Call for Papers

The 36^th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2023) will take place in-person at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) from June 5 to 9, 2023. The event will be collocated with the Computer and Robot Vision conference and CSCan conferences. Each year Canadian AI brings together leading researchers and practitioners in AI from academia, industry, government, and NGOs to build a stronger AI community in Canada. Participants showcase Canada's ingenuity, innovation and leadership in intelligent systems.

We invite papers that present original work, both theoretical and applied, in all areas of Artificial Intelligence including but not limited to the following key topics.

• Agent Systems
• AI Applications
• Automated Reasoning
• Bioinformatics and BioNLP
• Case‐based Reasoning
• Cognitive Models
• Constraint Satisfaction
• Data Mining
• Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
• Evolutionary Computation
• Games
• Information Retrieval and Search
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems

• Information and Knowledge Management
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
• Machine Learning
• Multimedia Processing
• Natural Language Processing
• Neural Nets and Deep Learning
• Planning
• Privacy and Security
• Robotics
• Uncertainty
• User Modeling
• Web Mining and Applications

We expressly encourage work that cuts across technical areas or applies AI techniques in the context of important domains such as e-commerce, games, healthcare, sustainability,  transportation, Internet of Things, and agriculture.

Moreover, we plan to have a collocated event on Responsible AI, with a joint invited keynote and other activities related to this topic. We therefore encourage papers highlighting research in this specific area.

We also welcome the submission of position papers, which present evidence-based arguments for a particular point of view without necessarily presenting a new system. There will be an option during the submission process to indicate that a paper is a position paper.

Important dates

Submission deadline: February 19, 2023 (11:59 p.m. UTC-12)
Author notification: March 26, 2023
Final papers due: April 9, 2023

Awards

A Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award will be given at the conference respectively to the authors of each best paper, as judged by the Best Paper Award Selection Committee. For the Best Student Paper Award, the first author must be a registered student at the time of submitting the paper.

Submission details

We invite submissions of both long and short papers. Long papers must be no longer than 12 pages, and short papers must be no longer than 6 pages, including references, formatted using the conference template. The authors should consult the authors’ guidelines and use this proceedings template for LaTeX to prepare their papers. Alternatively, we provide this Microsoft Word template for authors unfamiliar with LaTeX.

Papers submitted to the conference must not have already been published, or accepted for publication, or be under review by a journal or another conference (preprint is acceptable). Submissions will go through a double-blind review process by Program Committee members to assess originality, significance, technical merit, and clarity of presentation. As such, submissions must be anonymized, and papers that fail to do so will be desk rejected without a review.

Link for submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=canai2023

Program co-chairs

Farhana Zulkernine
School of Computing,
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
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Amilcar Soares
Department of Computer Science,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Publication and presentation

The conference proceedings will be published in PubPub open access online format and submitted to be indexed/abstracted in leading indexing services such as DBLP, ACM, Google Scholar.

Authors of accepted long papers will be allocated time for an oral presentation at the conference, and authors of accepted short papers will be allocated a poster presentation. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the work. The authors must agree to this requirement prior to submitting their paper for review.

In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper.