[agents] [cfp][meetings] ICAPS 2023 Workshop on Planning and Ontology (PLATO) - First call for papers

Alessandro Umbrico umbrico.alessandro at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 10:36:28 EST 2023 

[Apologize for multiple posting]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The first edition of the PLanning And onTology wOrkshop (PLATO)

https://icaps23.icaps-conference.org/program/workshops/plato 
<https://icaps23.icaps-conference.org/program/workshops/plato>

Held in conjunction with ICAPS 2023

Important Dates:

Paper submission: March 24, 2023

Notification: April 14, 2023

Camera-ready: April 25, 2023

Workshop dates: July 9-10, 2023

Conference dates: July 8-13, 2023

Contact: <plato2023 at easychair.org>

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The first edition of the PLanning And onTology wOrkshop (PLATO) will be 
held duringthe 33rd International Conference on Automated Planning and 
Scheduling (ICAPS 2023), July 8-13, 2023.


Aim

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Automated Planning and Ontology are two well-established fields of 
Artificial Intelligence (AI). The former investigates techniques to 
formally model and reason about the effects of actions, and decide the 
combinations of actions that allow an agent to achieve goals. The latter 
investigates techniques to formally define knowledge (by formally 
describing domain entities and their interrelations), allowing agents to 
process information about objects, and events, and incrementally build 
and verify beliefs. Both Automated Planning and Ontology generally rely 
on logic to model knowledge and organize reasoning mechanisms. They 
support the development of cognitive capabilities that autonomous agents 
need to effectively act in the real world. In this context, the PLanning 
And onTology wOrkshop (PLATO) aims at bringing together researchers in 
these two fields of AI to address new research challenges, share their 
experiences, and learn from each other. The workshop aims at 
investigating the synergetic contributions of technologies and methods 
from these two fields. There are examples in the literature that have 
investigated the use of Ontology to generate planning models, find 
effective plans, and contextualize plans and action execution to domain 
features.


Important Dates

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Paper Submission:March 24, 2023

Paper Notification: April 14, 2023

Camera-ready:    April 25, 2023

Workshop: July 9-10, 2023

Conference: July 8-13, 2023


Topics of interest

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The workshop is open to both application and theoretical contributions 
that see the integration of ontology and planning as a mechanism to 
enhance the efficacy of AI-based solutions. Here is a list of (some) 
topics:


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    Ontological analysis of concepts related to planning/scheduling
    (e.g., capability, capacity, action, etc)

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    Domain ontologies supporting tasks related to planning/scheduling

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    Reuse of foundational ontologies (e.g., DOLCE, BFO, UFO) in order to
    strive the interoperability among multiple ontologies, among other
    goals

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    Semantic Web ontologies and technologies for reasoning, (FAIR) data
    management, interoperability, etc

  *

    Ontologies supporting the interoperability of heterogeneous planning
    frameworks

  *

    Ontologies supporting Plan and Schedule Execution

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    Plan Recognition, plan management, and goal reasoning

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    Partially observable and unobservable domains

  *

    Knowledge acquisition and engineering for planning and scheduling

  *

    Situation assessment for contextualized planning decisions

  *

    Explainability of plans and planning models

  *

    Trustworthy, safety, and ethics in planning

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    Benchmarking and evaluation metrics of plans and plan-based controllers

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    Out-of-the-box research challenges at the intersection between
    Automated Planning and Ontology


Submissions

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We welcome two categories of paper submission:

Short papers - 6 pages(including references) formatted as LNCS 
one-column paper. These should describe concrete problems, open issues 
concerning planning and ontology, or methodologies/approaches pointing 
out the added values of the integration between planning and ontology.

Full papers- 13 pages(including references) formatted as LNCS one-column 
paper. These should report work-in-progress, novel designed technologies 
or systems relying on the integration of panning and ontology.

Submissions should be made in PDF through EasyChairfollowing the link 
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=plato2023 
<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=altruist2022>

Authors of accepted short and full papers will give a talk about their 
work during the workshop. Accepted papers will be published with CEUR-WS 
proceedings, under the IAOA series (https://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html).

Papers should be formatted according to CEUR-WS style. From 2022 
onwards, CEUR-WS requires that authors use the new CEUR-ART stylefor 
writing papers. An Overleaf templatefor LaTeX usersis available at the 
link https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt 
<https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt>.

It is also possible to download an offline version with the style files 
from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip 
<http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip>. Find out more information on 
the CEUR-WS website: http://ceur-ws.org/index.html 
<http://ceur-ws.org/index.html>


Special Issue

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We plan to publish selected papers in high-quality journals. Further 
information will be shared on the workshop website, social media, and 
mailing lists.

Program Committee (to be extended)

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Iman Awaad, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University, Germany

Daniel Bessler, University of Bremen, Germany

Stefano Borgo, CNR-ISTC, Italy

Andrea Orlandini, CNR-ISTC, Italy

Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo, University of Catania, Italy

Uil Sattler, University of Manchester, UK

Walter Terkaj, CNR-STIIMA, Italy

Mauro Vallati, University of Huddersfield, UK

Organization Committee

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Alessandro Umbrico

Institute for Cognitive Science and Technologies (ISTC)

National Research Council (CNR), Italy

&

Emilio M. Sanfilippo

Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC)

National Research Council (CNR), Italy

Contact: <plato2023 at easychair.org>

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National Research Council of Italy
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