Reviewing -- per Venue

I first list all my reviewing responsibilities by venue. Scroll down to see my reviewing activities by year (excluding journals). Explanations on Conference/Workshop acronyms can be found at the very end.

Reviewer for Journals:

(Mostly severely outdated and years omitted -- both on purpose to maintain anonymity.)

  • Artificial Intelligence (at least 1 article)
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence (JAIR) (at least 2 articles)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (at least 1 article, awarded for outstanding reviewing)
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (at least 1 article)
  • KI – Künstliche Intelligenz (at least 3 articles in a Special Issue on Companion Technologies for which I was a guest editor)

Reviewer for Book Chapters:

  • 2025: Handbuch der Künstlichen Intelligenz (Eng.: Handbook of AI), Eds.: Görz, Schneeberger, Schmid (reviewed one chapter)
  • 2020: Handbuch der Künstlichen Intelligenz (Eng.: Handbook of AI), Eds.: Görz, Schneeberger, Schmid (reviewed one chapter)
  • 2017: Companion Technology: A Paradigm Shift in Human-Technology Interaction, Eds.: Biundo and Wendemuth (reviewed two chapters)

Senior Program Committee (SPC) Member or Area Chair (AC) at Conferences:

Clarifying the meaning of SPC and AC isn't quite easy: Not only do those expressions mean different things for different conferences, but even for the same conference series, it might mean different things in different years! So, here explain what in means for which conference in which year:

  • ICAPS: The SPC, in all years in which they existed, had the role of what's also often called a "meta-reviewer". They collect the reviews by ordinary PC members and moderate discussions. Ultimately, they recommend a final decision to the program chairs, who mostly follow this advice, but of course can flip it as well. Part of this process is writing a meta-review that justifies the final decision and thus summarizes all reviews. On top of this job, SPCs usually suggest PC members. In 2025, the role of an SPC got renamed into that of an Area Chair (AC). While most tasks stayed the same, they did not suggest PCs anymore, and another level was introduced: that of topic chairs (TC), who oversee ACs and have some additional tasks (not outlined here since I wasn't a TC).
  • At IJCAI, the SPC is a much lower role than at ICAPS (the AC at IJCAI corresponds more closely to a TC at ICAPS'25). The IJCAI SPC is essentially a PC with an additional round of reviews for an early rejection phase. They do not make paper recommendations.

List of conferences, where I was SPC/AC:

  • ICAPS: 2019 (SPC), 2021-2023 (SPC)*, 2025 (AC) (*honored as outstanding SPC member at ICAPS 2022)
  • IJCAI: 2021 (SPC)

Program Committee (PC) Member at Conferences:

  • AAAI: 2015, 2017–2019*, 2021*–2025
    (*honored as outstanding PC member for AAAI 2019 and 2021)
  • CogSci: 2022
  • ECAI: 2020, 2024, 2025
  • IJCAI: 2013, 2019–2020*, 2023-2024
    (*I've joined the IJCAI PC (or SPC) board for three years, 2021-2023)
  • IJCAI-ECAI: 2018, 2022
  • KR: 2024, 2025
  • PRICAI: 2023
  • SoCS: 2025

Reviewer for Conferences:

The distinction between a PC member and a reviewer is a bit subtle. Mostly, reviewers are subreviewers of a PC member, where the PC member is officially responsible -- and for a bunch of papers, but he/she might invite subreviewers for specific papers in his/her bunch (e.g., if the expertise fits nicely).

  • AAAI: 2012, 2014, 2020
  • ECAI: 2016
  • ICAPS: 2012, 2015-2018, 2020, 2024
  • KI: 2012-2013
  • RSS: 2024

Program Committee (PC) Member at Workshops:

  • CGW: 2017
  • HAXP: 2023-2024
  • HPLAN: 2018-2024 (I was also its chair)
  • RDDPS: 2024
  • TSDO: 2024
  • WIPC: 2021 (I was also an organizer)
  • XAI: 2024
  • XAIP: 2020, 2022

Reviewer for Student Conferences:

Reviewing -- per Year

All that follows can be inferred from the above, so it's inherently redundant. But whereas the above shows well where I reviewed, the review load per year is not that well visible. I thus list it again ordered by year. Note that reviewing for journals has been excluded here as years were not given above either (for the sake of anonymity).

Within each year, conferences come first, then books, then workshops. Within each group, order is alphabetical.

  • 2012
    • AAAI (reviewer)
    • ICAPS (reviewer)
    • KI (reviewer)
  • 2013
    • IJCAI (PC)
    • KI (reviewer)
  • 2014
    • AAAI (reviewer)
  • 2015
    • AAAI (PC)
    • ICAPS (reviewer)
  • 2016
    • ECAI (reviewer)
    • ICAPS (reviewer)
  • 2017
    • AAAI (PC)
    • ICAPS (reviewer)
    • Companion Technology book chapter (reviewer)
    • CGW workshop (reviewer)
  • 2018
    • AAAI (PC)
    • ICAPS (reviewer)
    • IJCAI-ECAI (PC)
    • HPLAN workshop (PC)
  • 2019
    • AAAI (PC), honored as outstanding PC member
    • ICAPS (SPC)
    • IJCAI (PC)
    • HPLAN workshop (PC)
  • 2020
    • AAAI (reviewer)
    • ECAI (PC)
    • ICAPS (reviewer)
    • IJCAI (PC)
    • Handbuch der Künstlichen Intelligenz book chapter (reviewer)
    • SRC student conference (reviewer)
    • HPLAN workshop (PC)
    • XAIP workshop (PC)
  • 2021
    • AAAI (PC), honored as outstanding PC member
    • ICAPS (SPC)
    • IJCAI (SPC)
    • ACUR student conference (reviewer)
    • HPLAN workshop (PC)
    • WIPC workshop (PC)
  • 2022
    • AAAI (PC)
    • ICAPS (SPC), honored as outstanding SPC member
    • CogSci (PC)
    • IJCAI-ECAI (PC)
    • HPLAN workshop (PC)
    • XAIP workshop (PC)
  • 2023
    • AAAI (PC)
    • ICAPS (SPC)
    • IJCAI (PC)
    • PRICAI (PC)
    • HAXP workshop (PC)
    • HPLAN workshop (PC)
  • 2024
    • AAAI (PC)
    • ECAI (PC)
    • ICAPS (reviewer)
    • IJCAI (PC)
    • IJCAI survey track (PC)
    • KR (PC)
    • RSS (reviewer)
    • HAXP workshop (PC)
    • HPLAN workshop (PC)
    • RDDPS workshop (PC)
    • TSDO workshop (PC)
    • XAI workshop (PC)
  • 2025
    • AAAI (PC)
    • ECAI (PC)
    • ICAPS (AC)
    • IJCAI survey track (PC)
    • SoCS (PC)
    • KR, planning and scheduling track (PC)

Glossary of Conference and Workshop Acronyms

Conferences:

  • AAAI: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference (ranked A*)
  • ACUR: The Australasian Conference for Undergraduate Research (not ranked; semi-local event)
  • ECAI: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ranked A)
  • ICAPS: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ranked A*)
  • IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ranked A*)
  • KI: Konferenz für Künstliche Intelligenz (German Conference on Artificial Intelligence) (ranked C)
  • KR: International Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (ranked A*)
  • PRICAI: Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ranked B)
  • SoCS: Symposium on Combinatorial Search (ranked B, though the planning community regards it A/top-tier)
  • SRC: ANU Student Research Conference (not ranked; semi-local event)
  • RSS: Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (ranked A*)

Workshops:

  • CGW: Computer Games Workshop
  • HAXP: Human-Aware and Explainable Planning (HAXP); note that HAXP is a new name (since 2023) for the XAIP workshop
  • HPLAN: ICAPS Workshop on Hierarchical Planning
  • TSDO: Workshop on Trustworthy Sequential Decision-making and Optimization
  • WIPC: Workshop of the International Planning Competition (IPC)
  • XAIP: Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence Planning; note that XAIP got renamed into HAXP in 2023
  • XAI: Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence
  • RDDPS: Workshop on Reliable Data-Driven Planning and Scheduling