Location: Singapore Expo (Room TBD)
What This Workshop Is About
The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem is at the heart of a wide range of deployed systems, including warehouse automation, autonomous aircraft towing, service robots, and video game crowd simulation. MAPF asks to compute collision-free trajectories that move a set of agents (e.g., robotic manipulators and warehouse robots) from specified start to goal configurations while optimising a global objective, typically the sum of travel costs or the makespan. For many such objectives the problem is NP-hard, and even achieving meaningful approximation guarantees is intractable, making high-quality real-time planning a persistent challenge. This workshop aims to bring these researchers together to present their research, discuss future research directions, and cross-fertilize the different communities.
Important Dates
| Event | Date |
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| Paper Submission Deadline | |
| Notifications Sent to Authors | |
| AAAI-26 Early Registration Deadline | November 16, 2025 (11:59 Eastern Time) |
| Workshop Date | January 26, 2026 |
Call for Contributions
Submission Site: https://openreview.net/group?id=AAAI.org/2026/Workshop/WoMAPF
We invite high-quality paper submissions focusing on Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF). Selected papers will be invited to be presented in a lightning talk or poster session during the workshop, and a best paper award will be chosen among the participants. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Search-, rule-, reduction-, reactive-, and learning-based planners
- Planning and execution algorithms for dynamic or uncertain environments
- Decentralised MAPF and multi-agent reinforcement learning
- Kinodynamically feasible multi-agent planning
- Planning in continuous time and space
- Customised MAPF planners for real robots
- Cooperation in heterogeneous robot teams
- Surveys of MAPF modeling, solvers, or benchmarks
- Multi-robot or human-multi-robot collaboration
- Multi-agent LLM systems with MAPF methods
- Live demo of relevant software or hardware systems
There is no required format for the submissions. If possible, we recommend the AAAI 2026 style. The workshop is non-archival.
We encourage interested participants to submit ongoing research as well as recent publications. All submissions will follow a single-blind review process conducted by a Program Committee assembled from the organizers, the advisory board, and other experts in the field.
Accepted papers will be made available on the workshop website and the authors will be invited to present their work as a short talk during the workshop and/or as a poster.
Conference Program
| 08:55 - 09:00 |
Welcome Talk
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| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Invited Talk 1
Alex Barbosa, Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics
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| 09:45 - 10:00 | Tea Break |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Paper Presentation Session 1
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| 11:00 - 11:15 | Tea Break |
| 11:15 - 12:00 |
Invited Talk 2
TBD
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| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch & Poster Session |
| 14:00 - 15:00 |
Paper Presentation Session 2
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| 15:00 - 15:15 | Tea Break |
| 15:15 - 16:00 |
Paper Presentation Session 3
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| 16:00 - 16:15 | Tea Break |
| 16:15 - 17:30 |
Panel Discussion Session
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| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Community Discussion & Close Talk
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Workshop Organizers
Advisory Committee
Daniel Harabor
Monash University
Jiaoyang Li
Carnegie Mellon University
Guillaume Sartoretti
National University of Singapore
Mor Vered
Monash University
Contact Us
For any questions or inquiries, please email andy.li@monash.edu