Wednesday evening
9/17 3:30-5pm
Grand Lodge
Festivus: A Capsule History
• Originally conceived by Papa Costanza in an
obscure TV show
– “Airing of Grievances” an important part
• Made main-stream by a very hip conference
– “Conference is for people with papers; Festivus is for
the rest of us”
• Aim: Presentations by a panel of plaintiffs—to air
the most pressing purely technical or technosociological grievances about the planning and
scheduling community—followed by an open
discussion
• Held in 2005; 2007
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Festivus@ICAPS
• Aim: Presentations by a panel of
plaintiffs—to air the most pressing purely
technical or techno-sociological
grievances about the planning and
scheduling community—followed by an
open discussion
• Held in 2005; 2007
Do we really need another
Festivus?
Didn’t we exhaust all our
complaints?
“Too many” complaints
1. Too many
competitions!
2. Too many winners
determined by the
theoretically suspect
Borda Counts.
3. Too many parallel
sessions
But I also have innovative solutions
1. Too many
competitions!
2. Too many winners
determined by the
theoretically suspect
Borda Counts
3. Too many parallel
sessions
Probabilistic track can be won by
• ignoring
Just probabilities
do classical
Learning
tracktrack can be won by
ignoring learning
•Temporal
Allowtrack
at most
twoby
can be won
ignoring
time (in the only
planners
•
track)
Put Ronen’s papers
into a separate miniconference
Festivus Down-Under
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• Presentations by a panel of plaintiffs—to air the
most pressing purely technical or technosociological grievances about the planning and
scheduling community—followed by an open
discussion
• Design decisions:
– New plaintiffs
– Affirmative action for the young
• Originally meant for young in hair
• ..eventually extended to young at heart
Schedule
• 7 brave/plaintive souls: 5min talk+ 5min audience grilling
(35+35=70min)
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Carmel Domshlak
Robert Goldman
Steve Smith
Malik Ghallab
Brian Williams
Derek Long
Craig Knoblock
• Closing discussion (~20min)
• Off to shiver on Your Sydney 2000
Shlomo keeps the time
Caveats & Exhortations
• NOT a panel
–Every speaker talks about their own
issue (so if you don’t like the current
issue, wait for 5min and it will
change!)
• NOT a spectator sport..
– Audience participation is essential (more than
60% time reserved for questions—and
answers—from the floor)