ICAPS 2026 Previously Published Research Track - Call for Papers
Jendrik Seipp
ICAPS 2026 Previously Published Research Track
The program committee of the 36th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) invites submissions of published papers for the Previously Published Research Track.
The track is designed to provide a forum to discuss important results related to automated planning and scheduling that appeared recently (from January 2025 onwards) in top-tier journals or conferences, but have not been previously presented at ICAPS. Papers presented at KR 2025, which was colocated with ICAPS 2025, are not eligible.
The goal of this track is twofold:
To provide authors with an opportunity to present at the conference important results relevant to planning and scheduling published elsewhere. Papers that differ from the traditional ICAPS format and topics are welcome.
To broaden the program with lines of work at the intersection between planning/scheduling and related fields such as, for example, constraint programming, operations research, control, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, multi-agent systems, robotics, transportation, computer games, and cognitive science. Papers that use planning and scheduling in some innovative way (even if they do not advance the planning technology itself) are also welcome.
Paper Presentation
At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register for ICAPS 2026 and to present the paper. Complete citations, abstracts and URLs of the original papers (if available from the publisher) will be published on the ICAPS 2026 website as a permanent reference. This is a non-archival track, and so no copyright will be transferred for accepted papers.
Submission Requirements
Submissions must meet the following criteria:
Candidate papers must be published in either (1) a journal such as (but not limited to) AIJ, IJRR, INFORMS, JAIR, JAAMAS, JMLR, MLJ, OPRE, EJOR, and other leading journals relevant to each research area; or (2) a conference such as AAAI, AAMAS, CP, ECAI, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, IJCAI, IROS, NeurIPS, etc.
Papers should have been published between January 2025 and the submission deadline.
Papers that are in press may be submitted as long as the final camera-ready version is available.
Submissions will be reviewed based on the strength of the new content and how it complements the planned program for ICAPS 2026.
We expect to accept only a select number of submissions that complement the ICAPS 2026 program, and this is in no way a direct reflection of the quality of work. I.e., we may need to reject several high-quality works due to space and research relevance to the program.
Submission Process
All submissions are done via this Google form: https://forms.gle/XRBpKA5WFB6P1Hin9
Submissions will go through an expedited selection process. Selection criteria include the significance of the results, relevance to the planning and scheduling community, and alignment with the current program of accepted papers.
Summary of Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 18
Notification of acceptance: April 15
ICAPS main conference: June 27 - July 2, 2026
The reference timezone for all deadlines is UTC-12 (AoE time). That is, as long as there is still some place Anywhere on Earth where the deadline has not yet passed, you are on time.
If you have any inquiries related to the track, please contact the Previously Published Research Track chairs Jendrik Seipp and Sylvie Thiébaux.