Welcome to ICAPS'08

ICAPS-2008, the Eighteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, will take place in Sydney, Australia on September 14-18, 2008.

ICAPS is the premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of intelligent planning and scheduling technology. The conference is part of the ICAPS conference series.

The conference program will consist of pre-conference workshops and tutorials on current research topics, invited talks by leading computer scientists working in the area, presentations of contributed technical papers, as well as system demonstrations. For graduate students the conference includes a doctoral consortium.

Practical information

Venue

The ICAPS'08 conference will take place, together with the collocated CP'08 and KR'08 conferences, at SMC at 66 Goulburn Street in the middle of the Central Business District of Sydney, within a walking distance from many of Sydney's main sights, shopping and restaurants. See a map of central Sydney. ICAPS registration fee includes attendance to the CP and KR conference talks as well as CP workshops and tutorials.

Lunch, Dinner and Drinks

See our restaurant map for lunch and dinner restaurants near the conference venue and hotels. There are many more fast food restaurants on George Street and the streets neighboring World Square right next to the conference venue. See eatability.com.au for restaurant reviews. Some bars and pubs recommended by Sydney Computer Scientists are shown on a pub/bar map.

Awards

• Best Student Paper: Fast Dynamic Scheduling of Disjunctive Temporal Constraint Networks through Incremental Compilation, Julie A. Shah, Brian C. Williams
• Distinguished Papers:
  HiPPo: Hierarchical POMDPs for Planning Information Processing and Sensing Actions on a Robot, Mohan Sridharan, Jeremy Wyatt, Richard Dearden
  From One to Many: Planning for Loosely Coupled Multi-Agent Systems, Ronen I. Brafman, Carmel Domshlak
  
• ICAPS Dissertation Awards: Matt Streeter (Winner), Mausam (Honourable Mention)

Sponsors

• National Science Foundation (USA)
• Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia)
• NICTA (Australia)
• NASA (USA)
• SRI International (USA)
• David E. Smith (USA)
• ILOG (France)
• IJCAI
• Adventium Labs (USA)
• ECCAI (Europe)

Statistics

A total of 151 papers were submitted from 34 countries, and of these 51 were accepted for publication in the proceedings and presentation as a talk during the conference.

The following table lists different countries' relative contribution to the papers submitted to ICAPS'08. A submitted paper with 1 author from country X and 2 authors from country Y counts as 0.333 submissions from X and 0.6667 submissions from Y.

country	authors	papers
United States	108	46.25
Spain	24	14.70
Canada	29	13.33
Germany	21	9.50
France	20	9.00
Australia	15	7.67
United Kingdom	14	7.23
Israel	6	5.33
Brazil	7	3.00
Italy	8	2.57
China	9	2.42

More information about the conference is available in the ICAPS'08 conference report (PDF).

• News & Updates

  • A small selection of photos from the conference is available.
  • ICAPS'08 conference report (PDF) is available.