KRPlan: Knowledge Representation Meets Automated Planning

Joint workshop at KR 2025 and ICAPS 2025
Melbourne, Australia
November 11, 2025

Description

Traditionally, the areas of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) and Automated Planning are related via common connections to logical theories of acting and sensing, robotics, and temporal logics. However, the two research areas have developed in distinct directions, with the focus of KR research being more on theoretical results, such as the complexity of logical reasoning, while Automated Planning research has produced powerful heuristic search approaches that work on large problems from industry. There is substantial research interest in the connection between the two fields, with approaches ranging from temporal reasoning about actions and goals, answer set planning, ontology-based planning specifications, epistemic planning, to planning under open-world semantics.

Knowledge Representation Meets Automated Planning (KRPlan) aims at bringing together researchers from the fields of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning and Automated Planning to discuss and develop ideas for applying state-of-the-art techniques from KR and Planning for modeling and solving complex planning and reasoning problems. We invite both theoretical and practical contributions from these areas, including but not limited to:

  • Expressive planning domain models
  • Background knowledge for planning tasks
  • Improved preprocessing and search
  • Heuristic search techniques for reasoning
  • Explanations of dynamic systems
  • Standard formats like PDDL and OWL
  • Tailored search heuristics
  • Theories of actions and processes
  • Situation calculus
  • Temporal logic reasoning
  • Answer set planning
  • Knowledge engineering

Important Dates

  • Paper submission: July 23, 2025
  • Notification: August 27, 2025
  • Workshop: November 11, 2025

Submission

We invite extended abstracts of 2-5 pages on topics related to both KR and Automated Planning. The papers should be formatted in Springer LNCS Style and submitted via EasyChair.

The workshop will only have informal proceedings and the main purpose is to encourage discussions. We welcome not only papers covering unpublished results, but also abstracts of previous publications that fall within the scope of the workshop.

Workshop Committee

Organizing Committee

Contact: krplan2025@easychair.org