SoCS 2025: Deadline Extension
Enrico SCALA
Last Call for Papers with Deadline Extension
The 18th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search
https://socs25.search-conference.org/
August 12-15, 2025
University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
co-located with CP and SAT
Paper submission deadline: March 19, 2025 March 26, 2025
You are cordially invited to submit your new research findings to the 18th Symposium of Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2025), jointly organized with SAT 2025 and CP 2025 in Glasgow, UK, from August 12 to August 15, 2024. The joint conference already starts on August 10th, with the first two days devoted to CP and SAT workshops and doctoral consortiums only. The SoCS Doctoral Consortium will be organized during the SoCS conference days as usual.
Heuristic search and other forms of combinatorial search and optimization are very active areas of research in artificial intelligence, robotics, planning, constraint programming, meta-reasoning, navigation, bioinformatics, and other areas of computer science and operations research. The International Symposium on Combinatorial Search is meant to bring researchers in such areas together to exchange their ideas and cross-fertilize the field. We especially invite submissions presenting real-world applications of heuristic search.
With CP 2025 and SAT 2025 co-located this year, we particularly welcome papers that explore the intersections between our research topics and the problems studied by these communities.
All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings published by AAAI Press as usual.
Important Dates
Paper abstract submission deadline: March 12, 2025 March 19, 2025 (11:59 PM UTC-12)
Paper submission deadline: March 19, 2025 March 26, 2025 (11:59 PM UTC-12) - no further extension possible
Author response period: May 2 - May 5, 2025
Notification: May 16, 2025
Types of Submissions
Technical papers: Original long (up to 8 pages plus up to one page of references) and short (up to 4 pages plus up to one page of references) papers.
Position papers: Original long (up to 8 pages plus up to one page of references) and short (up to 4 pages plus up to one page of references) position papers.
Extended abstracts: Extended abstracts (up to 2 pages including references) of original work, work-in-progress, or work that has recently appeared in or is under review at other venues.
See more details at https://socs25.search-conference.org/call-for-papers
Best Paper Awards
Technical papers will be considered for the best paper award. If the main authors, both in terms of work and writing, are students at the time of submission, the paper will be considered for a best student paper award.
Doctoral Consortium
As part of the Doctoral Consortium, SoCS will provide graduate students with an opportunity to get in-depth advice from senior members regarding careers and research skills. SoCS will aim to provide student support, partly covering travel and/or registration costs through a separate scholarship application process. Participation in the DC, however, is a requirement for students receiving travel assistance. The submission deadline is May 7, 2025.
For further information about the doctoral consortium, see more details at https://socs25.search-conference.org/doctoral-consortium
Conference Chairs
Maxim Likhachev, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (ma...@cs.cmu.edu)
Hana Rudová, Masaryk University, Czech Republic (ha...@fi.muni.cz)
Enrico Scala, University of Brescia, Italy (enrico...@unibs.it)
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Lukáš Chrpa, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic (chrp...@cvut.cz)
Francesco Percassi, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom (f.per...@hud.ac.uk)
Local Arrangements Chair
Ciaran Mccreesh, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (ciaran....@glasgow.ac.uk)
