Workshop Schedule:

9:00- 9:35:  Welcome (Ioannis Refanidis); Presentation by the Organizers on Organizing the IPC 2008; (Minh Do) (slides)

9:35-10:05: The Learning Track at IPC 2008; Discussion (Alan Fern) (slides)

10:05-10:30: The Perils of Discrete Resource Models (William Cushing and David E. Smith)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:30 Quality of Solutions to IPC5 Benchmark Problems: Preliminary Results (Patrik Haslum) (slides)

11:30-12:00 Evaluating Temporal Planning Domains (William Cushing, Subbarao Kambhampati, Kartik Talamadupula, Daniel S. Weld and Mausam)

12:00-12:30 Panel on Objective Functions:

                    What are We Optimizing, and What Should We Optimize?

                    (Panelists: Rao Kambhampati, Bart Selman, and Maria Fox. Chair: Ioannis Refanidis)

12:30-14:10 Lunch Break

14:10-14:30 A "Tough Nuts" Track for the IPC (Joerg Hoffmann) (slides)

14:30-15:00 Panel on Competition Domains and Benchmark Problems:

                   Are Our Benchmarks Good Enough?

                   (Panelists: Wiliam Cushing, Jörg Hoffmann, and Patrik Haslum. Chair: Malte Helmert)

15:00-15:30 Probabilistic Planning vs. Replanning (Iain Little and Sylvie Thiébaux) (slides)

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-16:30 Open Discussion on the Planning with Uncertainty Track:

                    Where Do We Go From Here? Controversies and How to Avoid Them.

                    (Panelists: Sylvie Thiébaux, Héctor Geffner, Alan Fern. Chair: Malte Helmert)

16:30-16:50 Science, Engineering, and Community in the Planning Competition (Manuela M. Veloso)

16:50-17:10 A Call for Participation: Supporting Large Scale Studies of Planning Systems (Mark Roberts and Adele Howe) (slides)

17:10-17:40 Panel on Community Involvement & Wrapup:

                    How to Grow the Competition and Get the Community Involved

                    (Panelists: Manuela Veloso, Mark Robert, and Henry Kautz. Chair: Malte Helmert)