Workshop on Hierarchical Planning (HPlan)

The workshop for Hierarchical Planning (HPlan) was founded in 2018 and is carried out every year since then at the International Conference of Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS).

Each individual workshop webpage is hosted by the respective ICAPS website. You can use the following forwards:

Note that this very page you are reading right now can also be accessed via hplan.hierarchical-task.net.

Interested in becoming a PC member? Please drop Pascal and Ron, or the entire team of the respective year, an email!

Interested in presenting your already published work? Same! :) Drop Pascal and Ron, or the entire team of said year, an email.

Invited talks

In the very first year, to kick off the workshop series, we had two invited speakers. In all other years, where timing was also more constrained, we had only one:

  • 2025: Roman Barták: From Validation to Correction: Towards Autonomous Agents Based on Hierarchical Planning
  • 2024: Daniel Höller: HTN Planning as Heuristic Progression Search in the PANDA Framework
  • 2023: Hector Munoz-Avila: Automated Learning of Hierarchical Knowledge for Planning and Acting
  • 2022: Ugur Kuter: Hierarchies in Decentralized Collaborative Planning
  • 2021: Malik Ghallab: Hierarchical Online Reasoning for the Integration of Planning and Acting
  • 2020: Robert P. Goldman: HTN Planning: Interactions of Theory and Practice
  • 2019: Dana Nau: Hierarchical Refinement as a Generalization of HTN Planning
  • 2018: Susanne Biundo: Enabling Advanced User Support through Hybrid Planning
  • 2018: David E. Smith: Characterizing Tasks in the Cockpit

Please note that the workshop also has its own YouTube channel, where you find most presented papers as well as all invited talks in the COVID years since everything went online. We also upload some other talks related to hierarchical planning.

List of HPlan Publications

Please note that papers that were accepted at the workshop and simultaneously at a conference were listed on the website and in the proceedings but not included in the proceedings to prevent copyright issues. When follow-up versions were later accepted at a conference there's a note stating so.

Note that also the entire proceedings are listed.