The 2014 International Planning Competition: Progress and Trends

We review the 2014 International Planning Competition (IPC-2014), the eighth

in a series of competitions starting in 1998. IPC-2014 was held in three separate

parts to assess state-of-the-art in three prominent areas of planning research: the

deterministic (classical) part (IPCD), the learning part (IPCL), and the probabilistic

part (IPPC). Each part evaluated planning systems in ways that pushed the edge of

existing planner performance by introducing new challenges, novel tasks, or both.

The competition surpassed again the number of competitors than its predecessor,

highlighting the competition’s central role in shaping the landscape of ongoing

developments in evaluating planning systems.