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Subject: Second call for Papers for AIPS-96
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                     Conference Announcement
                       and Call for Papers

         The Third International Conference on Artificial
            Intelligence Planning Systems (AIPS-96)

          Edinburgh, Scotland 29th to 31st May 1996



The International Conference on AI Planning Systems is the main
international gathering of researchers in AI Planning and Scheduling
Systems. The previous conferences were held at College Park Maryland
in June 1992, and the University of Chicago in June 1994.  The third
conference in the series will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 29th to
31st May 1996.

The conference proceedings will be available at the event and will be
published through AAAI Press.

TimeTable of Key Dates
---------------------------

First Call for Papers                 : 15th May 1995
Submission Deadline                   : 15th September 1995
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection  : 11th December 1995
Final Version of the papers           : 22nd January 1996
Conference                            : 29th - 31st May 1996

Topics
------
Original papers in English are invited in all areas of AI planning.
Topics of interest include:

  - Classical AI planning
  - Planning and reasoning about action and change
  - Plan recognition
  - Planning and perception
  - Planning and learning
  - Planning and temporal reasoning
  - Planning under uncertainty
  - Decision-theoretic planning
  - Scheduling
  - Constraint management approaches to planning and scheduling
  - Resource management
  - Plan and ontology modelling
  - Knowledge acquisition for planning and scheduling
  - Planning and scheduling user interfaces
  - Multi-agent planning
  - Robotic planning
  - Reactive Systems
  - Domain-specific planning and scheduling techniques
  - Applications

Papers are welcome in the whole spectrum from practical and applied
research to formal and theoretical research. We especially welcome
papers combining these aspects.

Call for Papers
---------------
Papers should be produced in 12pt type, with high-quality printers, on
A4 paper or US letter (or similar format).  Papers should have a
front page containing: title; name, full address, email address,
telephone and fax number (if available) for all authors; keywords; and
a 100-200 word abstract.  Papers must not exceed 12 pages and 5000
words, excluding front page and references.

Five (5) hardcopies of the paper must reach the programme chairman not
later than 15th September 1995. Any papers received after this date
will be returned unopened. Notification of acceptance/rejection will
be mailed to the first (or designated) author of each paper by 11th
December 1995.  Final versions of accepted papers are due by 22nd
January 1996.  Accepted papers must be presented at the conference, in
English by one of the authors.

Location
--------
Edinburgh is one of the world's most beautiful capital cities and is
renowned for its unique history, heritage, architectural grandeur and
cultural vibrance. It also has a good communications network.
Edinburgh International airport, located within 20 minutes of the city
centre, is served by 11 major airlines flying directly to 27 scheduled
destinations including Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Dusseldorf.
There are also 20 return flights to London each day. Direct flights
to New York, Boston, Chicago and Toronto are provided from
Glasgow airport within one hours drive. The conference hotel will be the
Scandic Crown which is located right on the Royal Mile in the city
centre.

Cooperating and Supporting Organisations
----------------------------------------

AIPS-96 is organised in cooperation with: 

   - American Association of Artificial Intelligence 
   - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Inc. 
   - British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems 
   - Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd.


Programme Committee
-------------------

Conference Chairman: 
      Dr. Earl Sacerdoti, Apple Computer, Cupertino, USA 

Programme Co-chairs: 
      Dr. Brian Drabble, AIAI, University of Edinburgh, UK 
      Prof. Austin Tate, AIAI, University of Edinburgh, UK 

Logistics Co-chairs: 
      Mr. Howard Beck, AIAI, University of Edinburgh, UK 
      Dr. Louise Pryor, University of Edinburgh, UK 

Programme Committee: 
      Dr. Nader Azarmi, British Telecom, UK 
      Dr. Christer Backstrom, Linkoping University, Sweden 
      Dr. Steve Cross, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
      Dr. Mark Drummond, NASA Ames, USA 
      Dr. Nort Fowler, Rome Laboratory, USA 
      Prof. Mark Fox, University of Toronto, Canada 
      Dr. Mike Georgeff, AAII, Melbourne, Australia 
      Dr. Malik Ghallab, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France 
      Prof. Kris Hammond, University of Chicago, USA 
      Prof Steve Hanks, Washington University, USA 
      Prof. Jim Hendler, University of Maryland, USA 
      Dr. Joachim Hertzberg, GMD, Germany 
      Dr. Pat Langley, Stanford University, USA 
      Prof. Drew McDermott, Yale University, USA 
      Dr. Alfredo Milani, University of Perugia, Italy 
      Dr. Patrick Prosser, University of Strathclyde, UK 
      Dr. Glen A. Reece, ISX Corporation. US 
      Dr. Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
      Dr. Steve Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
      Dr. Sam Steel, University of Essex, UK 
      Dr. Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 

Contact Information
-------------------

The e-mail address for the conference is: AIPS-96@aiai.ed.ac.uk

The WWW home page for the conference is: 
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~pasg/aips-96/

Further contact information can be obtained from:

Dr. Brian Drabble
Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
University of Edinburgh
80 South Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1HN
United Kingdom

tel: +44 (131) 650 2732 fax: +44 (131) 650 6513

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