[CFP] HAXP 2026 – Human-Aware & Explainable Planning Workshop @ ICAPS | Deadline: May 10, 2026
Silvia Tulli
Dear colleagues,
We invite you to submit to the International Workshop on Human-Aware and Explainable Planning (HAXP 2026), co-located with ICAPS 2026 in Dublin, Ireland (June 27–28, 2026).
The submission deadline is May 10, 2026. We welcome full papers, short papers, and position papers on topics at the intersection of planning, scheduling, reinforcement learning, and human-AI interaction — including explainability, mixed-initiative systems, trust, and the use of LLMs in planning.
We encourage submissions on work in progress and non-traditional formats. All details below.
Apologies for cross-posting.
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HAXP: Human-Aware and Explainable Planning
ICAPS'26 Workshop
Dublin, Ireland
June 27-28, 2026
Aim and Scope of the Workshop
As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being adopted into application solutions, the challenge of supporting effective interactions with humans is becoming more apparent. Partly this is to support integrated working styles, in which humans and intelligent systems cooperate in problem-solving, but also it is a necessary step in the process of building and calibrating trust as humans migrate greater competence and responsibility to such systems. The International Workshop on Human-Aware and Explainable Planning (HAXP), formerly known as the Explainable AI Planning (XAIP) workshop, brings together the latest and best in human-AI interaction and explainability, in the context of planning, scheduling, RL and other forms of sequential decision-making process. The workshop is collocated with ICAPS, the premier conference on automated planning and scheduling. Learn more: http://haxp.org/
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.
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline: May 10, 2026 UTC-12
- Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2026 UTC-12
- Camera-ready paper submissions: TBD
- Workshop dates: June 27-28, 2026
Submission Details
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: https://chairingtool.com/conferences/haxp26/main-track?role=author.
Please ensure that you have registered with ChairingTool. New profiles with an institutional email will be activated immediately. However, new profiles without an institutional email may take up to two weeks to be activated.
Papers must be prepared according to the instructions for ICAPS 2026 (in AAAI format) available at: https://aaai.org/authorkit26-1/.
Authors who are considering submitting to the workshop papers rejected from the main conference, please ensure you do your utmost to address the comments given by ICAPS reviewers. Please do not submit papers that are already accepted for the main conference to the workshop.
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.
At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. All participants need to register to the main ICAPS conference. There will be no separate registration required.
Organizing Committee
- Benjamin Krarup - King’s College London
- Alan Lindsay - Simplifai Systems
- Silvia Tulli - Sorbonne University
- Stylianos Loukas Vasileiou - New Mexico State University
- Chenyuan Zhang - Monash University
Steering Committee
- Jeremy Frank- NASA
- Claudia Goldman - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Jörg Hoffmann - Saarland University
- Subbarao Kambhampati - Arizona State University
- David Smith - PS Research
- William Yeoh - Washington University in St. Louis
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