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The formatting guidelines (author kit, etc.) are the same as for ICAPS 2026. There will be a high quality double-blind review process against the standard criteria of significance, soundness, scholarship, clarity, and reproducibility. However, submissions may be less evolved than at the main conference.
We have two categories:
Technical research papers are like standard conference papers, but may be less evolved. The purpose of challenge papers is to report on or to make aware of interesting/important problems in Hierarchical Planning and to encourage discussion at the workshop -- not to make and present some significant contribution.
Authors may submit long papers (up to 8 pages plus up to one page of references) or short papers (up to 4 pages plus up to one page of references). The purpose of short papers is to encourage publications of more preliminary results; challenge papers need to be short papers. In case of acceptance, the full 9, resp. 5, pages can be used for the paper.
Submissions will be done via easychair (system isn't open/set up yet).
We encourage the submission of papers that, at the time of submission, are under review at another conference such as SoCS and NeurIPS, for example. However, if the paper is also accepted at the respective conference, it will not be included in our proceedings (you will have to let us know in that case). The paper will be included into the program, but the proceedings will only contain a link to the respective conference's version.
We are still in contact with possible speakers, but we are sure to have an exciting talk again! :)
The program will be announced shortly before the workshop. For now, we know that:
We give our authors a short period after the conference (roughly two weeks) to make updates to their papers in case they receive helpful feedback during the poster session/conference. We hence publish the entire proceedings after that time window. Note that we include page numbers due to these proceedings, but like in all years, all papers are non-archival.
This list will be provided shortly after acceptance announcement.
Here, we will list all papers that got accepted by us, but simultaneously by another venue (and were hence not included in our proceedings to prevent copyright issues). In the proceedings, we also provide a link to such papers instead.
In each year, we allow the presentation of papers that have previously been accepted at another venue. This allows authors to present their work directly to the hierarchical planning community. (Sometimes we also poke people encouraging them to do this; but everybody can reach out ans ask!)
The list of papers will be announced before the workshop.
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