19th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
           ICAPS-2009, https://icaps09.icaps-conference.org
            September 19-23, 2009, Thessaloniki, Greece

           
Applications Showcase
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The Applications Showcase program at ICAPS 2009 provides an 
opportunity for Planning and Scheduling researchers to demonstrate 
their state-of-the-art implementations in action. The showcase 
allows the community to experience the latest contributions while 
broadening the reach of novel methods. The format of the showcase has
been reworked from previous ICAPS conferences to give applications a 
higher profile and to allow demonstrations to impact more conference 
attendees. Selected demonstrations will be presented in a lecture 
hall enabling large groups of conference attendees to participate. 
In addition, demonstrators can give traditional one-on-one small
group demonstrations.

Researchers from all sub-areas of AI Planning and Scheduling are 
encouraged to submit proposals to demonstrate their systems. 
Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their novelty and 
scientific contributions, relevance to the conference theme, 
user-friendliness and presentation. We encourage submissions 
demonstrating new and innovative techniques for Planning and 
Scheduling, as well as submissions from mature, full featured 
commercial and/or deployed systems.

Submissions
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Please send the following information as part of a submission 
directly to the Applications Showcase co-chairs:

(1) A four-page description in AAAI paper format of the technical 
    content of the demo, including credits and references. These 
    descriptions will be distributed during the conference and will 
    be posted on the conference web site. Authors will have the 
    opportunity to submit an updated version of the paper after 
    acceptance of their proposal.
(2) A 150-word summary of the demonstration in plain text. Please 
    include title, demonstrator names, and affiliation(s). This 
    summary will be used to compile a program for the demonstrations.
    Please keep the description under the 150-word limit.
(3) A demo storyboard of not more than six pages total or an 
    informal video of the demo (in MPEG or Quicktime format) that 
    describes how the demonstration will be presented. This is the 
    primary method of evaluating the user-friendliness of your 
    proposal. Please emphasize the elements that make your
    demonstration exciting and interesting.
(4) Local organizers will provide internet connections, tables and 
    chairs. Please include a description of any additional hardware 
    and software needs that your demonstration requires.
    
Demo proposals must be received in their entirety by July 10, 2009. 
Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 24, 2009.

Inquiries
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If you have any questions or comments about the ICAPS 2009 
Applications Showcase program, please contact the respective 
co-chairs:
•   Mark Giuliano, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA 
    (giuliano at stsci.edu)
•   Biplav Srivastava, IBM Research, India 
    (sbiplav at in.ibm.com)