Organizing and Consulting Committees

Deterministic Part

    • Alfonso Gerevini, University of Brescia, Italy (chair)
    • Yannis Dimopoulos, Unversity of Cyprus, Cyprus
    • Patrik Haslum, Linkoeping University, Sweden
    • Alessandro Saetti, University of Brescia, Italy

    • Stefan Edelkamp, University of Dortmund, Germany
    • Maria Fox, University of Strathclyde, UK
    • Joerg Hoffmann, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany
    • Derek Long, University of Strathclyde, UK
    • David Smith, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
    • Drew McDermott, Yale University, USA
    • Len Schubert, University of Rochester, USA
    • Ivan Serina, University of Strathclyde, UK
    • Dan Weld, University of Washington, USA


The deterministic part is organized by two groups of people: an organizing committee, that is in charge of the various activities for running the competition, and a consulting committee, that was mainly involved in the early phase of the organization to discuss an extension to the language of the competition (PDDL) to be used in IPC-5.

Probabilistic Part

    • Blai Bonet, Universidad Simn Bolvar, Venezuela (co-chair)
    • Robert Givan, Purdue University, Indiana (U.S.A.) (co-chair)

    • Hector Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
    • Sylvie Thiebaux, Australian National University, Australia