Call for Papers
ICAART
is sponsored by
INSTICC
– Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
SCOPE
The purpose of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in the areas of Agents and Artificial Intelligence, covering both applications and current (advanced) research work. The scientific goal is to stimulate them in developing new ideas for further progress. On one side it focuses on Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, and also Distributed Problem Solving. On the other side it focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception. Applications are in both areas. They are using Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), Legal Technologies and Quantum Computing.
Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICAART with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the conference website.
CONFERENCE AREAS
Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:
1. AGENTS
2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AREA 1: AGENTS
- Agent Communication and Languages
- Agent Models and Architectures
- Agent Models in Economics and Finance
- Agent Oriented Software Engineering
- Artificial Life
- Legal Technologies
- Bias
- Cognitive Robotics
- Conversational Agents
- Distributed Problem Solving
- Emotional Intelligence
- Fairness and Reliability
- Group Decision Making (with cooperation, coordination, negotiation, interaction protocols)
- Intelligent Auctions and Markets
- Mobile Agents
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Programming Environments and Agent Platforms
- Robot and Multi-Robot Systems
- Self Organizing Systems
- Simulation
- Swarm Intelligence and Collective Intelligence
- Task Planning and Execution
- Web Intelligence and Semantic Web
AREA 2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- AI and Creativity
- Ambient Intelligence
- Bayesian Networks
- Big Data
- Case-Based Reasoning
- Cognitive Systems
- Constraint Satisfaction
- Data Mining
- Data Science
- Deep Learning
- e-Discovery
- Evolutionary Computing
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence
- Fuzzy Systems
- Hybrid Intelligent Systems
- Industrial and Societal Applications of AI
- Intelligence and Cybersecurity
- Intelligent User Interfaces
- Interpretable Artificial Intelligence
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Knowledge-Based Systems
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Legal Technologies
- Machine Learning
- Model-Based Reasoning
- Natural Language Processing
- Neural Networks
- Ontologies
- Planning and Scheduling
- Privacy, Safety, Security, and Ethical Issues
- Quantum Artificial Intelligence
- Social Network Analysis
- Soft Computing
- State Space Search
- Transparency
- Uncertainty in AI
- Validity
- Valorisation
- Vision and Perception
- Visualization
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
ICAART 2026 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.
Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.
When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors should also avoid using an excessive number of self-citations.
All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.
PUBLICATIONS
All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by
SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
IMPORTANT DATES
Conference Date: 5 - 7 March, 2026
Paper Submission:
October 8, 2025
Authors Notification:
December 5, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration:
December 22, 2025
Paper Submission:
November 27, 2025
Authors Notification:
January 6, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 19, 2026
Workshops
Workshop Proposal:
October 29, 2025
Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal:
October 29, 2025
Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal:
January 23, 2026
Demos
Demo Proposal:
January 23, 2026
Panels
Panel Proposal:
January 23, 2026
CONFERENCE CHAIR
H. Jaap van den Herik, Faculty of Computer Science and Faculty of Law, Leiden University, Netherlands
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Ana Paula Rocha, LIACC / FEUP, University of Porto, Portugal
Mattias Wahde, Department of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Available soon.