The International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners in planning and scheduling - two technologies that are critical to manufacturing, space systems, software engineering, robotics, education, and entertainment. The ICAPS conference resulted from merging two bi-annual conferences, namely the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling (AIPS) and the European Conference on Planning (ECP).
ICAPS 2018 was held from June 23-29, 2018 in Delft, The Netherlands. Conference chairs are Matthijs Spaan and Mathijs de Weerdt. Program chairs are Sven Koenig and Gabriele Röger.
ICAPS 2017 was held from June 18-23, 2017 in Pittsburgh, USA. Conference chairs were Stephen F. Smith and Laura Barbulescu. Program chairs were Jeremy Frank and Mausam.
ICAPS 2016 was held from June 12-17, 2016 in London, UK. Conference chairs were Andrew Coles and Daniele Magazzeni. Program chairs were Amanda Coles, Stefan Edelkamp, and Scott Sanner.
Best Paper Award ·
Lagrangian Decomposition for Optimal Cost Partitioning ·
Florian Pommerening, Gabriele Röger, Malte Helmert, Hadrien Cambazard, Louis-Martin Rousseau and Domenico Salvagnin.
Best Applications Paper Award sponsored by UTRC ·
ZAC: A Zone pAth Construction Approach for Effective Real Time Ride Sharing ·
Meghna Lowalekar, Pradeep Varakantham and Patrick Jaillet.
Best Student Paper Award ·
Generalized Lazy Search for Robot Motion Planning: Interleaving Search and Edge Evaluations via Event-based Toggles ·
Aditya Mandalika, Sanjiban Choudhury, Oren Salzman and Siddhartha Srinivasa.
Best Student Paper Award (Honorable Mention as the runner-up) ·
Quantifying Degrees of Controllability in Temporal Networks with Uncertainty ·
Shyan Akmal, Savana Ammons, Maggie Li and Jim Boerkoel.
Best System Demo Award ·
Planimation ·
Gang Chen, Yi Ding, Hugo Edwards, Chong Hin Chau, Sai Hou, Grace Johnson, Mohammed Sharukh Syed, Haoyuan Tang, Yue Wu, Ye Yan, Gil Tidhar and Nir Lipovetzky.
Best SPC Award ·
Joerg Hoffmann · Saarland University
Best PC Award ·
Jeremy Frank · NASA Ames •Ariel Felner · Ben-Gurion University
Best DC Poster ·
Felix Winter · TU Wien
Sparkle Planning Competition ·
Please check the official results here.
ICAPS 2019 Influential Paper Award
Winner ·
Ronen Brafman and Carmel Domshlak ·
From One to Many: Planning for Loosely Coupled Multi-Agent Systems. (ICAPS 2008)
Winner ·
Alfonso Gerevini and Ivan Serina ·
LPG: A Planner Based on Local Search for Planning Graphs with Action Costs. (AIPS 2002)
ICAPS 2019 Best Dissertation Award
Winner ·
Pascal Bercher
for his dissertation Hybrid Planning – From Theory to Practice.
Honorable Mention ·
Tathagata Chakraborti
for his dissertation Foundations of Human-Aware Planning – A Tale of Three Models.