[PlanetKR] 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:

 1.

    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.

 2.

    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:

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    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.

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    Papers should have been published between January 2025 and the
    submission deadline.

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    Papers that are in press may be submitted as long as the final
    camera-ready version is available.

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    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 
<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

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    Submission deadline: March 18

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    Notification of acceptance: April 15

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    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.
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