International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)

International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)

Conference positioning

International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) is a top computer-science conference venue for automated planning, scheduling, search, temporal reasoning, and decision processes. It rewards a planning paper with formal problem structure and empirical or theoretical planner evidence. Treat this skill as a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool for conference submission strategy, not as a substitute for the current year's CFP, author kit, ethics policy, or submission portal.

Because CS conferences change deadlines, templates, page limits, review workflow, artifact rules, AI-use policy, and rebuttal formats every cycle, always verify the live official instructions before making a submission-ready recommendation. Start from the official source anchor recorded for this venue in ../../resources/conference-roster.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md.

When to trigger

• The author names ICAPS / International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling as the target venue.
• A manuscript in automated planning needs a conference-fit read before being formatted or submitted.
• The paper must be re-framed from journal style or arXiv style into a selective CS conference narrative.
• The author needs an evidence-gap, anonymity, artifact, rebuttal, or re-routing diagnosis for this venue.

Scope & topic fit

• Core fit: automated planning, scheduling, search, temporal reasoning, and decision processes.
• Best submissions make a precise contribution type visible: algorithm, theorem, system, dataset, benchmark, empirical finding, design artifact, tool, or socio-technical analysis.
• The paper should explain why the result matters to ICAPS's reviewers, not just why it is interesting to the authors' lab or product context.
• Position related work against the most recent conference-cycle papers in this venue and its closest siblings; stale comparisons are a common early-review weakness.
• If the contribution is interdisciplinary, state which part is CS research and which part is domain evidence.

Venue-specific calibration

• Reviewer lens: Treat ICAPS as automated planning and scheduling: search spaces, temporal/resource constraints, planners, heuristics, and benchmark domains are central. It is not a generic AI venue for any algorithmic paper.
• Contribution hook to foreground: the venue-specific contribution bar.
• Scope vocabulary to use naturally in the abstract and introduction: automated planning, scheduling, search, temporal reasoning, and decision processes.
• Distinctive fingerprint for reviewer calibration: automated, planning, scheduling, search, temporal, reasoning, decision, processes, venue-specific, contribution, icaps-conference.
• Official anchor domain: icaps-conference.org. Quote annual rules only after opening that source and the current-year CFP/author kit.

Close-neighbor routing guardrail

• Use this profile only when the manuscript's central contribution is genuinely in planning and scheduling and the author can say why ICAPS reviewers are the primary audience, not merely a convenient deadline.
• Closest roster neighbors to compare before final routing: international-semantic-web- conference (ISWC), international-conference-on-knowledge-capture (K-CAP), international- conference-on-principles-of-knowledge-representation-and-reasoning (KR), international- conference-on-autonomous-agents-and-multiagent-systems (AAMAS). Break ties by contribution