Second International Competition on
Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (ICKEPS)

The International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling is a bi-annual event, hosted at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. The objectives of the competition are to promote the knowledge-based and domain modeling, to accelerate knowledge engineering research in AI, and to encourage the development of software platforms that promise more rapid, accessible, and effective ways to construct reliable and efficient systems.

For more details, including recent updates, we strongly encourage you to check the competition website at url https://ipc07.icaps-conference.org.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: June 15, 2007
• Submission deadline for further showcases: August 1, 2007
• Camera-ready copy due date: August 10, 2007
• Simulations now available
• Workshop event: September 22, 2007 (morning)

Consulting Committee

• Stefan Edelkamp, University of Dortmund, Germany
• Jeremy Frank, NASA AMES, U.S.A.,
• Wheeler Ruml, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), U.S.A.
• Hector Geffner, Departamento de Tecnologia UPF, Spain
• Robert Hawkins, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, U.S.A.
• Roman Barták, Charles University, Czech Republic
• Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
• Robert P. Goldman, SIFT, U.S.A.

Competition Chairs

• Stefan Edelkamp, University of Dortmund, Germany
  stefan.edelkamp at cs.uni-dortmund.de
• Jeremy Frank, NASA AMES, U.S.A.
  frank at email.arc.nasa.gov