| 2017 | AAAI | Incorporating Domain-Independent Planning Heuristics in Hierarchical Planning. | Vikas Shivashankar, Ron Alford, David W. Aha |
| 2016 | ECAI | Cost-Optimal Algorithms for Planning with Procedural Control Knowledge. | Vikas Shivashankar, Ron Alford, Mark Roberts, David W. Aha |
| 2016 | IJCAI | Hierarchical Planning: Relating Task and Goal Decomposition with Task Sharing. | Ron Alford, Vikas Shivashankar, Mark Roberts, Jeremy Frank, David W. Aha |
| 2013 | IJCAI | The GoDeL Planning System: A More Perfect Union of Domain-Independent and Hierarchical Planning. | Vikas Shivashankar, Ronald Alford, Ugur Kuter, Dana S. Nau |
| 2012 | AAMAS | A hierarchical goal-based formalism and algorithm for single-agent planning. | Vikas Shivashankar, Ugur Kuter, Dana S. Nau, Ronald Alford |
| 2012 | SoCS | HTN Problem Spaces: Structure, Algorithms, Termination. | Ronald Alford, Vikas Shivashankar, Ugur Kuter, Dana S. Nau |
| 2011 | FlAIRS | Real-Time Planning for Covering an Initially-Unknown Spatial Environment. | Vikas Shivashankar, Rajiv Jain, Ugur Kuter, Dana S. Nau |
| 2010 | ECAI | A Fault-model-based Debugging Aid for Data Warehouse Applications. | Peter Struss, Vikas Shivashankar, Mohamed Zahoor |