CFP: PR-BGI Workshop at ICAPS 2026

[Guang Hu]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite submissions to the PR-BGI workshop at ICAPS 2026, on Planning and Reasoning about Beliefs, Goals, and Intentions.

The workshop focuses on planning and inference methods for reasoning about other agents’ beliefs, goals, and intentions, with an emphasis on interaction, coordination, and practical autonomous systems in shared environments.

Please find the call for papers below. We would greatly appreciate it if you could consider submitting relevant work and share this CFP with interested colleagues and students.

Best regards,

Guang Hu

On behalf of the PR-BGI organizing committee

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PLANNING AND REASONING ABOUT BELIEFS, GOALS, AND INTENTIONS (PR-BGI)

Workshop @ ICAPS 2026

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Date: 27 or 28 June 2026 (TBD)

Webpage: https://icaps26.icaps-conference.org/program/workshops/pr_bgi/

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DESCRIPTION

We invite submissions to the workshop on Planning and Reasoning about Beliefs, Goals, and Intentions (PR-BGI). This workshop focuses on enabling autonomous agents to effectively operate in shared environments alongside other agents and humans.

Modern autonomous systems, such as robots, delivery vehicles, and drones, must reason about the behaviour and expectations of others. In many scenarios, explicit communication is limited or unavailable, making it essential for agents to reason about others’ beliefs, goals, and intentions in order to coordinate and interact effectively.

Research areas such as epistemic planning, goal recognition, intention recognition, and theory of mind provide principled approaches to this problem. However, these methods are often developed in isolation and face challenges in scalability, integration, and real-world deployment.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to bridge the gap between methods for reasoning about other agents’ beliefs, goals, and intentions and the practical requirements of autonomous systems operating in shared environments. The focus is on understanding how planning-based and inference-based approaches can support interaction and coordination in realistic scenarios, and how real-world constraints, such as decentralization, limited communication, and human involvement, should inform future theoretical work.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Epistemic planning

- Reasoning about individual, group, and distributed beliefs

- Goal recognition and intention recognition

- Planning in multi-agent and human–agent settings

- Decentralized and interaction-aware planning

- Trade-offs between expressiveness, scalability, and deployability

- Empirical evaluation, benchmarks, and real-world case studies

We particularly encourage submissions that highlight practical challenges, design trade-offs, and lessons learned from real-world applications.

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We invite the following types of submissions:

- Full technical papers (up to 9 pages, excluding references)

- Short technical papers (up to 5 pages, excluding references)

- Position papers discussing open challenges, new perspectives, negative results, or practical experiences (up to 5 pages, excluding references)

All submissions will be peer-reviewed based on relevance, quality, and their potential to stimulate discussion. We plan for accepted papers to be included in the archival workshop proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop and present the work.

Submission details, formatting instructions, and submission link can be found on the workshop webpage: https://icaps26.icaps-conference.org/program/workshops/pr_bgi/

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IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper Submission Deadline: May 18, 2026

- Notification of Acceptance: June 10, 2026

- Camera-Ready Deadline: July 10, 2026

- Workshop Date: 27 or 28 June 2026 (TBD)

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Organizing Committee:

- Dr. Chenyuan Zhang (Monash University / University of Melbourne)

- Dr. Guang Hu (University of Melbourne)

- Dr. Alessandro Burigana (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)

- Dr. Francesco Fabiano (University of Oxford)

- Prof. Tim Miller (University of Queensland)