The International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) is the premier forum for exchanging news and research results on the theory and applications of intelligent and automated planning and scheduling technology. ICAPS 2025 is part of the ICAPS conference series. ICAPS 2025, the 35th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, will take place in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in November 2025. ICAPS invites paper submissions related to automated planning and scheduling. Relevant contributions include, but are not limited to:
- Theoretical and empirical studies of planning and scheduling problems and algorithms;
- Novel techniques and approaches that extend the scope and scale of problems that can be solved;
- Novel tools and frameworks for analysing and verifying the properties of systems executing plans, policies or schedules;
- Studies of applying automated planning and scheduling technologies to significant problems with deep technical insight.
ICAPS 2025 will be collocated with the following events:
- KR-2025: The 22nd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.
- CPAIOR-2025: The 22nd International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research.
- A summer school.
Community Update - 2nd September 2024
The ICAPS 2025 program committee is working on preparing the Call for Papers for the Conference which we expect to start disseminating very soon. In the meantime, we have prepared a community update to explain upcoming changes to the conference. These changes affect how papers will be submitted, how they will be reviewed, and how the program committee will be formed.
Our first update is a video presentation explaining the result of our conference co-design process with the ICAPS council. The co-design impacts the reviewing and submission protocols at ICAPS in 2025 and is recommended for all members of the ICAPS community. You can find the video on this link.
Our second update is about how to get involved with ICAPS 2025. Following a successful initiative in 2024, we will ask community members to volunteer for roles on the ICAPS 2025 program committee. Openings are available for Topic Chairs, Area Chairs, and Reviewers. A description of each of these roles can be found here. If you want to volunteer before we start our mailing campaign, please submit an expression of interest via the Google form on this link.
Our third update covers the introduction of a more structured classification system for submissions, which extends and evolves the system introduced at ICAPS 2024. These changes have several goals: (i) to clarify the scope and types of contributions relevant to the conference, (ii) to broaden participation in the conference, and (iii) to increase the likelihood that expert reviewers and area chairs are matched to appropriate submissions by OpenReview and our in-house automated assignment systems. You can find more information about our paper classification system in its dedicated section on the ICAPS 2025 website.