Vol. 19 (2009): Nineteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling

Edited by Alfonso Gerevini, Adele Howe, Amedeo Cesta, and Ioannis Refanidis
404 pp., references, index, illus.
ISBN 978-1-57735-406-2
ISSN 2334-0843 (online)
ISSN 2334-0835 (print)

ICAPS-2009 took place in Thessaloniki, Greece from September 19-23, 2009. 

The International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners working in planning and scheduling—two technology areas critical to manufacturing, space systems, disaster relief, logistics, robotics, software engineering, education, crisis response, design, and entertainment. These proceedings contain the papers accepted for presentation at ICAPS 2009—the nineteenth edition of this conference series. The papers in this proceedings present the latest advances in the field of automated planning and scheduling, ranging in scope from theoretical analyses of planning and scheduling problems and processes, to new algorithms for planning and scheduling under various constraints and assumptions, to empirical evaluation of planning and scheduling techniques in practical applications. They reflect recent research trends in the field toward the use of search and constraint reasoning in planning and scheduling; probabilistic planning models and algorithms; and integrated frameworks for planning, scheduling, and execution.