ICAPS-26 Second Call for Papers
Alessandro Saetti
The International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) is the premier forum for new research results on the theory and applications of planning and scheduling technology. The 36th edition of the ICAPS conference series will be held in Dublin, Ireland, from June 27 to July 2, 2026.
ICAPS-26 welcomes paper submissions on all aspects of automated planning and scheduling. Planning and scheduling are to be interpreted broadly, to encompass a variety of decision-making and optimization problems involving action selection and timing. This includes domain modeling, plan and schedule synthesis, execution and monitoring, failure diagnosis, model repair, and associated learning, representation, and reasoning problems. ICAPS welcomes work on both deterministic and stochastic sequential decision-making, both with and without full observability, and both with and without factored state representations.
ICAPS-26 has a main track and four special tracks. Topics in scope for the main track include (but are definitely not limited to):
Knowledge Engineering for planning: Reasoning about actions, Reasoning about knowledge and belief;
Classical (fully-observable, deterministic) planning, Theoretical foundations of planning, Model-based reasoning;
Temporal planning, Mixed discrete/continuous planning, Optimisation of spatio-temporal systems;
Planning under uncertainty, Sequential decision making, Planning with large language models, Planning with MDPs or POMDPs, Fully observable non-deterministic planning, Planning with sensing, Representation of uncertainty;
Activity and plan recognition, Plan execution and monitoring, Re-planning and plan repair;
Scheduling, Including Scheduling Under Uncertainty and Routing;
Planning with hierarchical representations;
Planning with incomplete models, Real-time planning, Distributed and multi-agent planning, Generalised planning;
Search methods for planning and scheduling, SAT, SMT and CP, Local search and evolutionary programming, Sub-modular and gradient-free optimisation, Mathematical programming, Infinite-horizon optimal control problems, Model checking for trust, safety and robustness;
Motion and path planning, Task and motion planning, Planning for hybrid systems.
Contributions are welcome in each of the following categories:
Theoretical papers, which broaden or improve the set of analytical tools used to study planning and scheduling problems and algorithms. Examples include complexity results, expressiveness and new theoretical frameworks.
Algorithmic papers, which describe novel perspectives and substantial (qualitative or quantitative) improvements for solving planning and scheduling problems. Examples include new optimisations or specialisations of existing algorithms, new propagators, new decomposition approaches etc.
Modelling papers, which describe new representations of planning and scheduling problems and their solutions. Examples include new mathematical frameworks for existing problems, original descriptions of emerging problems and refinements of existing frameworks for knowledge representation of actions, goals, states, or other rigorously defined concepts.
Position papers, which contribute thoughtful critiques or bold new perspectives of the field. Examples include meta-analysis of research trends, descriptions of new challenge problems suitable for planning and scheduling, historical perspectives and analysis of the field and technical discussions of various implementation techniques.
Tools papers, which describe systems that are of use and of interest to the planning and scheduling community, and which are built using novel algorithmic and engineering techniques. Examples include: integrated planning systems, model checkers and synthesis tools, libraries to construct, manage and transform representations of planning and scheduling problems, applications for visualising, benchmarking and comparing planners or other major types of tools, etc.
Papers that do not address problems related to automated planning or scheduling will be rejected without review. Where the relationship of the paper to planning and scheduling is not immediately obvious, authors should make this clear in the abstract and introduction of their paper.
Special Tracks
In addition to the main track, ICAPS-26 will feature four special tracks. Each track is chaired by two prominent researchers in the field. Specialised review criteria will be applied as appropriate and papers will be assigned reviewers with specialised knowledge in the appropriate area:
Applications of Planning & Scheduling: Jeremy Frank (NASA, USA), Neil Yorke-Smith (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Human-aware Planning & Scheduling: William Yeoh (Washington University in St Louis, USA), Reuth Mirsky (Tufts University, USA)
Learning for Planning & Scheduling: Blai Bonet (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela), Akshat Kumar (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Planning & Scheduling in Robotics: Federico Pecora (Amazon Robotics, USA), Alan Fern (Oregon State University, USA)
Specific information about each special track and specific criteria can be found at https://icaps26.icaps-conference.org/calls/special_tracks/.
Key Dates
The reference timezone for all deadlines is UTC-12. That is, the deadline has not passed as long as the date applies anywhere in the world.
Abstract submission deadline: 2nd December 2025
Paper submission deadline: 8th December 2025
Author response period: 2nd-4th Feb 2026
Author notification: 20th February 2026
Further information about submission and formatting of papers can be found on the ICAPS 2026 Submissions Website: https://icaps26.icaps-conference.org/calls/cfp/.
For inquiries contact: icaps26...@gmail.com
ICAPS 2026 Program Chairs
Amanda Coles, Kings College London, UK
Wheeler Ruml, University of New Hampshire, USA
Sandhya Saisubramanian, Oregon State University, USA
ICAPS 2026 Conference Chairs
Adi Botea, Eaton, Ireland
Alfonso Emilio Gerevini, University of Brescia, Italy
