The international planning competition is a biennial event organized in the context of the International Conference on Planning and Scheduling ([[http://www.icaps-conference.org|ICAPS]]), which has several goals, including analyzing and advancing the state-of-the-art in automated planning systems; providing new data sets to be used by the research community as benchmarks for evaluating different approaches to automated planning; emphasizing new research issues in planning; promoting the acceptance and applicability of planning technology.

The sixth international planning competition, IPC-2008 for short, has been organized in the context of [[http://icaps08.cecs.anu.edu.au/|ICAPS-08]]. IPC-2008 and its organization is split into three parts: the deterministic part, that considers fully deterministic and observable planning (previously also called "classical" planning), the [[http://ippc-2008.loria.fr/wiki/|uncertainty part]] that considers non-deterministic and probabilistic actions in fully observable, partially observable or unobservable domains and the new [[http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/ipc-learn/|planning with learning]] part, where planners exploit domain dependent knowledge that has been automatically extracted during an offline training period.

=== General information ===

 * [[MailingList|Mailing List]]
 * [[News]]

=== Post-IPC ===
 * [[Presentations|IPC results presented at ICAPS-2008]]
 * [[Domains|Domains used for the competition]]
 * [[Planners|Participating Planners: Source code and short papers]]
 * [[attachment:data.tar.bz2|Raw competition results]] (79 MB compressed; expands to 765 MB)
   * This includes all plans and log files generated during the competition.

=== Pre-IPC ===

 * [[CallForParticipation|Call for Participation]]
 * [[RegistrationForm|Registration Form]]
  * [[attachment:example-domains.zip|Examples]] for different competition tracks
 * Evaluation schema
  * [[EvaluationOptimization|Optimization tracks]]
  * [[EvaluationSatisficing|Satisficing tracks]]
 * [[PddlExtension|Extensions to PDDL in this year's competition]]
 * [[PddlResources|PDDL Resources, past and present]]
 * [[CompetitionRules|Competition Rules]]
 * [[PlannerSubmission|Planner submission instructions]]
 * [[http://www2.parc.com/isl/members/minhdo/icaps07_ws/|ICAPS-07 Workshop on IPC-2008]]

=== Important dates ===

 * December 31 '07: Language definition
 * January 31 '08: Evaluation schema
 * February 29 '08: Registration deadline
 * March 15 '08: Demo problems, supporting tools (syntax checker, plan validator)
 * May 15 '08: Deadline for the papers describing the competing planners
 * May 31 '08: Final versions of the planners submitted to the organizers
 * June-August '08: Collection and evaluation of the results
 * September '08: Announcement of the results and winners at ICAPS'08

=== Organizers ===
 * [[http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~helmert/|Malte Helmert]], University of Freiburg, Germany
 * [[http://www2.parc.com/isl/members/minhdo/|Minh Do]], Palo Alto Research Center, USA
 * [[http://eos.uom.gr/~yrefanid/|Ioannis Refanidis]], University of Macedonia, Greece
 * [[OrganizerAcknowledgements|Acknowledgements]]

=== Previous competitions ===
 * [[http://zeus.ing.unibs.it/ipc-5/|IPC-2006]]
 * [[http://www.tzi.de/~edelkamp/ipc-4/|IPC-2004]]
 * [[http://planning.cis.strath.ac.uk/competition/|IPC-2002]]
 * [[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/aips2000/|IPC-2000]]
 * [[ftp://ftp.cs.yale.edu/pub/mcdermott/aipscomp-results.html|IPC-1998]]

=== Sponsors ===
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 . [[http://www.ijcai.org/|IJCAI]]: sponsors "jury" awards and the Learning & Planning part

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 . [[http://www.research.ibm.com/|IBM Research]]: sponsors the sequential optimization track

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 . [[http://www.atrics.com/|ATRiCS]]: sponsors the temporal satisficing track

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 . [[http://www.adventiumlabs.org/|Adventium Labs]]: sponsors the sequential satisficing track

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 . [[http://www.sick.com/|SICK]]: sponsors the net-benefit optimization track