Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group 2026 (UK PlanSIG 2026)

Informatics Forum
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
9-10 February 2026

Papers

Long Papers

• Finding Human-Aligned Abstractions Efficiently for Explaining Plan Quality Differences
  Benjamin Krarup, Amanda Coles, Derek Long, and David Smith  

• Experience Report: Utilising Automated Planning Techniques in the Creation of Signal Plans for Urban Traffic Control
  Lee Mccluskey, Alan Lindsay, Mauro Vallati, and Keith McCabe

• From Stories to Cities to Games: A Qualitative Evaluation of Behaviour Planning
  Mustafa Abdelwahed, Joan Espasa, Alice Toniolo, and Ian Gent

• Proper Open World Planning
  Mikhail Soutchanski

• Neural Value Iteration
  Yang You, Ufuk Çakır, Alex Schutz, and Nick Hawes

• Inspecting, Visualizing and Debugging Planning Problems with PDSim: A User Evaluation Study
  Emanuele De Pellegrin and Ron Petrick

• Reasoning, Learning, and Planning in Ad Hoc Teams
  Hasra Dodampegama and Mohan Sridharan

• Key Principles for Robot Architectures in the Era of Foundation Models
  Mohan Sridharan

• Towards Scaling Generalised Planning with Curriculum Learning and Attention-based Policies
  Isaac Symes Thompson, Alberto Caron, Chris Hicks, and Vasilios Mavroudis

• The Beta-Index: Insights into POMDP Structural Complexity
  Yang You and Nick Hawes

• Dynamic Scene Reconstruction for Planning Environments
  Albaraa Othman, Emanuele De Pellegrin, and Ron Petrick

• The MACB Problem: Definitions, Variants, and a PDDL+ Approach
  Dani Papamaximou, Rongge Guo, Francesco Percassi, and Mauro Vallati

• Case Studies in Compiling Expressive Planning With Data Types
  Carla Davesa Sureda, Joan Espasa, Mateu Villaret, and Ian Miguel

• Toward Automating Personalized Health Interventions: Joint Planning of Human and Robotic Activities with APLES
  Lorenzo James, Emanuele De Pellegrin, and Ron Petrick

Short Papers

• Planning for Marsupial Exploration in Partially-Known Environments
  Kathryn Lampo, Jana Tumova, and Nick Hawes

• Removing Planner Bias in Goal Recognition Through Multi-Plan Dataset Generation
  Mustafa Abdelwahed, Felipe Meneguzzi, Kin Max Piamolini Gusmão, and Joan Espasa

• Adapting PDDL To Work In Dynamic Environments Using Unity NavMesh And PDSim
  Ross Davidson and Alistair McConnell

• Mission Planning for Long-Term Autonomous Operation of Underwater Gliders
  Victor-Alexandru Darvariu, Bruno Lacerda, and Nick Hawes

• Towards Generating Discriminating Instances for Multi-Agent Pathfinding: a Case Study with Shelf-Based Warehouse Scenarios
  Tianchen Wu, Roman Barták, Nguyen Dang, Ian Miguel, and Jiří Švancara

Programme Committee

Emanuele De Pellegrin, University of Edinburgh, UK
Andy Edmondson, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Mary Ellen Foster, University of Glasgow, UK
Nick Hawes, Oxford University, UK
Lorenzo James, IÉSEG School of Management, France
Simon Parkinson, University of Huddersfield, UK
Ron Petrick, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Mohan Sridharan, University of Edinburgh, UK
Mauro Vallati, University of Huddersfield, UK

Organisation

Ron Petrick, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Mohan Sridharan, University of Edinburgh, UK

Sponsors

UK PlanSIG 2026 was partially supported by the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CDT-RAS) and the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Dependable and Deployable AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR).