[Event at CIG] [meetings] Call for Papers - 13th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2025)

[AndreA Orlandini]

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Call for papers

International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 2025

Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2025)

Melbourne, Australia
November 10-11, 2025

*Description*
AI Planning & Scheduling (P&S) methods are key to enabling intelligent 
robots to perform autonomous, flexible, and interactive behaviours. 
Researchers in the P&S community have continued to develop approaches 
and produce planners, representations, as well as heuristics that 
robotics researchers can make use of. However, there remain numerous 
challenges complicating the uptake, use and successful integration of 
P&S technology in robotics, many of which have been addressed by 
robotics researchers with novel solutions. Strong collaboration and 
synergy between researchers in both communities is vital to the 
continued growth of the fields in a way that provide mutual benefits to 
the two communities. To foster this, the PlanRob workshop aims to 
provide a stable, long-term forum (having been held annually at ICAPS 
since 2013) where researchers from both the P&S and Robotics communities 
can openly discuss relevant issues, research and development progress, 
future directions and open challenges related to P&S when applied to 
Robotics. In addition to the usual paper submissions, the workshop’s 
format naturally lends itself to preliminary results, position papers as 
well as to work focused on challenges in using and integrating planners 
in robotics systems.

*Topics of interest*
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- human-aware planning and execution in human-robot interaction,
- real-world planning applications for autonomous and intelligent robots,
- planning domain representations for robotics applications,
- optimising behaviour in large scale automated or semi-automated systems,
- integrated planning and execution in robot architectures,
- learning methods for robot planning and scheduling,
- P&S methods for optimisation and adaptation in robotics,
- mission, path, and motion planning for robots,
- formal methods for robot planning and control,
- challenges and solutions in using P&S technology in robotics,
- open problems for P&S in robotics,
- coordination of multi-robot teams,
- benchmark planning domains for robots,
- adversarial action planning in competitive robot domains,
- mixed-initiative planning and sliding autonomy for robotic systems.

*Important Dates*
Paper submission: June 30, 2025
Notification: July 20, 2025
Workshop: November 11, 2025

*Submission*
There are two types of submissions:

- short position papers (four pages)
- regular papers (up to 10 pages)

Papers may have an additional page containing references. Regular papers 
may be scheduled with more time in the final program. A poster session 
may be considered to provide a further presentation opportunity.

The guidelines for formatting are the same as is used for ICAPS 2025 
papers (typeset in the AAAI style as described at: 
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php), but with the AAAI 
copyright removed. The papers must be submitted in PDF format via the 
EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icapswsplanrob25).

Please note that papers under review (e.g. which have been submitted to 
IJCAI-2025) are also welcome, however, in order to avoid potential 
conflicts, these manuscripts should be prepared as anonymous submissions 
for a double blind reviewing process.

Accepted papers will be published on the workshop’s website.

The organisers are investigating the availability of journal editors in 
order to invite a selection of accepted papers from the workshop to a 
special issue or post-proceedings volume.



*Organizing Committee*
Zlatan Ajanović,
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
zlatan.ajanovic at ml.rwth-aachen.de

Iman Awaad,
Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
iman.awaad at h-brs.de

Alberto Finzi,
Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy
alberto.finzi at unina.it

AndreA Orlandini,
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Italy
andrea.orlandini at istc.cnr.it

*Program Committee (To Be Completed)*
- Zlatan Ajanovic, TU Delft
- Iman Awaad, Bonn Rhein Sieg University of Applied Sciences
- Roman Barták, Charles University
- Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University
- Riccardo Caccavale, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II
- Magí Dalmau Moreno, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Riccardo De Benedictis, CNR - National Research Council of Italy
- Alberto Finzi, Universita' di Napoli Federico II
- Nick Hawes, University of Oxford
- Jane Jean Kiam, Universität der Bundeswehr München
- Senka Krivic, University of Sarajevo
- Oscar Lima, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence - DFKI
- Tim Niemueller, Intrinsic Innovation GmbH
- AndreA Orlandini, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISTC)
- Ron Petrick, Heriot-Watt University
- Sebastian Stock, German Research Center for Artificial Intellegence, DFKI
- Elisa Tosello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
- Alessandro Umbrico, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISTC)
- Pulkit Verma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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