lanning and Scheduling are optimisation problems which require finding a set of actions to complete a task, to achieve a goal, or to optimise one or more objectives. Effective solutions to planning and scheduling problems are critical for a variety of important application areas, including Industry 4.0, aerospace systems, supply chain management, software engineering, robotics, education, digital entertainment and more.

The International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling ICAPS is the premier forum for new research results on the theory and applications of planning and scheduling technology. The 35th edition of the ICAPS conference series will be held in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), from November 9th to 14th, 2025. The program committee of ICAPS 2025 invites paper submissions on all aspects of automated planning and scheduling. Contributions are welcome in each of the following categories:

Theoretical papers, which broaden or improve the set of analytical tools used to study planning and scheduling problems and algorithms. Examples include complexity results, expressiveness and new theoretical frameworks.
Algorithmic papers, which describe novel perspectives and substantial (qualitative or quantitative) improvements for solving planning and scheduling problems. Examples include new optimisations or specialisations of existing algorithms, new propagators, new decomposition approaches etc.
Modelling papers, which describe new representations of planning and scheduling problems and their solutions. Examples include new mathematical frameworks for existing problems, original descriptions of emerging problems and refinements of existing frameworks for knowledge representation of actions, goals, states, or other rigorously defined concepts.
Position papers, which contribute thoughtful critiques or bold new perspectives of the field. Examples include meta-analysis of research trends, descriptions of new challenge problems suitable for planning and scheduling, historical perspectives and analysis of the field and technical discussions of various implementation techniques.
Tools papers, which describe systems that are of use and of interest to the planning and scheduling community, and which are built using novel algorithmic and engineering techniques. Examples include: integrated planning systems, model checkers and synthesis tools, libraries to construct, manage and transform representations of planning and scheduling problems, applications for visualising, benchmarking and comparing planners or other types of tools, etc.
All submissions to the main technical track must be classified in terms of one or more high-level topics, and one or more relevant subject-matter keywords, which are within the scope of the conference. A list of relevant topics and subject matter keywords are available from the ICAPS 2025 homepage.

Key Dates
The reference timezone for all deadlines is UTC-12. That is, the deadline has not passed as long as there is still time anywhere in the world.

October 1, 2024 - Submission site opens
October 25, 2024 - Abstracts due
November 1, 2024 - Full papers due (electronic submission, PDF)
November 15 2024 - Desk reject notification
December 16, 2024 - Phase 1 author notification
January 27-31, 2024 - Author feedback period
February 28, 2025 - Phase 2 author notification
The submission schedule of ICAPS 2025 is designed with authors in mind, offering multiple opportunities to revise and resubmit. For example, to ICAPS 2025 following Phase 1 reject from AAAI 2024, and to IJCAI 2025, following Phase 1 reject from ICAPS 2025.