Call for Papers and Submission

AI 2026, the 39^th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence invites papers that present original work in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, either theoretical or applied. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Agent Systems
• AI Applications
• Automated Reasoning
• Case‐based Reasoning
• Cognitive Models
• Constraint Satisfaction
• Data Mining
• Deep Learning and Neural Models
• E‐Commerce
• Ethics in AI, AI for social good
• Evolutionary Computation
• Explainable AI
• Fair, Secure, Private, and Trusted AI
• Games
• Information Retrieval and Search

• Knowledge Management
• Knowledge Representation
• Large Language Models
• Machine Learning
• Multimedia Processing
• Natural Language Processing
• Planning
• Robotics
• Swarm Intelligence
• Uncertainty
• User Modeling
• Web Mining and Applications

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

This year, the conference will feature two submission rounds.

First round

Second round

Camera Ready Copy due: Monday, April 20^th, 2026 (11:59 p.m. AoE time zone)

Conference dates: May 25-29, 2026

Accepted papers from both sessions will be presented at the conference. Submissions received in the first round may receive revision requests and can be resubmitted for consideration in the second round.

Program Co-chairs