Call for Papers: 9th ICAPS Workshop on Human-Aware and Explainable Planning (HAXP)
Stylianos Loukas Vasileiou
Topics of Interest
The workshop includes - but is not limited to - the following topics:
- Human-aware planning, scheduling, and execution.
- Human monitoring, plan & goal recognition, and behavior prediction.
- Mixed-initiative planning and scheduling systems.
- Learning methods for planning/scheduling in the presence of humans.
- Explanations of behavior in sequential decision-making/decision-support.
- Explanation of scheduling/allocation decisions to human stakeholders.
- Improving interpretability and explainability of AI planning/scheduling systems.
- Generating predictable and interpretable behavior.
- Methods for reward, goal, preference, or constraint specification for reinforcement learning agents.
- Creating interpretable and adaptive user interfaces for planning/scheduling systems.
- Proactive assistance and decision-support in human-AI collaborative scenarios.
- Cognitive modeling, social interaction, and theory of mind.
- Safety, ethics, fairness, transparency and responsible behavior generation in the context of planning/scheduling systems.
- Representation and acquisition of human behavioral models.
- Theories and applications of human behavior models.
- Trust, communication, and collaboration in human-AI teams.
- Benchmarking planning/scheduling domains for human-AI interaction.
- Large language models in human-aware planning & scheduling.
Paper submission deadline: May 10, 2026 UTC-12
Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2026 UTC-12
Camera-ready paper submissions: TBD
Workshop date: June 27/28 (TBD), 2026
We invite submissions of the following types:
- Full technical papers making an original contribution; up to 9 pages including references.
- Short technical papers making an original contribution; up to 5 pages including references.
- Position papers proposing HAXP challenges, outlining HAXP ideas, debating issues relevant to HAXP; up to 5 pages including references.
Submissions will be hosted on ChairingTool Please ensure that you have registered with ChairingTool.
Papers must be prepared according to the instructions for ICAPS 2026 (in AAAI format) available at: Paper template
Every submission will be reviewed by members of the program committee according to the usual criteria such as relevance to the workshop, the significance of the contribution, and technical quality. Submissions are double-blind.
The workshop is meant to be an open and inclusive forum, and we encourage papers that report on work in progress or that do not fit the mold of a typical conference paper. Authors who are considering submitting to the workshop papers rejected from the main conference, please ensure you do your best to address the comments given by ICAPS reviewers.
Organizing Committee
- Benjamin Krarup | King’s College London, UK
- Alan Lindsay | Heriot-Watt University, UK
- Silvia Tulli | Sorbonne University, France
- Stylianos Loukas Vasileiou | New Mexico State University, USA
- Chenyuan Zhang | Monash University, Australia
- Jeremy Frank | NASA Ames Research Center, USA
- Claudia Goldman | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Jörg Hoffmann | Saarland University, Germany
- Subbarao Kambhampati | Arizona State University, USA
- David Smith | PS Research, USA
- William Yeoh | Washington University in St. Louis, USA