Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Submissions are now being solicited for UK PlanSIG 2026, which will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK on February 9-10, 2026. Each contribution will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the UK PlanSIG web proceedings. Authors of papers describing work already published must clearly indicate this information in their submission.
Submissions: January 9, 2026
Notification: January 23, 2026
Camera-ready: February 2, 2026
Workshop: February 9-10, 2026
UK PlanSIG accepts papers on all aspects of research and applications in the field of automated planning and scheduling. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Algorithms: Novel planning and scheduling algorithms.
Applications: Empirical studies of existing planning/scheduling systems; domain-specific techniques; heuristic techniques; user interfaces for planning and scheduling; evaluation metrics for plans/schedules. Examples of real-world problems are particularly welcomed.
Architectures: Real-time support for planning/scheduling/control; mixed initiative planning and user interfaces; integration of planning and scheduling; continuous planning systems; planning and scheduling in autonomous systems.
Constraint-based Planning/Scheduling and Control Techniques: Constraint/preference propagation techniques, variable/value ordering heuristics, intelligent backtracking, iterative repair heuristics, etc.
Coordination Issues in Decentralised/Distributed planning/scheduling: Coordination issues in both homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, system architecture issues, integration of strategic and tactical decision making; collaborative planning/scheduling.
Environmental and Task Models: Analyses of the dynamics of environments, tasks, and domains with regard to different models of planning and execution.
Explainable Planning: Explainability of planning models, algorithms, and plans; human aware planning; human-in-the-loop planning; representations and frameworks for explainability.
Formal Models: Reasoning about knowledge, action, and time; representations and ontologies for planning and scheduling; analysis of search methods and planning algorithms; formal characterisation of existing planners and schedulers.
Generative AI techniques for planning: Use of generative AI models and LLMs/VLMs/VLAs for domain acquisition, plan generation, and planning applications.
Intelligent Agency: Resource-bounded reasoning; distributed problem solving; integration of reaction and deliberation.
Knowledge engineering for planning: Domain construction tools and techniques, knowledge elicitation, ontology development.
Learning: Learning in the context of planning and execution; model acquisition; plan and operator learning; learning in the context of scheduling and schedule maintenance.
Planning/scheduling under uncertainty: Coping with uncertain, incomplete, or changing domains, environments and problems; application of uncertainty reasoning techniques to planning/scheduling, including MDPs, POMDPs, Belief Networks, stochastic programming, and stochastic satisfiability.
Plan Recognition: Techniques for identifying plans, actions, and goals; connections between plan recognition and traditional planning approaches/representations.
Reactive Systems: Environmentally driven devices/behaviours; reactive control; behaviour in the context of minimal representations; schedule maintenance.
Robotics: Motion and path planning; planning and control; planning and perception; robotics applications.
Verification and Validation: V&V approaches for planning models, algorithms, and plans/schedules.
We welcome two categories of paper submissions:
Long papers: (maximum 8 pages + 1 page references): These papers should report on work in progress or completed work. Authors of long papers that are accepted will be invited to give a talk on the paper.
Short papers: (2-4 pages + 1 page references): These papers should report on views, ambitions, or problems. The author(s) will be able to discuss the paper informally with others at the workshop and will be invited to give a short presentation on their work.
Authors of papers describing work already published must clearly indicate this information in their submission.
All submissions must be formatted in AAAI format using the latest author kit: https://aaai.org/authorkit26-1/. Please refer to the author instructions on the AAAI web site for detailed formatting instructions and LaTeX style files. Final papers will be in the same format. The AAAI copyright notice does not need to appear on papers.
Paper submission is through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=ukplansig2026
All papers will be made freely available through the UK PlanSIG 2026 website, but authors retain copyright and are free to publish their papers elsewhere. We welcome the use of UK PlanSIG to improve manuscripts that are later submitted at a more prestigious international venue.
Coming soon
Ron Petrick, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Mohan Sridharan, University of Edinburgh, UK