Workshop on Planning and Reasoning about Beliefs, Goals and Intentions (PR-BGI)

ICAPS 2026 Workshop
Dublin, Ireland June 28-29, 2026

Aim and Scope of the Workshop

We invite submissions to the workshop on Planning and Reasoning about Beliefs, Goals, and Intentions (PR-BGI). This workshop focuses on enabling autonomous agents to effectively operate in shared environments alongside other agents and human. Modern autonomous systems, such as robots, delivery vehicles, and drones, must reason about the behaviour and expectations of others. In many scenarios, explicit communication is limited or unavailable, making it essential for agents to reason about others’ beliefs, goals, and intentions in order to coordinate and interact effectively. Research areas such as epistemic planning, goal recognition, intention recognition, and theory of mind provide principled approaches to this problem. However, these methods are often developed in isolation and face challenges in scalability, integration, and real-world deployment. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to bridge the gap between methods for reasoning about other agents’ beliefs, goals, and intentions and the practical requirements of autonomous systems operating in shared environments. The focus is on understanding how planning-based and inference-based approaches can support interaction and coordination in realistic scenarios, and how real-world constraints, such as decentralization, limited communication, and human involvement, should inform future theoretical work.

Topics of Interest

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Epistemic planning
  • Reasoning about individual, group, and distributed beliefs
  • Goal recognition and intention recognition
  • Planning in multi-agent and human–agent settings
  • Decentralized and interaction-aware planning
  • Trade-offs between expressiveness, scalability, and deployability
  • Empirical evaluation, benchmarks, and real-world case studies

We particularly encourage submissions that highlight practical challenges, design trade-offs, and lessons learned from real-world applications.

Submission Instructions

We invite the following types of submissions:

  • Full technical papers (up to 9 pages, excluding references)
  • Short technical papers (up to 5 pages, excluding references)
  • Position papers discussing open challenges, new perspectives, negative results, or practical experiences (up to 5 pages, excluding references)

All submissions will be peer-reviewed based on relevance, quality, and their potential to stimulate discussion. We plan for accepted papers to be included in the archival workshop proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop and present the work.

Submissions will be hosted on ChairingTool Please ensure that you have registered with ChairingTool.

Papers must be prepared according to the instructions for ICAPS 2026 (in AAAI format) available at: Paper template.

Important Dates

  • Paper submission deadline: May 18, 2026 UTC-12

  • Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2026 UTC-12

  • Camera-ready paper submissions: TBD

  • Workshop date: June 28/29 (TBD), 2026

Organizing Committee