IPC 2023 - Numeric Tracks
This is the website for the numeric tracks of the IPC 2023.
Please forward the following calls to all interested parties.
Event | Date |
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Domain submission deadline | 9th December 2022 |
Demo problems provided | December 2022 |
Planner submission opens | February 28 2023 |
Final Planner submission | April 19 2023 |
Planner Abstract submission deadline | May 24 2023 |
Contest run | May-June 2023 |
Results announced | July 2023 |
Result analysis deadline | August 2023 |
We will use a subset of PDDL 2.1, considering two fragments:
Preconditions and goals are arbitrary propositional formulas. That is, they include quantifiers, negative preconditions, disjunctive preconditions and any number of numeric predicates. Conditional effects are not considered. Terms can either be literals as in classical planning, or numeric terms of the form f(X){ >=,>, =} 0 where f(X) is a linear expressions. Each domain of the competition will be either a SNP or a LNP (LNP is more expressive than SNP). Planners supporting only SNP will be accepted and their performance will be reported when compared with respect to only SNP problems. A planner can also only support SNP. We are considering to have separate rankings.
In terms of the optimisation track, the optimisation functions will always be a minimisation. Problems will either be a minimisation of action costs, or a metric function that is a weighted sum with positive coefficients where each involved variable can only be increased by the actions.
Sample problems are here: Domain1, Problem1, Domain2, Problem2, Domain3, Problem3
We require that a planner is registered through a team. For this you need to send an e-mail with a subject containing “[Registration for Numeric Tracks]” to jea20@st-andrews.ac.uk. The email must contain:
names of participants, email contacts, track (agile/satisficing/optimal), at least one github account
Based on that, we will create a private repository under the ipc2023-numeric organization and add all participants as users with with write access and participants can both upload their planner there, and then commit to the repository as they wish until the “final planner submission” deadline.
All participants must subscribe to the Google Group. We will announce further details on the submission process there in due time.
To propose a domain for the competition, please contact the organizers (see below).
The competitors must submit the source code of their planners that will be run by the organizers on the actual competition domains/problems, unknown to the competitors until this time. This way no fine-tuning of the planners will be possible. We will host repositories of planners ourselves. The repositories will be hosted on Github under the ipc2023-numeric organisation, and they will be kept private until the end of the competition when we make them public, i.e., after the competition is concluded, we plan to make all planners, domains, and all related data accessible from one place. We require participants to provide self-contained code, with scripts for compilations and running, “compile” and “run”, respectively. The code should be compilable on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and running has to require only three parameters as an input in the following order: the domain file, the problem file, and the name of the file where the last solution found will be saved. The solution format is the usual IPC solution format, which consists of a list of actions separated by a new line.
Contact us: ipc2023-numeric@googlegroups.com