International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
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The International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) is a leading international academic conference in automated planning and scheduling held annually for researchers and practitioners in planning and scheduling. ICAPS is supported by the National Science Foundation, the journal Artificial Intelligence, and other supporters.
The IPC and PDDL
ICAPS conducts the International Planning Competition (IPC), a competition scheduled every few years that empirically evaluates state-of-the-art planning systems on a collection of benchmark problems. The Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) was developed mainly to make the 1998/2000 International Planning Competition possible, and then evolved with each competition. PDDL is an attempt to standardize Artificial Intelligence (AI) planning languages. PDDL was first developed by Drew McDermott and his colleagues in 1998, inspired by STRIPS, ADL, and other sources.
History
The ICAPS conferences began in 2003 as a merge of two bi-annual conferences, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling (AIPS) and the European Conference on Planning (ECP).
List of events
| Year | Date held | Name | Location | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | EPS | United Kingdom Brighton, United Kingdom | ||
| 1991 | EWSP | Germany Sankt Augustin, Germany | ||
| 1992 | AIPS | United States College Park, MD, United States | ||
| 1993 | EWSP | Sweden Vadstena, Sweden | ||
| 1994 | AIPS | United States Chicago, IL, USA | ||
| 1995 | EWSP | Italy Assisi, Italy | ||
| 1996 | AIPS | United Kingdom Edinburgh, United Kingdom | ||
| 1997 | ECP | France Toulouse, France | ||
| 1998 | AIPS | United States Pittsburgh, PA, United States | ||
| 1999 | ECP | United Kingdom Durham, United Kingdom | ||
| 2000 | AIPS | United States Breckenridge, CO, United States | ||
| 2001 | 12–14 September | ECP | Spain Toledo, Spain | |
| 2002 | 23–27 April | AIPS | France Toulouse, France | |
| 2003 | 9–13 June | ICAPS | Italy Trento, Italy | |
| 2004 | 3–7 June | ICAPS | Canada Whistler, Canada | |
| 2005 | 5–10 June | ICAPS | United States Monterey, CA, United States | |
| 2006 | 6–10 June | ICAPS | United Kingdom Lake District, United Kingdom | |
| 2007 | 22–26 September | ICAPS | United States Providence, RI, United States | |
| 2008 | 14–18 September | ICAPS | Australia Sydney, Australia | |
| 2009 | 19–23 September | ICAPS | Greece Thessaloniki, Greece | |
| 2010 | 12–16 May | ICAPS | Canada Toronto, Canada | |
| 2011 | 11–16 June | ICAPS | Germany Freiburg, Germany | |
| 2012 | 25–29 June | ICAPS | Brazil Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| 2013 | 10–14 June | ICAPS | Italy Rome, Italy | |
| 2014 | 21–26 June | ICAPS | United States Portsmouth, VA, United States | |
| 2015 | 7–11 June | ICAPS | Israel Jerusalem, Israel | |
| 2016 | 12–17 June | ICAPS | United Kingdom London, United Kingdom | |
| 2017 | 18–23 June | ICAPS | United States Pittsburgh, PA, United States | |
| 2018 | 24–29 October | ICAPS | Netherlands Delft, The Netherlands | |
| 2019 | 11–15 July | ICAPS | United States Berkeley, CA, USA | |
| 2020 | 26–30 October | ICAPS | France Nancy, France – Virtual Conference | |
| 2021 | 2–13 August | ICAPS | China Guangzhou, China – Virtual Conference | |
| 2022 | 13–24 June | ICAPS | Singapore Singapore – Virtual Conference | |
| 2023 | 8–13 July | ICAPS | Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic | |
| 2024 | 1–6 June | ICAPS | Canada Banff, Canada |