Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Planning

This volume contains the papers accepted for presentation at the Sixth European Conference on Planning, (ECP 2001) held in Toledo, Spain, from September 12-14, 2001. The papers included in this volume are those selected for plenary presentation. They present the latest advances in the field of automated planning and scheduling at the time, ranging in scope from theoretical analyses of planning and scheduling problems and processes, to algorithms for planning and scheduling under various constraints and assumptions, and the empirical evaluation of planning and scheduling techniques. They reflect research trends in subareas such as optimal planning, probabilistic and nondeterministic planning, and new developments in heuristics for planning algorithms.