about the foundations and recent developments in a research area that is central to AI. It will include lectures on classical planning, constraint-based planning and scheduling, planning under uncertainty, computational complexity of planning, and multi-agent planning, and planning/scheduling for robotics.

The special aim of this edition is to bring together the two somewhat separated fields of AI and Robotics. Two lectures will focus on crucial points of intersection between these fields. Lectures will be given by top subject experts from the Planning, Scheduling, and Robotics research communities.

June 8, 2016

8:45	Welcome & intro
9:00	Introduction to Classical Planning Patrik Haslum
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Introduction to Classical Planning Patrik Haslum
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Computational Complexity of Planning Jussi Rintanen
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	Computational Complexity of Planning Jussi Rintanen

June 9, 2016

9:00	Sampling-based motion planning and its combination with task planning Mark Moll
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Sampling-based motion planning and its combination with task planning Mark Moll
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Task Scheduling and Execution for Long-Term Autonomy Nick Hawes and Dave Parker
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	Task Scheduling and Execution for Long-Term Autonomy Nick Hawes and Dave Parker

June 10, 2016

9:00	Planning under Uncertainty Scott Sanner
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Planning under Uncertainty Joel Veness
12:30	Lunch / Free time
14:00	ROSPlan Tutorial (outline) Michael Cashmore

June 11, 2016

9:00	Multi-Agent Classical Planning Ronen Brafman
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Multi-Agent Classical Planning Ronen Brafman
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Constraint Programming for Planning and Scheduling Chris Beck
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	Constraint Programming for Planning and Scheduling Chris Beck
17:30	Organized Dinner

Registration and Grants

The registration fee is 170 GBP. It covers admission to all school lectures and to the ICAPS-16 pre-conference programme (workshops and tutorials). Admitted students must register for the school at the following link:

• https://www.kcl.ac.uk/prospectus/shortcourses/applying/name/icapssummerschool-/department/department-of-informatics/from/searchall

A number of grants will be offered for supporting travel, registration and accommodation. Request for such financial support should be indicated on the application form (see above). Decisions about allocation and size of the grants will be announced in May, 2016.

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