AixIA 2026, CFP Doctoral Consortium
Valentina Franzoni
as publicity chair of the AIxIA 2026 Conference, I am glad to inform you that the DC CFP deadline ahas been extended to 12/07/26.
Best regards,
Valentina Franzoni
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The AIxIA Doctoral Consortium (DC) is offered as part of the Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIIA) that will take place in Perugia, Italy, on October 6-9, 2026. The DC provides an opportunity for PhD students to explore and develop their research interests in the Artificial Intelligence field, in the broader sense, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished researchers from both academia and industry. Attending students will have the opportunity to present their work in a dedicated session during the conference.
Doctoral Consortium's main objectives:- Providing a supportive setting for feedback on students’ current research and guidance on future research directions.
- Offering each student comments and fresh perspectives on their work from faculty and students outside their institution.
- Promoting the development of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research.
- Contributing to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and conference events.
- Students regularly enrolled in some PhD programs
- Students enrolled in the National PhD Programs in Artificial Intelligence (PhD-AI) and Robotics and Intelligent Machines (phDRIM)
- Students/master’s holders not yet enrolled in a PhD program, but strongly motivated to enroll in the near future
We allow three different types of submissions:
- Original contribution: research papers with clear contextualization within the research area and PhD program.
- Research proposal: preliminary work including state-of-the-art and planned research activities.
- Already published paper: a paper already published in a peer-reviewed venue.
Submissions presenting an original contribution or a research proposal will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback and support through constructive discussion. If attending the conference, mentors will also meet students in person.
Topics of interestInclude (but are not limited to):
- AI and digital entertainment
- AI applications
- AI architectures
- AI in Learning Environments
- Big Data
- Cognitive modeling
- Cognitive Robotics
- Constraint Satisfaction
- Combinatorial Algorithms
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Information Agents
- Information Retrieval and Extraction
- Knowledge Acquisition
- Knowledge Engineering
- Knowledge Representation
- Learning in adaptive systems
- Machine Consciousness
- Machine Learning
- Mathematical Foundations
- Metacognition in Artificial Agents
- Multiagent Systems
- Natural Language Processing
- Ontologies
- Philosophical Foundations
- Planning and Scheduling
- Reasoning
- Robotics
- Search
- Semantic Web
- Smart Cities
- Soft and Evolutionary Computing
- Temporal Reasoning
- Uncertainty
- Vision
- Web and Data Mining
All submissions must be written in English and formatted according to the CEUR Workshop Proceedings format:
CEUR guidelines – Overleaf template.
The only accepted format is PDF. Submission will be handled via
EasyChair (select DC track).
Accepted original contributions will be published in CEUR proceedings. Papers must be 5–6 pages (including references).
Accepted students must present their work (format TBD) and register for the main conference.
Best Student Paper AwardThe best Doctoral Consortium paper will receive an award.
Travel GrantStudents are encouraged to apply for travel grants covering (part of) the conference fee. Details will be provided soon here.
Important Dates- Submission Deadline: 12 July, 2026 (extended)
- Acceptance Notification: 25 July, 2026
- Doctoral Consortium Days: TBD
Stefano Ferilli
Università di Bari, Italy
Email: stefano...@uniba.it
Valentina Poggioni
Università di Perugia, Italy
Email: valentina...@unipg.it