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                  FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
     The ICAPS 2009 Workshop on AI P&S for Ontologies and Semantic Web   
                  Thessaloniki, Greece
                  September 19/20th, 2009 
        http://decsai.ugr.es/~faro/Workshop09/index.html                                                 


Workshop Description:
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Ontologies and Semantic Web are two topics often interrelated, that share a common angle. 
Both fields are interested in providing a knowledge-based, semantic layer for interpreting 
and reasoning about information and processing services made publicly available either in 
the web or in intranets. In the last years, Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling (AI P&S) 
techniques have addressed new challenges in terms of knowledge representation, being able to 
work with enriched domains, as well as in terms of new models for plan generation and execution. 
The combination of all these fields, AI P&S + Ontologies + Semantic Web, might add value to each one of them.

In this sense, this workshop is aimed to explore, on the one hand, the use of 
ontology-based knowledge models in AI P&S either for knowledge representation, for knowledge 
interchange or for accessing large data collections in the web or in (possibly heterogeneous) 
legacy databases. On the other hand, it is also focused on the use of AI P&S techniques as the core 
technology to put in practice the potential of semantic web concepts. Specially, the workshop will be 
interested in covering research and development fields where AI P&S plays a crucial role in either 
the semantic description or the intelligent management of services and processes, 
like Grid and Business Process Management (BPM) Systems.


The workshop will be interested on receiving research work (theoretical developments 
or practical applications) on the following issues:

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      Ontology-based models and AI P&S
          o Definition of planning ontologies that overcome drawbacks detected on the 
            real application of standard planning languages (such as PDDL)
          o Use of ontologies as the basis for knowledge exchange between different 
            components of intelligent systems (like multiagent systems), where planning is a core technology
          o Planning applications that use ontology concepts for their development
          o Integration of ontology editing tools with planning systems
          o Derivation of planning domain models from existing ontological knowledge
          o Planning and Scheduling ontologies for the Semantic Web
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      AI P&S techniques for Semantic web services (including Grid and BPM Systems)
          o Relationships between planning languages and standard languages for modelling 
            services and business processes
          o Automatic and mixed-initiative composition of services
          o Execution monitoring and workflow repair
          o Interleaving information gathering for planning and workflow management
          o Plan verification and plan quality for services and workflows
          o AI P&S for distributed/SOA-based BPM


Important Dates:
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    * Submission Deadline: 	               June 23rd, 2009 midnight Pacific Time
    * Notifications and Technical Program:     July 22nd, 2009
    * Camera-Ready Paper Submissions: 	       August 3rd, 2009
    * Edited Working Notes: 	               August 8th, 2009
    * Workshop Date: 	                       September 19/20th, 2009


Submission Procedure:
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We ask authors to submit technical papers in PDF format. Papers should 
be formatted in accordance with the AAAI style template and may be at most 
8 pages long, including figures and bibliography. Visit the url 
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php for formatting instructions.

Please note that all submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by multiple 
reviewers, and that low-quality or off-topic papers will not be accepted. Also note 
that all workshop participants must register for the main ICAPS-09 conference


Organizing Committee
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    * Juan Fernández Olivares. University of Granada, Spain (faro@decsai.ugr.es)
    * Laura Sebastiá. Technical University of Valencia, Spain (lstarin@dsic.upv.es)
    * Paolo Traverso. ITC-IRST, Italy (traverso@fbk.eu)


Program Commitee:
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Jose Luis Ambite. University of Southern California (USA)
Nick Bassiliades. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Jim Blythe. University of Southern California (USA)
Luis Castillo. University of Granada (Spain)
Oscar Corcho. Technical University of Madrid (Spain)
Oscar García. IActive Intelligent Solutions (Spain)
Juan Fdez-Olivares. University of Granada (Spain)
Yolanda Gil. University of Southern California, (USA)
Juan Miguel Gómez. University Carlos III (Spain)
Jana Koehler. IBM Research Zurich (Switzerland)
Lee McCluskey. University of Huddersfield (U.K.)
Sheila McIlraith. University of Toronto (Canada)
Miguel Rebollo. Technical University of Valencia (Spain)
Bernd Schattenberg. University of Ulm (Germany)
Laura Sebastiá. Technical University of Valencia (Spain)
Evren Sirin. Clark & Parsia, LLC (USA)
Biplav Srivastava. IBM Indian Research Lab (India)