ECP-99

                 5th European Conference on Planning

                       September 8 - 10, 1999

                       Durham, United Kingdom


The European Conferences on Planning  (ECP) are a major forum  for the
presentation  of  new  research in  AI Planning  and  Scheduling. They 
developed from a series of European workshops  and became successfully 
established  as international meetings,  held in alternate years  with 
the AIPS conferences.
Prior to  the conference,  a general meeting of  PLANET, the  European 
Network of  Excellence in  AI Planning, will  be held  on September 7.  
This meeting is open to all attendees of ECP.
 

                              TOPICS

ECP-99 invites original papers from the whole spectrum of  AI Planning 
and  Scheduling  research.  Topics  of  interest include, but are  not 
restricted to: 
classical planning * scheduling * planning and reasoning about actions 
* deductive planning  *  temporal planning  *  case-based  planning  *
planning and complexity  *  plan recognition * planning and perception 
*  planning and learning  *  robot planning  *  multi-agent planning * 
planning under uncertainty *  decision-theoretic planning  * knowledge 
acquisition and domain modeling for planning and scheduling * reactive 
planning * applications.

                            SUBMISSION

Papers should  have a  front page containing the title, the  names and 
full addresses---including  e-mail addresses and  fax numbers---of all 
authors, key words,  and a  100-200  word abstract.   Papers should be 
written  in  English,  in 12pt type  and  must  not  exceed  12 pages, 
excluding front page and references. The proceedings of ECP-99 will be 
published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI series. Authors are encouraged 
to use LaTeX and the Springer style files available from the ECP-99 Web 
site. The primary means of submission will be electronic, in PostScript 
format. Papers should be  compressed  using "compress" or "gzip",  then 
encoded using "uuencode", and e-mailed to the programme chair.
If electronic submission  is not possible,  five hard  copies should be 
sent to  the  postal address  given  below.  All  papers must reach the 
programme chair by

                          May 5, 1999.

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the  first or
designated author on  or before  July 15, 1999.  Accepted papers must be 
presented at the conference, in English by one of the authors.


                       PROGRAMME COMMITTEE


Rachid Alami, LAAS-CNRS Toulouse (France),
Ruth Aylett, University of Salford (UK),
Michael Beetz, University of Bonn (Germany),
Susanne Biundo, University of Ulm (Germany) (programme chair),
Jim Blythe, Carnegie Mellon University (USA),
Craig Boutilier, University of British Columbia (Canada),
Amedeo Cesta, IP-CNR Rome (Italy),
Berthe Choueiry, Stanford University (USA),
Stephen Cranefield, University of Otago (New Zealand),
Brian Drabble, University of Oregon (USA),
Mark Drummond, Electric Time Software (USA),
George Ferguson, University of Rochester (USA), 
Maria Fox, University of Durham (UK) (local arrangements chair),
Malik Ghallab, LAAS-CNRS Toulouse (France),
Carla Gomes, Cornell University (USA),
Robert Goldman, Honeywell SRC (USA),
Joachim Hertzberg, GMD St.Augustin (Germany),
Toru Ishida, Kyoto University (Japan),
Peter Jonsson, University of Linkoeping (Sweden),
Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University (USA),
Jana Koehler, University of Freiburg (Germany),
Richard Korf, University of California at Los Angeles (USA),
Claude Le Pape, Bouygues (France),
Witold Lukaszewicz, Warsaw University (Poland),  
Alfredo Milani, University of Perugia (Italy),
Dana Nau, University of Maryland (USA),
Anna Perini, IRST Trento (Italy),
Martha Pollack, University of Pittsburgh (USA),
Louise Pryor, Harlequin Ltd. (UK),
Barry Richards, Imperial College (UK),
Wolfgang Slany, Technical University of Vienna (Austria),
Jon Spragg,  Mid Sweden University (Sweden),
Sam Steel, University of Essex (UK),
Patrick Taillibert, Dassault Electronique (France),
Sylvie Thiebaux, CSIRO (Australia),
Paolo Traverso, IRST Trento (Italy).


Programme Chair:
----------------
Susanne Biundo 
Department of Artificial Intelligence 
University of Ulm 
James-Franck-Ring, Geb. O27/449 
D-89081 Ulm
Germany 
e-mail: biundo@informatik.uni-ulm.de 


Local Arrangements Chair:
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Maria Fox
Department of Computer Science
University of Durham 
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE
UK
e-mail: Maria.Fox@durham.ac.uk

 
                        
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