In my field of automated planning, almost all research is published at conferences. We also publish in journals, but this is rather rare.

Below, I list the "most fitting" conferences where I or my PhD students either usually publish, or could publish. That is, all those conferences focus on planning or more generally symbolic AI, including other forms of combinatorial optimization like SAT solving, ILPs, and of course many more (in contrast to AI conferences that focus on Machine Learning or robotics, for example, which my group is not working on).

In the future, I might also list journals. If you have recommendations, please send them them through.

Target Conferences for mostly Symbolic AI

The conferences are more or less ordered by importance (for my team).

A* conferences

  • AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
  • AAMAS (International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems)
  • ICAPS (International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling)
  • IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • KR (International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning)

A conferences

  • CCC (Computational Complexity Conference)
  • CP (International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming)
  • ECAI (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • ICLP (International Conference on Logic Programming)
  • JELIA (European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence)
  • UAI (Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence)

B conferences

  • AJCAI (Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
    Note that the official rank is "Australasian B", which might be slightly lower than B.
  • CPAIOR (International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research)
  • ICAART (International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence)
  • ICTAI (International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence)
  • PRICAI (Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • SoCS (Symposium on Combinatorial Search)
    Officially, this conference is (sadly) only ranked B, but it's considered A by most people in our community

International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research

Target Conferences for LLM-related work

Since I've very recently started to use LLMs in my research (specifically for model creation or model repair), I list conferences where that work might be submitted to also. I list them separately since these conferences usually have a completely different focus from the ones listed above (yet, LLM-related work can also be published at the above conferences).

A* conferences

  • ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning)
  • NeurIPS (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems)

B conferences

  • COLING (International Conference on Computational Linguistics)