Symposium on Combinatorial Search

The Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS) in an international conference aimed at bringing together researchers and all others interested in all fields that use combinatorial search, including artificial intelligence, planning, robotics, constraint programming, meta-reasoning, operations research, navigation, and bioinformatics.

In addition, the conference tries to strengthen the relation with other important areas of artificial intelligence. In recent years, there has been an emphasis on robotics, automated planning, big data, and meta-reasoning.

SoCS is also an unincorporated non-profit volunteer association organized in New Hampshire (USA), with the purpose of promoting the study and understanding of combinatorial search and heuristic search algorithms among the public through the organization of scientific meetings, publications, tutorials, and other public scientific and educational activities.

The next SoCS event (SoCS 2020) is planned to be held in cyberspace.

History

The First Symposium on Combinatorial Search was held in Chicago (Illinois, USA) in 2008 as a result of various workshops that were held in previous conferences, mainly IJCAI, AAAI and ICAPS. Since then, it has been held every year, always in association with a larger event.

Although the first three symposia were held in the United States, SoCS rotates around the world, being co-located near whichever major conference the organizers target. Papers from the first two symposia (2008 and 2009) are available on the web. Since SoCS 2010, the symposium has published with AAAI Press and all accepted papers can be found in the AAAI Digital Library.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

List of past conferences
ConferenceYearCityCountryDate
SoCS 2019 2019 Napa USA July 16–17
SoCS 2018 2018 Stockholm Sweden July 14–15
SoCS 2017 2017 Pittsburgh USA June 16–17
SoCS 2016 2016 Tarrytown, New York USA July 6 to 8
SoCS 20152015Ein GediIsraelJune 11–13
SoCS 20142014PragueCzech RepublicAugust 15–17
SoCS 20132013Leavenworth (Washington)USAJuly 11–13
SoCS 20122012Niagara FallsCanadaJuly 19–21
SoCS 20112011BarcelonaSpainJuly 15–16
SoCS 20102010Atlanta (Georgia)USAJuly 8–10
SoCS 20092009Lake Arrowhead (California)USAJuly 8–10
SoCS 20082008Chicago (Illinois)USAJuly 13–14

References
  1. Felner, Ariel; Sturtevant, Nathan R. (2010). Third Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search. AAAI.
  2. Borrajo, Daniel; Likhachev, Maxim; Linares Lopez, Carlos (2011). Proceedings of the Forth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search. AAAI Press.
  3. Borrajo, Daniel; Felner, Ariel; Korf, Richard E.; Likhachev, Maxim; Linares López, Carlos; Ruml, Wheeler; Sturtevant, Nathan R. (2012). Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search. AAAI Press.
  4. Helmert, Malte; Röger, Gabriele (2013). Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search. AAAI Press.
  5. Edelkamp, Stefan; Roman, Barták (2014). Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search. AAAI Press.
  6. Lelis, Levi; Stern, Roni (2015). Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search. AAAI Press.
  7. Baier, Jorge; Botea, Adi (2016). Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search. AAAI Press.
  8. Fukunaga, Alex; Kishimoto, Akihiro (2017). Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search. AAAI Press.
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