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

YearDate heldNameLocationRef.
1990EPSUnited Kingdom Brighton, United Kingdom
1991EWSPGermany Sankt Augustin, Germany
1992AIPSUnited States College Park, MD, United States
1993EWSPSweden Vadstena, Sweden
1994AIPSUnited States Chicago, IL, USA
1995EWSPItaly Assisi, Italy
1996AIPSUnited Kingdom Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1997ECPFrance Toulouse, France
1998AIPSUnited States Pittsburgh, PA, United States
1999ECPUnited Kingdom Durham, United Kingdom
2000AIPSUnited States Breckenridge, CO, United States
200112–14 SeptemberECPSpain Toledo, Spain
200223–27 AprilAIPSFrance Toulouse, France
20039–13 JuneICAPSItaly Trento, Italy
20043–7 JuneICAPSCanada Whistler, Canada
20055–10 JuneICAPSUnited States Monterey, CA, United States
20066–10 JuneICAPSUnited Kingdom Lake District, United Kingdom
200722–26 SeptemberICAPSUnited States Providence, RI, United States
200814–18 SeptemberICAPSAustralia Sydney, Australia
200919–23 SeptemberICAPSGreece Thessaloniki, Greece
201012–16 MayICAPSCanada Toronto, Canada
201111–16 JuneICAPSGermany Freiburg, Germany
201225–29 JuneICAPSBrazil Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil
201310–14 JuneICAPSItaly Rome, Italy
201421–26 JuneICAPSUnited States Portsmouth, VA, United States
20157–11 JuneICAPSIsrael Jerusalem, Israel
201612–17 JuneICAPSUnited Kingdom London, United Kingdom
201718–23 JuneICAPSUnited States Pittsburgh, PA, United States
201824–29 OctoberICAPSNetherlands Delft, The Netherlands
201911–15 JulyICAPSUnited States Berkeley, CA, USA
202026–30 OctoberICAPSFrance Nancy, France – Virtual Conference
20212–13 AugustICAPSChina Guangzhou, China – Virtual Conference
202213–24 JuneICAPSSingapore Singapore – Virtual Conference
20238–13 JulyICAPSCzech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
20241–6 JuneICAPSCanada Banff, Canada

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