[PlanetKR] Call for Papers: UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (UK PlanSIG) 2026

[Ron Petrick]

*Call for Papers: UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (UK
PlanSIG) 2026*

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
February 9-10, 2026
https://www.plansig.uk/

The UK PlanSIG workshop is a regular forum where academics, industrialists,
and research students can meet and discuss current issues in an informal
setting. We especially aim to bring together researchers investigating
different aspects of planning and scheduling problems, and to introduce new
researchers to the community. In past years, UK PlanSIG has attracted an
international gathering, and we continue to welcome contributions from
around the world.

Submissions are now being solicited for UK PlanSIG 2026. Each contribution
will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the UK PlanSIG web
proceedings. Authors of papers describing work already published must
clearly indicate this information in their submission.

*Important Dates*

Submissions: January 9, 2026 (UTC-12)
Notification: January 23, 2026
Camera-ready: February 2, 2026
Workshop: February 9-10, 2026

*Topics of Interest*

UK PlanSIG accepts papers on all aspects of research and applications in
the field of automated planning and scheduling. Topics of interest include
(but are not limited to):

   - *Algorithms:* Novel planning and scheduling algorithms.
   - *Applications:* Empirical studies of existing planning/scheduling
   systems; domain-specific techniques; heuristic techniques; user interfaces
   for planning and scheduling; evaluation metrics for plans/schedules.
   Examples of real-world problems are particularly welcomed.
   - *Architectures:* Real-time support for planning/scheduling/control;
   mixed initiative planning and user interfaces; integration of planning and
   scheduling; continuous planning systems; planning and scheduling in
   autonomous systems.
   - *Constraint-based Planning/Scheduling and Control Techniques:*
   Constraint/preference propagation techniques, variable/value ordering
   heuristics, intelligent backtracking, iterative repair heuristics, etc.
   - *Coordination Issues in Decentralised/Distributed planning/scheduling:*
   Coordination issues in both homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, system
   architecture issues, integration of strategic and tactical decision making;
   collaborative planning/scheduling.
   - *Environmental and Task Models:* Analyses of the dynamics of
   environments, tasks, and domains with regard to different models of
   planning and execution.
   - *Explainable Planning:* Explainability of planning models, algorithms,
   and plans; human aware planning; human-in-the-loop planning;
   representations and frameworks for explainability.
   - *Formal Models:* Reasoning about knowledge, action, and time;
   representations and ontologies for planning and scheduling; analysis of
   search methods and planning algorithms.
   - *Generative AI techniques for planning:* Use of generative AI models
   and LLMs/VLMs/VLAs for domain acquisition, plan generation, and planning
   applications.
   - *Intelligent Agency:* Resource-bounded reasoning; distributed problem
   solving; integrating reaction and deliberation.
   - *Knowledge engineering for planning:* Domain construction tools and
   techniques, knowledge elicitation, ontology development.
   - *Learning:* Learning in the context of planning and execution; model
   acquisition; plan and operator learning; learning in the context of
   scheduling and schedule maintenance.
   - *Planning/scheduling under uncertainty:* Coping with uncertain,
   incomplete, or changing domains, environments and problems; application of
   uncertainty reasoning techniques to planning/scheduling, including MDPs,
   POMDPs, Belief Networks, stochastic programming, and stochastic
   satisfiability.
   - *Plan Recognition:* Techniques for identifying plans, actions, and
   goals; connections between plan recognition and traditional planning
   approaches/representations.
   - *Reactive Systems:* Environmentally driven devices/behaviours;
   reactive control; behaviour in the context of minimal representations;
   schedule maintenance.
   - *Robotics:* Motion and path planning; planning and control; planning
   and perception; robotics applications.
   - *Verification and Validation:* V&V approaches for planning models,
   algorithms, and plans/schedules.

*Submissions*

We welcome two categories of paper submissions:

   - *Long papers:* (maximum 8 pages + 1 page references): These papers
   should report on work in progress or completed work. Authors of long papers
   that are accepted will be invited to give a talk on the paper.
   - *Short papers:* (2-4 pages + 1 page references): These papers should
   report on views, ambitions, or problems. The author(s) will be able to
   discuss the paper informally with others at the workshop and will be
   invited to give a short presentation on their work.

Authors of papers describing work already published must clearly indicate
this information in their submission.

*Formatting*

All submissions must be formatted in AAAI format using the latest author
kit: https://aaai.org/authorkit26-1/. Please refer to the author
instructions on the AAAI web site for detailed formatting instructions and
LaTeX style files. Final papers will be in the same format. The AAAI
copyright notice does not need to appear on your papers.

*Submission*

Paper submission is through EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=ukplansig2026

*Proceedings*

All papers will be made freely available through the UK PlanSIG 2026
website, but authors retain copyright and are free to publish their papers
elsewhere. We welcome the use of UK PlanSIG to improve manuscripts that are
later submitted at a more prestigious international venue.

*Organisation*

   - Ron Petrick, Heriot-Watt University, UK
   - Mohan Sridharan, University of Edinburgh, UK
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