CFP: AAAI-26 Bridge on AI + OR/MS — Trustworthy Decision Making (Singapore, Jan 20–21, 2026)

[Arik Senderovich]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite submissions to the AAAI-26 Bridge Program on
Combining AI and OR/MS for Better Trustworthy Decision Making
Singapore, January 20–21, 2026
Held as part of the AAAI-26 Conference

About the Bridge

This Bridge brings together two historically distinct but deeply complementary communities—Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research / Management Science (OR/MS)—to advance trustworthy decision making in complex, real-world environments.

While AI contributes powerful capabilities for learning, forecasting, and reasoning, OR/MS provides rigorous optimization, simulation, and systems thinking. Together, these fields can deliver reliable, transparent, and impactful decision-making pipelines.

Our goal is to foster cross-disciplinary education, collaboration, and research between these communities.

Topics of Interest

We invite contributions on (but not limited to):

• Integration of AI and OR/MS methods for decision intelligence

• Trust, robustness, and explainability in hybrid decision systems

• Generative AI for democratizing optimization and modeling

• Benchmarking, datasets, and challenge problems for AI–OR/MS collaboration

• Applications in healthcare, logistics, supply chains, and resource allocation

Program Format

The Bridge will feature:

• Tutorials introducing OR/MS for AI practitioners and AI methods for OR/MS practitioners

• Keynote talks by leading experts

• Case studies showcasing successful cross-disciplinary applications

• Poster and short-talk sessions for contributed work

• Blue-sky and breakout sessions on future research directions

Participation

Researchers, practitioners, and students from AI, OR/MS, and related fields are warmly encouraged to participate.
We particularly welcome early-career researchers, students, and those with cross-disciplinary interests.

Submission Details

Submissions may include:

• A one-page abstract,

• A short paper, or

• A full journal article (including previously published work).

All submissions should use the AAAI-26 template (except for previously published work, which can retain its original format).

Important Dates:

• October 30, 2025: Submissions due

• November 14, 2025: Notifications sent

• November 16, 2025: AAAI-26 early registration deadline

• January 20–21, 2026: Bridge Program at AAAI-26

Submission website: https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-26/bridge-program/ai-orms/

Please Share: If you know colleagues or students working at the intersection of AI, optimization, simulation, and decision-making, please share this call with them. Your help in connecting the AI and OR/MS communities is essential to making this Bridge truly impactful. 

Bridge Chairs:

• Florian Pommerening (University of Basel) – florian.p...@unibas.ch

Bridge Committee

• Claudia V. Goldman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – claudia...@mail.huji.ac.il

• Jiaoyang Li (Carnegie Mellon University) – jiaoy...@cmu.edu

• Florian Pommerening (University of Basel) – florian.p...@unibas.ch

• Arik Senderovich (York University, Canada) – sar...@yorku.ca

Bridge Steering Committee

• J. Christopher Beck (University of Toronto)

• Sven Koenig (University of California, Irvine)

• Michela Milano (Università di Bologna)

• Willem-Jan Van Hoeve (Carnegie Mellon University)

• Segev Wasserkrug (IBM Research)

We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you in Singapore for an inspiring exchange of ideas.

Best regards,
AAAI-26 Bridge on AI + OR/MS Organizing Committee

Contacts for more questions: sar...@yorku.ca or florian.p...@unibas.ch