carmel domshlak xjzltobietechnionacil call papers icaps07 workshop heuristics domainindependent planning progress ideas limitations challenges september 22nd providence rhode island usa web site httpietechnionacildcarmelicaps07ws motivation goals automatic derivation heuristic estimators guide search become one main approaches domainindependent planning approach works large problems many boolean variables operators solved way could solved approach appears scale better others yet yet fully understand various heuristics work well understand limitations ways overcome illustration consider problem building ordered tower b1 bn b1 top initial state blocks table except bn b1 trivial problem yet extremely powerful ff planner would solve similar trivial unsolved examples constructed heuristic search planners problem finding plans avoid certain states eg states contain certain subsets atoms bad states none standard heuristics seems able take additional information account theoretical problem instances quadratic length solutions deleterelaxation heuristics unlikely work deleterelaxed problems always linear size plans dealing many relevant problems new ideas needed ideas often difficult publish standard venues typical reviewing process lays lot emphasis beating ipc planners leave much room thoughtful considerations basic properties heuristic functions workshop aim address situation look contributions would help us understand better ideas underlying current heuristics limitations ways overcoming contributions show new heuristic new variation known heuristic beats competition performance measured number evaluated nodes time solution quality remains relevant workshop seek crisp meaningful ideas understanding ideas make sense computationally need wrap many others planner competitive stateoftheart planners also rather interested largest problems current heuristic search planners solve interested simplest problems cant actually solve well workshop format papers position statements ranging 2 6 pages aaai format style invited see httpwwwaaaiorgpublicationsauthorauthorphp formatting instructions submissions sent email carmel domshlak dcarmelatiedottechniondotacdotil important dates listed workshop archival conference multiple submissions permitted work strict subset recently previously published archival journal presented short position statement workshop planned full 1day format precise format decided function contributions received plan two types presentations long short 1520 510 mins well 12 discussion panels important dates paper submission deadline june 15 2007 notification acceptancerejection july 13 2007 cameraready copy due date july 20 2007 workshop date september 22 2007 organizing committee hector geffner universidad pompeu fabra barcelona spain patrik haslum nicta canberra australia malte helmert university freiburg freiburg germany joerg hoffmann deri innsbruck innsbruck austria vincent vidal cril iut de lens lens france blai bonet universidad simon bolivar caracas venezuela carmel domshlak technion haifa israel fri 08 aug 2008 012514 0300 spam 6257 uai icaps07 workshop heuristics domainindependent planning progress ideas limitations challenges