We review the 2016 International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (ICKEPS), the fifth in a series of competitions started in 2005. ICKEPS series focuses on promoting the importance of knowledge engineering methods and tools for automated Planning and Scheduling systems.

The International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling has been running since 2005 as a biennial event promoting the development and importance of the use of knowledge engineering methods and techniques within P&S. Past events include 4 competitions (ICKEPS) interleaved with KEPS workshops, all held during ICAPS conferences. We would like to encourage AI planning researchers to present tools that support the KE phases, and to exploit them (as well as other existing tools) to encode a number of scenarios and problems given by the organisers. Competitors (competing teams) can develop their tools in advance. The ICKEPS competition will be held on-site.