alan fern wsccceecsoregonstateedu learning track 2008 international planning competition call participation httpeecsoregonstateeduipclearn international planning competition ipc biennial event organized context international conference automated planning scheduling icaps year pleased introduce new learning track competition complement existing deterministic probabilistic tracks previous planning competitions structured around number planning domains logistics freecell airport planner asked solve sequence problems domain previous nonlearning planners competitions attempt leverage structure example trying learn previous problems domain solve future problems domain effectively motivation learning track encourage work planning systems learning capabilities general structure learning track follows competitors provide two programs organizers competition begins learner planner competition run two stages first learning stage learning programs provided domain definition example problems domain appear competition domain learning program given certain amount learning time must output domainspecific controlknowledge file second evaluation stage domain planner provided appropriate domainspecific controlknowledge file asked solve sequence test problems domain organizers placing constraints style learning approach might used example system might utilize statisticalinductive learning purely deductive learning techniques addition learning track provides good venue entering approaches might traditionally views learning pure domainanalysis example domain analysis could conducted learning period resulting knowledge used evaluation period ultimately hope see wide variety approaches help answer following questions planner best use learning domain analysis period order improve future performance learning track run first half 2008 conclude together icaps september 2008 sydney organized alan fern prasad tadepalli roni khardon currently plan focus deterministic domains expressed using subset planning domain description language pddl exact pddl features supported depends largely initial participant feedback depending interest may also consider running probabilistic learning track competitors must submit 4page paper describing planners booklet papers possibly electronic distributed among icaps08 participants finally important requirement ipc6 competitors give organizers right post code planners official ipc6 web site registration schedule potential participants requested send email wsccceecsorstedu expressing interest providing information participant interest form website early expression interest provide opportunity help shape structure competition final registration deadline february 29 2008 participant register sending email wsccceecsorstedu including filled registration form available competition web site tentative schedule competition activities follows january 31 08 definition domain language subset pddl evaluation schema february 29 08 registration deadline march 22 08 demo problems supporting tools syntax checker plan validator may 22 08 final versions planners learners submitted organizers description abstract july 1 08 deadline final version papers competing planners juneaugust 08 collection evaluation results september 08 announcement results winners icaps08 possible additional intermediate deadlines communicated registered participants organizers looking forward exciting competition organizers alan fern prasad tadepalli roni khardon _______________________________________________ uai mailing list faqengrorstedu httpssecureengroregonstateedumailmanlistinfouai sun 03 aug 2008 021520 0800 uai cfp learning track 6th international planning competition