Preface

The papers in this proceedings present the latest advances in the field of automated planning and scheduling, ranging in scope from theoretical analyses of planning and scheduling problems and processes, to new algorithms for planning and scheduling under various constraints and assumptions, and the empirical evaluation of planning and scheduling techniques. They reflect recent research trends in subareas such as optimal planning, probabilistic and nondeterministic planning, path planning, multiagent planning, and new developments in heuristics and their analysis for planning algorithms.