============================================================================== 2023 International Planning Competition Numeric Tracks Call for Domains https://ipc2023.github.io ipc2023-numeric@googlegroups.com ============================================================================== We are delighted to announce that the International Conference on Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) 2023 in Prague will host a next iteration of the International Planning Competition (IPC), including a track specific for numeric planning. As for the other tracks, the objective is to empirically evaluate state-of-the-art planning systems on a number of benchmark problems. The goals of the IPC are to promote planning research, highlight challenges in the planning community, and provide new and interesting problems as benchmarks for future research. If you are interested in designing a domain for the competition please contact us before September 30 (ipc2023-numeric@googlegroups.com). An informal email telling us you want to make a submission is enough. We will then collaborate in adapting the domains to suit the IPC, but we ask you to think about the ability to easily scale problem difficulty. If you don't have a domain yourself, but you can think of someone who might have an interesting planning problem, please share this call with them. The final deadline for domain submissions is set to December 9. While not necessary, it is desirable for the domains to be related to real applications. Moreover, if a domain-dependent planner for the submitted domain is available, please include it in the submission. We will consider all submissions and select the highest quality subset to be included. We are aware that participants that submit a domain that is used have some advantage with respect to performance on that domain. We view this as a good incentive for teams to submit high quality proposals. Following in the steps of the last IPC, we will select one domain for the Outstanding Domain Submission Award. The evaluation of the submitted domains will be based mainly on the following criteria: - does the domain model a real world application? - does it come with a generator with controllable difficulty? - does it have an interesting intrinsic difficulty (i.e., it is not a simple problem scaled up)? - does it come with a way to find optimal solutions (e.g., a domain-specific solver, or a generator that can create the optimal solutions as well)? Since one of the goals of the IPC is to provide a new (publicly available) set of benchmarks for future research, we plan to publish all domains selected for IPC 2023 in a public repository. By submitting a domain, you agree to this and give us the rights to do so. We recommend that you also license your domain under a permissive license such as CC-0 so that others can use and build on your domain. If you have a domain in mind but have doubts whether it would be appropriate for the IPC, don't hesitate to contact us! Joan and Enrico - ipc2023-numeric@googlegroups.com