====================================================================== 2018 International Planning Competition Call for Participation https://ipc2018.bitbucket.io ====================================================================== The International Planning Competition is organized in the context of the International Conference on Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). It empirically evaluates state-of-the-art planning systems on a number of benchmark problems. The goals of the IPC are to promote planning research, highlight challenges in the planning community and provide new and interesting problems as benchmarks for future research. The deterministic part of IPC is the oldest one; its 9th edition will run in 2018 and conclude together with ICAPS, in June 2018, in Delft (Netherlands). This time it is organized by Florian Pommerening and Alvaro Torralba. IPC 2018 will use a subset of PDDL 3.1, as done in IPC 2011 and IPC 2014. As in previous editions of the sequential track planners must support the subset of the language involving STRIPS, action costs, negative preconditions, and conditional effects (possibly in combination with forall, as done in IPC 2014). We will consider providing alternative domain definitions using more advanced ADL features for planners supporting them. There will be four tracks: - optimal: planners must find optimal solutions to as many problems as possible. - satisficing: planners must find solutions of as high quality as possible. - agile: planners must find solutions as quickly as possible, regardless of their quality. - bounded-cost: planners must find solutions not exceeding the cost bound to as many problems as possible. A competing team may participate for any track, so competitors are strongly encouraged to participate in every track supported by their planners. Details regarding the rules and evaluation criteria of all tracks can be found at the competition website. As in previous editions, the competitors must submit the source code of their planners that will be run by the organizers on the actual competition domains/problems, unknown to the competitors until this time. This way no fine-tuning of the planners will be possible. All competitors must submit an abstract (max. 300 words) and a 4-page paper describing their planners. After the competition we encourage the participants to analyze the results of their planner and submit an extended version of their abstract. An important requirement for IPC 2018 competitors is to give the organizers the right to post their paper and the source code of their planners on the official IPC 2018 web site. Registration ------------ Potential participants are requested to subscribe to the mailing list and send us an email expressing interest (ipc-2018-organizers@googlegroups.com). Information on submitting the planner will be provided on the mailing list and the homepage later on. Tentative Schedule ------------------ -June '17: Call for Domains available -June '17: Call for Participation available -Nov '17: Domain submission deadline -Nov '17: Demo problems provided -Jan '18: Initial planner submission -End of Jan '18: Planners submission deadline -April '18: Planner abstract submission deadline -Jan, '18: Planners submission deadline -June '18: Announcement of the results and winners at ICAPS'18 -July '18: Results analysis deadline We are looking forward to an exciting competition! Organizers ---------- Florian Pommerening, University of Basel, Switzerland Alvaro Torralba, Saarland University, Germany __________________________________________ Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ipc-2018 Website: https://ipc2018.bitbucket.io/ Contact: ipc-2018-organizers@googlegroups.com