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 2011
- Winner
- Philippe Laborie for "Algorithms for Propagating Resource Constraints in AI Planning and Scheduling: Existing Approaches and New Results", published in ECP 2001 Text of award
ICAPS Best Dissertation Award 2011
- Winner
- Michael Katz for his dissertation "Implicit Abstraction Heuristics for Cost-Optimal Planning" Text of award
- Honorable Mentions
- Jorge Baier for his dissertation "Effective Search Techniques for Non-Classical Planning via Reformulation" Text of the award
- Siddharth Srivastava for his dissertation "Foundations and Applications of Generalized Planning" Text of the award
ICAPS Influential Paper Award 2010
- Winners
- Patrik Haslum and Hector Geffner for "Admissible Heuristics for Optimal Planning", published in AIPS 2000
- Honorable Mention
- Minh Do and Rao Kambhampati for "Solving Planning-Graph by Compiling It into CSP" published in AIPS 2000
ICAPS Best Dissertation Award 2010
- Winner
- Hector Palacios for his dissertation "Translation-based approaches to Conformant Planning"
- Honorable Mentions
- Christian Fritz for his dissertation “Monitoring the Generation and Execution of Optimal Plans”
ICAPS Influential Paper Award 2009
- Winners
- Blai Bonet and Hector Geffner for "Planning as Heuristic Search: New Results", published in ECP 1999
- Drew McDermott for "A Heuristic Estimator for Means-Ends Analysis in Planning", published in AIPS 1996
- Honorable Mention
- Kutluhan Erol, James Hendler and Dana Nau. UMCP: A Sound and Complete Procedure for Hierarchical Task-Network Planning, published in AIPS 1994
ICAPS Best Dissertation Award 2009
- Winner
- Daniel Bryce for his dissertation "Scalable Planning under Uncertainty"
- Honorable Mentions
- Guy Shani for his dissertation "Learning and Solving Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes"
- Shahid Jabbar for his dissertation "External Memory Algorithms for State Space Exploration in Model Checking and Action Planning"
- Menkes van den Briel for his dissertation "Integer Programming Approaches for Automated Planning"
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 dissertation "Using Online Algorithms to Solve NP-Hard Problems More Efficiently in Practice"
- Honorable Mention
- Mausam for his dissertation "Stochastic Planning with Concurrent, Durative Actions"
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 dissertation "Verification and Planning for Stochastic Processes with Asynchronous Events"
- Honorable Mention
- Daniel Bernstein for his dissertation "Complexity Analysis and Optimal Algorithms for Decentralized Decision Making "
- Patrik Haslum for his dissertation "Admissible Heuristics for Automated Planning"
- Malte Helmert for his dissertation "Solving Planning Tasks in Theory and Practice"
