6th Italian Workshop on Planning and Scheduling (IPS 2015)

In the last fifteen years, AI planning and scheduling techniques have been characterized by an impressive increase of their performances in terms of size of problems solved and complexity of the solutions produced. These improvements are related to the definition of new data structures which can efficiently encode and make explicit constraints that are only implicitly defined in problem formulation, and to the definition of heuristics that allow one to visit only the most promising parts of the search space. Interestingly, an increasing number of systems started to adopt planning and scheduling techniques in order to afford complex application contexts, and obtaining solutions that better fit the problem constraints and the users’ needs. This volume contains selected papers presented at IPS 2015, the 6th Italian Workshop on Planning and Scheduling held in Ferrara, Italy, September 22nd, 2015.1 IPS 2015 was held within the 14th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2015), and gathered together researchers interested in different aspects of planning and scheduling, and introduced new researchers to the community. For this edition of IPS, the call for papers solicited submissions of two different types: full papers and short papers. Full technical papers reported work in progress or completed work, while short papers reported views or ambitions of the field, or described open problems. Twelve papers