Call for Papers
We welcome submissions on collision-free path planning, navigation, routing, coordination, and execution for multiple agents, including research papers, position papers, surveys, benchmark reports, and software or hardware demonstrations.
Topics
- Planning methods
- Search-, rule-, reduction-, reactive-, and learning-based planners.
- MAPF variants
- Variants and generalizations of the MAPF problem.
- Integrated planning and execution
- MAPF combined with task allocation, scheduling, execution monitoring, and replanning.
- Uncertainty and failures
- Delays, limited communication, dynamic environments, uncertainty, and execution failures.
- Centralized, decentralized, and learned coordination
- Centralized and decentralized MAPF, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and learning-guided coordination.
- Real robots and applications
- Real-world applications and robot-specific kinematic, dynamic, geometric, and safety constraints.
- Benchmarks and demonstrations
- Benchmarks and software or hardware demonstrations of MAPF systems.
Important Dates
Find submission, notification, registration, camera-ready, and workshop dates here.
Check Information for Authors for more details.
Workshop CFP Due to AAAI-
Oct. 2, 2026 - Paper Submission Deadline
- Nov. 20, 2026
- Notifications Sent to Authors
- Dec. 2, 2026
- AAAI-27 Early Registration Deadline
- To be announced
- Camera Ready Deadline for Submitted Papers
- To be announced
- AAAI-27 Workshops
- Feb. 22–23, 2027
Information for Authors
- Submission site
- Submissions and reviews will be managed through Microsoft CMT. Authors must have a Microsoft CMT account before submitting a paper.
- Format and length
- Submissions should follow the AAAI-27 format. There is no page limit.
- Eligible work
- New, ongoing, recently published, or concurrently reviewed work. Prior or concurrent submissions may use their original format or a shorter version but must be clearly labeled and comply with applicable copyright and venue policies.
- Review process
- All submissions will undergo light review for quality and relevance to the workshop. The review process is single-blind with at least two reviews per submission; authors would not need to anonymize their papers.
- Publication
- The workshop is non-archival. Workshop notes or an online collection will document the work presented. Final-material submission instructions and the camera-ready deadline will be announced.
- Presentation
- The workshop will be held in person in Montréal, Canada. Paper presentations are planned for 10 minutes, including 1–2 minutes for questions. A poster session will take place during lunch; software and hardware demonstrations are subject to venue facilities. Presentation assignments and preparation instructions will be announced. Any remote participation option is subject to AAAI approval.
CMT Acknowledgment
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.