International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling

The International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) is a leading international academic conference in automated planning and scheduling held annually for researchers and practitioners in planning and scheduling.^[2][3][4] ICAPS is supported by the National Science Foundation, the journal Artificial Intelligence, and other supporters.^[5]

International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
Abbreviation	ICAPS
Discipline	automated planning and scheduling, artificial intelligence
Publication details
History	1990–present[1]
Frequency	Annual
Open access	yes (https://dblp.org/db/conf/icaps/index.html and https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICAPS/issue/archive)
Website	https://www.icaps-conference.org/

The IPC and PDDL

ICAPS conducts the International Planning Competition (IPC), a competition scheduled every few years that empirically evaluates state-of-the-art planning systems on a collection of benchmark problems.^[6] The Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) was developed mainly to make the 1998/2000 International Planning Competition possible, and then evolved with each competition. PDDL is an attempt to standardize Artificial Intelligence (AI) planning languages.^[7][8] PDDL was first developed by Drew McDermott and his colleagues in 1998, inspired by STRIPS, ADL, and other sources.

History

The ICAPS conferences began in 2003 as a merge of two bi-annual conferences, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling (AIPS) and the European Conference on Planning (ECP).^[1]

List of Events

Year	Date held	Name	Location	Ref
1990		EPS	Brighton, United Kingdom	[9]
1991		EWSP	Sankt Augustin, Germany	[10]
1992		AIPS	College Park, MD, United States	[11]
1993		EWSP	Vadstena, Sweden	[12]
1994		AIPS	Chicago, IL, USA	[13]
1995		EWSP	Assisi, Italy	[14]
1996		AIPS	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	[15]
1997		ECP	Toulouse, France	[16]
1998		AIPS	Pittsburgh, PA, United States	[17]
1999		ECP	Durham, United Kingdom	[18]
2000		AIPS	Breckenridge, CO, United States	[19]
2001	12–14 September	ECP	Toledo, Spain	[20]
2002	23–27 April	AIPS	Toulouse, France	[21]
2003	9–13 June	ICAPS	Trento, Italy	[22]
2004	3–7 June	ICAPS	Whistler, Canada	[23]
2005	5–10 June	ICAPS	Monterey, CA, United States	[24]
2006	6–10 June	ICAPS	Lake District, United Kingdom	[25]
2007	22–26 September	ICAPS	Providence, RI, United States	[26]
2008	14–18 September	ICAPS	Sydney, Australia	[27]
2009	19–23 September	ICAPS	Thessaloniki, Greece	[28]
2010	12–16 May	ICAPS	Toronto, Canada	[29]
2011	11–16 June	ICAPS	Freiburg, Germany	[30]
2012	25–29 June	ICAPS	Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil	[31]
2013	10–14 June	ICAPS	Rome, Italy	[32]
2014	21–26 June	ICAPS	Portsmouth, VA, United States	[33]
2015	7–11 June	ICAPS	Jerusalem, Israel	[34]
2016	12–17 June	ICAPS	London, United Kingdom	[35]
2017	18–23 June	ICAPS	Pittsburgh, PA, United States	[36]
2018	24–29 October	ICAPS	Delft, The Netherlands	[37]
2019	11–15 July	ICAPS	Berkeley, CA, USA	[38]
2020	26–30 October	ICAPS	Nancy, France – Virtual Conference	[39]
2021	2–13 August	ICAPS	Guangzhou, China – Virtual Conference	[40]
2022	13–24 June	ICAPS	Singapore – Virtual Conference	[41]
2023	8–13 July	ICAPS	Prague, Czech Republic	[42]
2024	1–6 June	ICAPS	Banff, Canada	[43]