AIPS-00 Planning Competition

The Fifth International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling Systems
Breckenridge, CO, April 15-19, 2000.


Organizing Committee

 

The Competition

AIPS 2000 featured the second AI planning systems competition. 15 teams competed and the results were presented at the AIPS 2000 conference.

Acknowledgements

·       CelCorp the Cel Corporation supplied prizes for those planning systems that demonstrated exceptional performance. (See the presentation below a list of the prize winner).

·       Franz Inc. provided the competition with a free version of their Allegro CL 5.0.1 common lisp development system. This system was used by some of the compeditors.

·       Schindler Lifts Ltd. provided prizes for performance on the Miconic-10 elevator control domain. They also made the domain publicly available so that it could be used in the competition.


 

Participating Teams

Fully Automated STRIPS and ADL planners

Participants

System

Joerg Hoffmann

 

Albert Ludwigs University Germany

FF

Ioannis Refanidis

Ioannis Vlahavas

Dimitris Vrakas

Aristotle University

Greece

GRT

Fangzhen Lin

 

The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Hong Kong

R

Stefan Edelkamp

Malte Helmert

University of Freiburg.

Germany

Mips

Jana Koehler

Joerg Hoffmann

Michael Brenner

Schindler Lifts Ltd.

Switzerland

University of Freiburg

Germany

IPP

Hector Geffner

Blai Bonet

Universidad Simon Bolivar

Venezuela

HSP2

Michael Fourman

 

University of Edinburgh

UK

PropPlan

Derek Long

Maria Fox

University of Durham

UK

STAN 

Henry Kautz

Bart Selman

Yi-Cheng Huang        

AT&T Research

Cornell University

USA

BlackBox

Biplav Srivastava

Terry Zimmerman

BinhMinh Do

XuanLong Nguyen

Zaiqing Nie

Ullas Nambiar

Romeo Sanchez

Arizona State University

USA

AltAlt

Yannick Meiller

Patrick Fabiani

ONERA - Center of Toulouse

France

TokenPlan

Hans-Peter Stoerr

Dresden University of Technology

BDDPlan

Hand Tailored Systems

Participants

System

Dana Nau

Hector Munoz-Avila

Yue (Jason) Cao

Amnon Lotem

 

University of Maryland

USA

SHOP

Fangzhen Lin

 

The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Hong Kong

R

Jose Luis Ambite

Craig Knoblock

Steve Minton

University of Sourthern California Information Sciences Institute

USA

PbR

Jonas Kvarnstrom

Patrick Doherty

Patrik Haslum

Linkoping University

Sweden

TALplanner

Biplav Srivastava

Terry Zimmerman

BinhMinh Do

XuanLong Nguyen

Zaiqing Nie

Ullas Nambiar

Romeo Sanchez

Arizona State University

USA

CHIPS

Yannick Meiller

Patrick Fabiani

ONERA - Center of Toulouse

France

TokenPlan

Ioannis Refanidis

Ioannis Vlahavas

Dimitris Vrakas

Aristotle University

Greece

GRT

Hans-Peter Stoerr

Dresden University of Technology

BDDPlan

 

For more Information.

Here is a document containing a description of the planning systems (contributed by the participants).


The Results

Here is a PowerPoint presentation describing some of the results of the competition.

Here is a version of the presentation in postscript. It is in colour postscript and seems to display ok with ghostview on a colour monitor, but I didn’t try printing it: black and white makes the graphs useless.

 

Here is the detailed data files that arose from the competition. Two formats are available, a gzipped tar file, and a zip file. Warning, these data files unpack to about 60MB. They contain the full set of domain specifications and problems used in the competition, and the full set of plans and timings generated by the competitors in solving these problems (there was a 30min CPU time limit on each problem---missing datapoints exceeded this limit). Unpack them and examine the README files in the various sub-directories. Most of the timings were generated on a 500Mhz Pentium III machine running Linux, the machine had 1GB or RAM. The only exception is the Schindler Miconic elevator control domain, this domain was run on-site at the conference on a set of 450Mhz Pentium III machines each having 256MB.


 Useful Links

The version of PDDL used in this years competition.

AIPS-2000 Home Page

The now out of date call for participation.