ISMIS 2026 – CALL FOR PAPERS
28th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems
July 22 – 24, 2026
Lyon, France
https://ismis2026.univ-lyon1.fr/
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Paper submission deadline: February 18, 2026
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ISMIS provides a forum for sharing research results and promoting the transfer of scientific advances to industrial and socio-economic applications. The 2026 edition focuses on two key themes: the evaluation of AI explainability and the principles of responsible AI. With this focus, ISMIS 2026 addresses the challenges of developing fair, ethical, and trustworthy AI systems that are understandable to humans, can operate in complex real-world and social environments, are resilient to cyber-threats, and align with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles.Relevant conference topics include, but are not limited to:

Anomaly Detection
Autonomous Systems (UAVs, Robots, Agents …)
Causality and Machine Learning
Constraint-based Systems
Data Mining
Deep Learning, Neural Networks
Digital Libraries
Explainable AI (XAI)
Generative AI
Human Computation
Intelligent Agent Technology
Intelligent Data Processing and Analytics
Intelligent Information Retrieval
Intelligent User Interfaces
Knowledge Integration and Aggregation
Knowledge Representation
Knowledge Visualization
Machine Learning
Multi-Instance, Multi-Label and Multi-Task Learning
Natural Language Processing
Online and Stream Learning
Recommender Systems
Responsible and Trustworthy AI
Security, Privacy and Ethics in AI
Symbiotic AI
Socially-aware Systems
Soft Computing
Urban Traffic Control and Mobility
User Modeling
Web & Text Mining
Applications (Configuration, Internet of Things, Smart Cities, Healthcare, Music Information Retrieval, Games, Archeology, Earth Observing Systems, Business Process Management, …)

Authors are invited to submit their original unpublished papers that demonstrate current research on one of the session topics of interest. Papers should be prepared in PDF form using the Springer LNCS/LNAI style (max 10 pages) and submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=ismis2026

All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three ISMIS PC members.

Important dates

All deadlines are at 11:59 pm in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

Abstract Submission : February 8, 2026
Paper Submission : February 18, 2026
Notification of Acceptance : April 13, 2026
Camera-ready version : April 28, 2026

ISMIS’2026 conference date : July 22-24, 2026

SPECIAL ISSUE ON JIIS JOURNAL (SPRINGER)
Authors of the best papers (up to 17) will be invited to submit their extended versions to the Special ISMIS 2026 Track of the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS) published by Springer (https://link.springer.com/journal/10844)