The ICAPS Influential Paper Awards honor significant and influential papers published at least ten years earlier in a planning and scheduling conference.
The ICAPS Best Dissertation Awards honor outstanding PhD theses in any area of automated planning and scheduling.
ICAPS Influential Paper Award 2007
- Winner
- Mark Peot and David Smith for "Conditional Non-Linear Planning", published in AIPS 1992.
- Honorable Mention
- Fahiem Bacchus and Froduald Kabanza for "Using Temporal Logic to Control Search in a Forward Chaining Planner", published in ECP 1995.
ICAPS Best Dissertation Award 2007
- Winner
- Håkan Younes for his thesis "Verification and Planning for Stochastic Processes with Asynchronous Events"
- Honorable Mention
- Daniel Bernstein for his thesis "Complexity Analysis and Optimal Algorithms for Decentralized Decision Making "
- Patrick Haslum for his thesis "Admissible Heuristics for Automated Planning"
- Malte Helmert for his thesis "Solving Planning Tasks in Theory and Practice"
ICAPS Influential Paper Award 2008
- Winner
- Alessandro Cimatti, Fausto Giunchiglia, Enrico Giunchiglia and Paolo Traverso for "Planning via Model Checking: A Decision Procedure for AR", published in ECP 1997
- Honorable Mention
- Jana Koehler, Bernhard Nebel, Jörg Hoffmann and Yannis Dimopoulos for "Extending Planning Graphs to an ADL Subset", published in ECP 1997
ICAPS Best Dissertation Award 2008
- Winner
- Matthew Streeter for his thesis "Using Online Algorithms to Solve NP-Hard Problems More Efficiently in Practice"
- Honorable Mention
- Mausam for his thesis "Stochastic Planning with Concurrent, Durative Actions"
