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+**Registration is open (deadline Oct 16): https://www.regonline.com/fss15**
 ==== Sequential Decision Making for Intelligent Agents ====
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 http://masplan.org/sdmia
-== Call for Papers ==
+  * [[sdmia_accepted_papers|List of Accepted Papers]]
+  * [[sdmia_schedule|Schedule]]
-Sequential decision making under uncertainty (SDM) is a powerful paradigm for probabilistic planning. The emergence of various models that analyze it under different sets of assumptions, e.g., as single- and multi-agent Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and Partially Observable MDPs (POMDPs), has gone hand in hand with the split of this field into many subareas,  each with a quite distinct research community. The SDMIA Fall Symposium aims to bring the researchers of computational sequential decision making under uncertainty together, in order to facilitate the cross-pollination of ideas across these communities and thus accelerate the development of the larger field. The symposium will have ample room for discussions and interaction. Furthermore, we intend to reflect on the current state of the field, both in terms of theory and applications, and, more importantly, ways to shape its future.
+  * [[sdmia_invited_speakers|Invited Speakers]]
+  * [[sdmia_cfp|Call for Papers]]
-== Topics ==
+  * [[#organizing_committee|Organizing Committee]]
-We invite submissions, both original as well as previously published, dealing with the general topic of sequential decision making under uncertainty. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
-  * Novel insights in modeling sequential decision making (SDM)
-  * Recent advances in solution methods
-  * Benchmark problems and benchmarking
-  * Real-world applications and application domains
-  * Model specification and induction
-  * Methods for transferring solutions from one model to another
-We particularly encourage contributions that have the potential to make an impact on different sub-fields of SDM, but this is not a requirement.
+=== Overview of the symposium ===
-== Submission Instructions ==
+Sequential decision making under uncertainty has gained significant traction at major AI conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI, AAMAS (Best Paper award 2014 on this topic) and ICAPS. In many applications, dealing explicitly with uncertainty regarding the effects of actions, state of the environment and possibly the behavior of other agents is crucial to achieve satisfactory task performance. Decision-theoretic planning models like the Markov Decision Process (MDP), the Partially Observable MDP (POMDP) and their many multiagent extensions have emerged as the dominant paradigm for this purpose.
-The symposium will accept 1) extended abstracts (2 pages) of previously published papers, 2) papers describing novel work or work in progress (8 pages), and 3) position statements (8 pages). Submissions should be made in the provided LaTeX template. The submission link can be found at:
+Since its emergence as a subfield of Operations Research, sequential decision making under uncertainty has itself split into many subareas. Within AI, for example, computational aspects of this problem have been analyzed by modelling it under a range of assumptions --- as fully observable MDPs, partially observable MDPs, multiagent sequential decision making (MSDM), under full and partial knowledge of parameters, etc. --- with a distinct community of researchers focusing on each model. Some of these communities meet each other regularly, but there is no forum dedicated to sequential decision making under uncertainty in AI where all these communities meet simultaneously. This AAAI Fall Symposium
-https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sdmia2015
+aims to bring the researchers of computational sequential decision making under uncertainty together, in the hope that their sharing of ideas with each other will lead to breakthroughs that would be unlikely within any single community on its own.
-All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral  presentation and papers will be made available on-line. Selected papers can be published in the AAAI Press Technical Reports series.
+The format of the symposium is designed to maximize the interaction in a relatively large group of experts in the field. We envision the following elements, which will be grouped together in thematic sessions:
+  * Invited talks by highly regarded members of one of the sub-communities.
+  * Shorter contributed talks (see [[sdmia_cfp#submission_instructions|Submission Instructions]]).
+  * Panel discussions on specific topics, with a focus on the future of the field.
+  * Demonstrations of software and tools.
+  * Plenty of time for breaks to encourage informal discussions.
-At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the symposium to present the work. A small student travel fund is available.
+Invited speakers ([[sdmia_invited_speakers|titles and abstracts]])
+  * Craig Boutilier, [[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~cebly/|Google]]
+  * Emma Brunskill, [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ebrun/|CMU]]
+  * Alan Fern, [[http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~afern/|Oregon State]]
+  * Mykel Kochenderfer, [[http://mykel.kochenderfer.com/|Stanford]]
+  * Milind Tambe, [[http://teamcore.usc.edu/tambe/|USC]]
+  * Jason Williams, [[http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/jawillia/|Microsoft Research]]
+  * Shlomo Zilberstein, [[http://rbr.cs.umass.edu/shlomo/|UMass Amherst]]
-== Organizing Committee ==
+=== Organizing Committee ===
 Matthijs Spaan (chair), Delft University of Technology, <m.t.j.spaan@tudelft.nl>\\