First Workshop on Multi-Agent, Flexible, Temporal, Epistemic and Contingent Planning

1^st International Workshop on MultiAgent, Flexible, Temporal, Epistemic and Contingent Planning (MAFTEC 2020)

IJCAI-PRICAI has been postponed to January 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please find updated information about new dates and location in the conference website (https://ijcai20.org/, Covid Update).

The submission deadline of MAFTEC workshop has been extended to september 11, 2020 (firm).

Call for Papers

Introduction

The goal of this first MAFTEC international workshop is to lay the foundations to model and solve complex real-world planning problems in which many agents interact cooperatively and robustly via physical, communication, and sensing actions to attain common goals in a partially-observable environment. In order to be a solution of such a problem, a plan should take into account the beliefs of each agent which can change over time and it should allow simultaneous executions of actions. It should be sufficiently flexible to allow individual agents to make certain choices at execution time and it should be robust to the failure of certain actions and to changes in the environment. The MAFTEC international workshop aims to bring together researchers from all the different communities concerned by the considered aspects of planning in order to make these different avenues of research converge.

List of Relevant Topics Areas

We invite paper submissions on topics related to the combination of two or more aspects of planning within Multi-Agent, Flexible, Temporal, Epistemic and Contingent. Relevant topics to the workshop are, among others:

Adversarial planning
Applications and case studies
Complexity analysis
Conformant/contingent planning
Constraint reasoning
Cooperative planning
Distributed and multi-agent planning and scheduling
Knowledge compilation for planning and scheduling
Languages for problem description and representation of plans/policies
Logics for planning and scheduling
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Probabilistic planning, MDPs and POMDPs
Reinforcement learning
Temporal planning

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: September 11, 2020 (11:59PM UTC-12)
Paper notification: October 1, 2020

Submission Process

Papers submitted to the workshop must be formatted according to IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 guidelines (https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit) and must be no longer than 8 pages (excluding references). Submissions will be double blind.

There will be no formal proceedings. Submissions sent to other conferences are allowed. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that those venues allow for papers submitted to be already published in informal ways.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop to present the work.