ICAPS 2025 Outstanding Paper Awards
The award adjudication process consisted of three steps. Accepted submissions were split into the student and general categories. Each set of papers was sorted in descending order of their review scores, using the scores attained by the end of the reviewing period. The two top papers in each category were then presented to the ICAPS 2025 topic chairs for evaluation, who then cast a vote to determine the winner and provided a rationale for their decision. Neither conference nor program chairs were involved in the decision making of these awards.
Best Paper Awards
This year, the award is shared amongst two submissions, which tied for the winning spot.
Diego Aineto and Enrico Scala
Cost-Optimal FOND Planning as Bi-Objective Best-First Search
Saman Ahmadi, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Andrea Raith, Daniel Harabor and Mahdi Jalili
Parallelizing Multi-objective A* Search
Best Student Paper Award
Nuraddin Kerimov, Aleksandr Onegin and Konstantin Yakovlev
Safe Interval Randomized Path Planinng For Manipulators
Best Student Paper Award (Honourable Mention)
Paul Zaidins, Robert P. Goldman, Ugur Kuter, Dana S. Nau and Mark Roberts
HTN Plan Repair Algorithms Compared: Strengths and Weaknesses of Different Methods
ICAPS 2025 Outstanding Dissertation Award
Augusto Blaas Correa
Planning with Different Representations
Pulkit Verma
Data-Efficient Paradigms for Personalized Assessment of Taskable AI Systems
ICAPS 2025 Outstanding Dissertation Award (Honourable Mention)
Ryo Kuroiwa
Domain-Independent Dynamic Programming
Matteo Cardellini
Symbolic Pattern Planning
ICAPS 2025 Influential Paper Award
Jendrik Seipp and Malte Helmert
Counterexample-Guided Cartesian Abstraction Refinement
ICAPS 2013
For more information about outstanding dissertation and influential paper awards, please visit the ICAPS Awards page.