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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"