(Schedule Overview)


Monday, November 10, 2025 - Workshops and Tutorials ↑ Back to Navigation

Session 1 (8:30 - 10:00)

Room 1 (80 capacity)
PRL - Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and Reinforcement Learning

Room 2 (80 capacity)
OPTIMA - Industry Workshop: Smarter Decision-Making in Action

Room 3 (40 capacity)
HPlan - Hierarchical Planning

Room 4 (40 capacity)
PlanRob - Planning and Robotics

Room 6 (25 capacity)
HAXP - Human-Aware and Explainable Planning

Coffee Break (10:00 - 10:30)

Session 2 (10:30 - 12:00)

Room 1 (80 capacity)
PRL - Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and Reinforcement Learning

Room 2 (80 capacity)
OPTIMA - Industry Workshop: Smarter Decision-Making in Action

Room 3 (40 capacity)
HPlan - Hierarchical Planning

Room 4 (40 capacity)
PlanRob - Planning and Robotics

Room 6 (25 capacity)
HAXP - Human-Aware and Explainable Planning

Lunch Break (12:00 - 13:30)

Session 3 (13:30 - 15:00)

Room 1 (80 capacity)
PRL - Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and Reinforcement Learning

Room 3 (40 capacity)
KEPS - Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling

Room 4 (40 capacity)
PlanRob - Planning and Robotics

Room 5 (25 capacity)
Tutorial: MiniZinc - Constraint Programming for Planning

Room 6 (25 capacity)
HAXP - Human-Aware and Explainable Planning

Coffee Break (15:00 - 15:30)

Session 4 (15:30 - 17:00)

Room 1 (80 capacity)
PRL - Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and Reinforcement Learning

Room 3 (40 capacity)
KEPS - Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling

Room 5 (25 capacity)
Tutorial: MiniZinc - Constraint Programming for Planning

Room 6 (25 capacity)
HAXP - Human-Aware and Explainable Planning


Tuesday, November 11, 2025 - Workshops and Tutorials ↑ Back to Navigation

Session 1 (8:30 - 10:00)

Room 1 (80 capacity)
LM4Plan - Planning in the Era of LLMs

Room 2 (80 capacity)
HSDIP - Heuristics and Search for Domain-Independent Planning

Room 3 (40 capacity)
RIPL - Reliability In Planning and Learning

Room 5 (25 capacity)
Tutorial: LTLf Synthesis

KR Venue
KRPlan - Knowledge Representation Meets Automated Planning
See details in KR program

Coffee Break (10:00 - 10:30)

Session 2 (10:30 - 12:00)

Room 1 (80 capacity)
LM4Plan - Planning in the Era of LLMs

Room 2 (80 capacity)
HSDIP - Heuristics and Search for Domain-Independent Planning

Room 3 (40 capacity)
RIPL - Reliability In Planning and Learning

Room 4 (40 capacity)
Tutorial: Planning as SAT

KR Venue
KRPlan - Knowledge Representation Meets Automated Planning
See details in KR program

Lunch Break (12:00 - 13:30)

Session 3 (13:30 - 15:00)

Room 1 (80 capacity)
LM4Plan - Planning in the Era of LLMs

Room 3 (40 capacity)
RIPL - Reliability In Planning and Learning

Room 4 (40 capacity)
CASP - Constraint Answer Set Programming

KR Venue
KRPlan - Knowledge Representation Meets Automated Planning
See details in KR program

Coffee Break (15:00 - 15:30)

Session 4 (15:30 - 17:00)

Room 1 (80 capacity)
LM4Plan - Planning in the Era of LLMs

Room 4 (40 capacity)
CASP - Constraint Answer Set Programming

KR Venue
KRPlan - Knowledge Representation Meets Automated Planning
See details in KR program

Opening Reception at RMIT alumni Courtyard (17:30 - 19:30)

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 - Main Conference Day 1 ↑ Back to Navigation

Opening Remarks (8:40 - 9:00) - Forum 1
Keynote (9:00 - 10:00)
Location: Forum 1
Hanna Kurniawati (Colocated with CPAIOR)
Coffee Break (10:00 - 10:30)
Session 1 (10:30 - 11:50)
Numeric and Temporal Planning I
Location: Forum 1 | Session Chair: TBA

L1 (10:30 - 10:50) - Platform-Aware Mission Planning
Stefan Panjkovic, Alessandro Cimatti, Andrea Micheli, Stefano Tonetta
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L3 (10:50 - 11:10) - Temporal Numeric Planning with Patterns
Matteo Cardellini, Enrico Giunchiglia
[Journal Track]

L5 (11:10 - 11:30) - A Flow Based Planning Method for Multi-Agent Progression with Deployable Agents and Communication Constraints
Emile Siboulet, Roland Godet, Arthur Bit-Monnot, Marc-Emmanuel Coupvent des Graviers, Christophe GUETTIER, Simon Lacroix
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L7 (11:30 - 11:50) - Analyzing Launch Operations using the Spaceport Throughput Analysis Resource (STAR)
Jeremy Frank, Richard Levinson, Vijayakumar Baskaran, Jeffrey S Brink
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Classical Planning I
Location: Forum 2 | Session Chair: TBA

L2 (10:30 - 10:50) - A Formalism for Optimal Search with Dynamic Heuristics
Remo Christen, Florian Pommerening, Clemens Büchner, Malte Helmert
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L4 (10:50 - 11:10) - Pseudo-Boolean Proof Logging for Optimal Classical Planning
Simon Dold, Malte Helmert, Jakob Nordström, Gabriele Röger, Tanja Schindler
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L6 (11:10 - 11:30) - Delete-Free Planning with Object Creation is Undecidable
Augusto B. Corrêa
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L8 (11:30 - 11:50) - Alternation-Based Novelty Search
Augusto B. Corrêa, Jendrik Seipp
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CPAIOR Session
Location: Forum 3 (CPAIOR) | Session Chair: TBA

See CPAIOR Program for details

Lunch Break (12:00 - 13:30)
Session 2 (13:30 - 14:50)
Alternative Formulations of Classical Planning
Location: Forum 1 | Session Chair: TBA

L9 (13:30 - 13:50) - On the Gains from Using Action Observations in Domain Repair
Alba Gragera, Raquel Fuentetaja, Angel Garcia Olaya, Fernando Fernández
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L11 (13:50 - 14:10) - Strategies to Improve Goal Selection in Satisficing Oversubscription Planning
Angel Garcia Olaya, Patricia J. Riddle, Mike Barley
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L13 (14:10 - 14:30) - On Generating Robust Plans and Linear Execution Strategies in Planning Against Nature
Lukas Chrpa, Erez Karpas
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L15 (14:30 - 14:50) - Speed vs Accuracy in Goal Recognition for Time-Sensitive Applications: a Game-Theoretic Approach
Sara Bernardini, Fabio Fagnani, Santiago Franco
[Journal Track]

Non-Deterministic Planning I
Location: Forum 2 | Session Chair: TBA

L10 (13:30 - 13:50) - Observation Adaptation via Annealed Importance Resampling for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
Yunuo Zhang, Baiting Luo, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Abhishek Dubey
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L12 (13:50 - 14:10) - Partially Observable Monte-Carlo Graph Search
YANG YOU, Vincent Thomas, Alex Schutz, Robert Skilton, Nick Hawes, Olivier Buffet
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L14 (14:10 - 14:30) - Landmark-Assisted Monte Carlo Planning
David H. Chana, Mark Roberts, Dana S. Nau
[Journal Track]

L16 (14:30 - 14:50) - Cost-Optimal FOND Planning as Bi-Objective Best-First Search
Diego Aineto, Enrico Scala
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CPAIOR Session
Location: Forum 3 (CPAIOR) | Session Chair: TBA

See CPAIOR Program for details

Coffee Break (15:00 - 15:30)
Session 3 (15:30 - 16:50)
Machine Learning in Planning and Scheduling I
Location: Forum 1 | Session Chair: TBA

L17 (15:30 - 15:50) - Per-Domain Generalizing Policies: On Validation Instances and Scaling Behavior
Timo P. Gros, Nicola J. Müller, Daniel Fišer, Isabel Valera, Verena Wolf, Jörg Hoffmann
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L19 (15:50 - 16:10) - Learning Efficiency Meets Symmetry Breaking
Yingbin Bai, Sylvie Thiebaux, Felipe Trevizan
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L21 (16:10 - 16:30) - On Picking Good Policies: Leveraging Action-Policy Testing in Policy Training
Jan Eisenhut, Daniel Fišer, Isabel Valera, Jörg Hoffmann
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Search in Planning and Scheduling I
Location: Forum 2 | Session Chair: TBA

L18 (15:30 - 15:50) - Rack Position Optimization in Large-Scale Heterogeneous Data Centers
Chang-Lin Chen, Jiayu Chen, Tian Lan, Zhaoxia Zhao, Hongbo Dong, Vaneet Aggarwal
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L20 (15:50 - 16:10) - Quality Diversity for Variational Quantum Circuit Optimization
Maximilian Zorn, Jonas Stein, Maximilian Balthasar Mansky, Philipp Altmann, Michael Kölle, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
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L22 (16:10 - 16:30) - New Exact Methods for Solving Quadratic Traveling Salesman Problem
Yuxiao Chen, Anubhav Singh, Ryo Kuroiwa, Chris Beck
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CPAIOR Session
Location: Forum 3 (CPAIOR) | Session Chair: TBA

See CPAIOR Program for details

Demo and Poster Sessions (16:50 - 18:00)

Thursday, November 13, 2025 - Main Conference Day 2 ↑ Back to Navigation

Keynote (9:00 - 10:00)
Location: Forum 1
Bistra Dilkina (Colocated with CPAIOR)
Coffee Break (10:00 - 10:30)
Session 1 (10:30 - 11:50)
LLMs in Planning and Scheduling I
Location: Forum 1 | Session Chair: TBA

L23 (10:30 - 10:50) - Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling in the LLM Era
Mauro Vallati, Roman Barták, Lukas Chrpa, Thomas Leo McCluskey, Ron Petrick
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L25 (10:50 - 11:10) - Revisiting LLMs in Planning from Literature Review: a Semi-Automated Analysis Approach and Evolving Categories Representing Shifting Perspectives
Vishal Pallagani, Nitin Gupta, Bharath Chandra Muppasani, Biplav Srivastava
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L27 (11:10 - 11:30) - On Planning Through LLMs
Mattia Chiari, Luca Putelli, Nicholas Rossetti, Ivan Serina, Alfonso Gerevini
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L29 (11:30 - 11:50) - Chasing Progress, Not Perfection: Revisiting Strategies for End-to-End LLM Plan Generation
Sukai Huang, Nir Lipovetzky
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Numeric and Temporal Planning II
Location: Forum 2 | Session Chair: TBA

L24 (10:30 - 10:50) - A Sampling Approach to Planning with Infinite Domain Control Variables
Ángel Aso-Mollar, Diego Aineto, Enrico Scala, Eva Onaindia
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L26 (10:50 - 11:10) - Initial Condition Retrieving for Hybrid and Numeric Planning Problems
Matteo Cardellini, Francesco Percassi, Marco Maratea, Mauro Vallati
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L28 (11:10 - 11:30) - On the Notion of Plan Quality for PDDL+
Francesco Percassi, Enrico Scala, Mauro Vallati
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L30 (11:30 - 11:50) - A Lazy Approach to Neural Numerical Planning with Control Parameters
René Heescha, Alessandro Cimatti, Jonas Ehrhardta, Alexander Diedricha, Oliver Niggemanna
[Journal Track]

CPAIOR Session
Location: Forum 3 (CPAIOR) | Session Chair: TBA

See CPAIOR Program for details

Lunch Break (12:00 - 13:30)
Session 2 (13:30 - 14:50)
Numeric and Temporal Planning III
Location: Forum 1 | Session Chair: TBA

L31 (13:30 - 13:50) - On Using Lazy Greedy Best-First Search with Subgoaling Relaxation in Numeric Planning Problems
Enrico Scala, Luigi Bonassi
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L33 (13:50 - 14:10) - A* for Bounding Shortest Paths in the Graphs of Convex Sets
Kaarthik Sundar, Sivakumar Rathinam
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L35 (14:10 - 14:30) - Safe Interval Randomized Path Planning For Manipulators
Nuraddin Kerimov, Aleksandr Onegin, Konstantin Yakovlev
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L37 (14:30 - 14:50) - State-Based Disassembly Planning
Chao Lei, Nir Lipovetzky, Krista A. Ehinger
[Journal Track]

Hierarchical Task Networks I & Non-Deterministic Planning II
Location: Forum 2 | Session Chair: TBA

L32 (13:30 - 13:50) - SibylSatOpt: a MaxSAT-based Greedy Optimal Search for TOHTN Planning
Gaspard Quenard, Damien Pellier, Humbert FIORINO
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L34 (13:50 - 14:10) - HTN Plan Repair Algorithms Compared: Strengths and Weaknesses of Different Methods
Paul Zaidins, Robert P. Goldman, Ugur Kuter, Dana S. Nau, Mark Roberts
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L36 (14:10 - 14:30) - Agent Planning Programs as Non-deterministic Planning under Fairness
Nitin Yadav, Sebastian Sardina, Hector Geffner
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L38 (14:30 - 14:50) - LTLf Adaptive Synthesis for Multi-Tier Goals in Nondeterministic Domains
Giuseppe De Giacomo, Gianmarco Parretti, Shufang Zhu
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CPAIOR Session
Location: Forum 3 (CPAIOR) | Session Chair: TBA

See CPAIOR Program for details

Coffee Break (15:00 - 15:30)
Community Meeting & Awards (15:30 - 16:50)
Evening: Banquet at Ormond College (Walking distance from Conference Venue)

Friday, November 14, 2025 - Main Conference Day 3 (Joint ICAPS & KR) ↑ Back to Navigation

Keynote (9:30 - 10:30)
Location: Forum 1
Son Tran (Colocated with KR)
Coffee Break (10:30 - 11:00)
Session 1 (11:00 - 12:20)
Search in Planning and Scheduling II
Location: Forum 1 (ICAPS) | Session Chair: TBA

L39 (11:00 - 11:20) - Parallelizing Multi-objective A* Search
Saman Ahmadi, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Andrea Raith, Daniel Harabor, Mahdi Jalili
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L41 (11:20 - 11:40) - Parallel Greedy Best-First Search with a Bound on Expansions Relative to Sequential Search
Takumi Shimoda, Alex Fukunaga
[Journal Track]

L43 (11:40 - 12:00) - Instance-based Approximation Guarantees for Graph-based Nearest Neighbor Search
Yannick Bosch, Sabine Storandt
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L45 (12:00 - 12:20) - Posthoc: The Visualisation Platform for Search
Kevin Zheng, Daniel Harabor, Michael Wybrow
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Machine Learning in Planning and Scheduling II
Location: Forum 2 (ICAPS) | Session Chair: TBA

L40 (11:00 - 11:20) - Leveraging Action Relational Structures for Integrated Learning and Planning
Ryan Xiao Wang, Felipe Trevizan
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L42 (11:20 - 11:40) - Is This Plan Necessarily Redundant? On the Computational Complexity of Unobserved Domain Learning
Pascal Bachor, P. Maurice Dekker, Gregor Behnke
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L44 (11:40 - 12:00) - Learning Lifted STRIPS Models from Action Traces alone: A Simple, General, and Scalable Solution
Jonas Gösgens, Niklas Jansen, Hector Geffner
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L46 (12:00 - 12:20) - Lifted action models learning from partial traces
Leonardo Lamanna, Luciano Serafini, Alessandro Saetti, Alfonso Emilio Gerevini, Paolo Traverso
[Journal Track]

KR Session
Location: Forum 3 (KR) | Session Chair: TBA

See KR Program for details

Lunch - Provided jointly with KR (12:30 - 13:30)
Session 2 (13:30 - 14:50)
Hierarchical Task Networks II
Location: Forum 1 (ICAPS) | Session Chair: TBA

L47 (13:30 - 13:50) - How Good is Perfect? On the Incompleteness of A* for Total-Order HTN Planning
Mohammad Yousefi, Mario Schmautz, Patrik Haslum, Pascal Tobias Bercher
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L49 (13:50 - 14:10) - Tight Bounds for Lifted HTN Plan Verification and Bounded Plan Existence
Pascal Lauer, S.T. Lin, Pascal Tobias Bercher
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L51 (14:10 - 14:30) - Landmark Generation in HTN Planning Revisited
Victor Scherer Putrich, Felipe Meneguzzi, André Grahl Pereira
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L53 (14:30 - 14:50) - Hardness of Chosen Length Planning Games and Regular Fixed Methods FOND HTN Planning
P. Maurice Dekker, Gregor Behnke
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Non-Deterministic Planning III
Location: Forum 2 (ICAPS) | Session Chair: TBA

L48 (13:30 - 13:50) - Going Topological in Multi-risk Extended Markov Ratio Decision Processes
Alexander Zadorojniy, Orit Davidovich, Takayuki Osogami
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L50 (13:50 - 14:10) - Howard’s Policy Iteration is Subexponential for Deterministic Markov Decision Problems with Rewards of Fixed Bit-size and Arbitrary Discount Factor
Dibyangshu Mukherjee, Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan
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L52 (14:10 - 14:30) - An Improved Lower Bound on the Length of Locally-Improving Policy Sequences in MDPs with Large Action Sets
Pratyush Agarwal, Mulinti Shaik Wajid, Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan
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L54 (14:30 - 14:50) - HDDLGym: A Tool for Studying Multi-Agent Hierarchical Problems Defined in HDDL with OpenAI Gym
Ngoc La, Ruaridh Mon-Williams, Julie Shah
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KR Session
Location: Forum 3 (KR) | Session Chair: TBA

See KR Program for details

Coffee Break (15:00 - 15:30)
Session 3 (15:30 - 16:30)
Classical Planning II
Location: Forum 1 (ICAPS) | Session Chair: TBA

L55 (15:30 - 15:50) - Potential Heuristics: Weakening Consistency Constraints
Pascal Lauer, Daniel Fišer
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L57 (15:50 - 16:10) - Continuing the Quest for Polynomial Time Heuristics in PDDL Input Size: Tractable Cases for Lifted h^{add}
Pascal Lauer, Alvaro Torralba, Daniel Höller, Jörg Hoffmann
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L59 (16:10 - 16:30) - Count-Based Novelty Exploration in Classical Planning
Giacomo Rosa, Nir Lipovetzky
[Journal Track]

LLMs in Automated Planning & Scheduling II
Location: Forum 2 (ICAPS) | Session Chair: TBA

L56 (15:30 - 15:50) - Automating the Generation of Prompts for LLM-based Action Choice in PDDL Planning
Katharina Stein, Daniel Fišer, Jörg Hoffmann, Alexander Koller
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L58 (15:50 - 16:10) - DynTaskMAS: A Dynamic Task Graph-driven Framework for Asynchronous and Parallel LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
Junwei Yu, Yepeng Ding, Hiroyuki Sato
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KR Session
Location: Forum 3 (KR) | Session Chair: TBA

See KR Program for details

Social Drinks (16:30 - 18:00)

Note: Each paper presentation is allocated approximately 20 minutes including Q&A. Detailed paper titles and authors will be announced closer to the conference. Please check the Accepted Papers page for the full list of accepted papers.