[CFP] The 39th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2026), Vancouver, 25–29 May 2026

[BOUZAR Lydia]

Canadian AI 2026, Vancouver, BC, 25-29 May 2026
Call for Papers and Submission

• Round 2 submission deadline: 13 Feb 2026 AoE
• Round 2 author notification: 07 Apr 2026 AoE

Dear Colleagues,

The 39th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CanAI 2026 https://www.caiac.ca/en/conferences/canadianai-2026/home), 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	Information Retrieval and Search
AI Applications (including applications to bioinformatics, health informatics, software engineering)	Information and Knowledge Management
Automated Reasoning	Knowledge Representation
Case‐based Reasoning	Machine Learning
Cognitive Models	Multimedia Processing
Constraint Satisfaction	Natural Language Processing
Data Mining	Large Language Models
Deep Learning and Neural Models	Planning
E‐Commerce	Robotics
Ethics in AI, AI for social good	Uncertainty
Evolutionary Computation	User Modeling
Explainable AI	Web Mining and Applications
Fair, secure, private, and trusted AI	Information Retrieval and Search
Games	Information and Knowledge Management

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.

Second round

• Submission deadline: Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 (11:59 p.m. AoE time zone)
• Author notification: Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

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

Conference dates: May 25-29, 2026

Accepted papers  will be presented at the conference.

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.

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 if the title is different). 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.

Submission Link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CANADIANAI2026/

CMT acknowledgment: The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

Publication and Presentation

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

Authors of accepted long papers will be allotted time for an oral presentation during the conference. Accepted short papers will also be allotted time for a 2-minute oral presentation, followed by a poster session presentation. It is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper to attend the conference in person to present their work. Authors are expected to agree to this requirement before submitting their paper for review.

Furthermore, the corresponding author of each paper must complete and sign a copyright form on behalf of all authors associated with the paper. It is important that the corresponding author who signs the copyright form is the corresponding author listed on the paper. For the final submission, please use the camera-ready template linked above.

Program Chairs

Lydia Bouzar-Benlabiod
Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University, NS
Lydia.bouza...@acadiau.ca
https://cs.acadiau.ca/Lydia-BOUZAR-BENLABIOD.html

Carson Leung
Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.

Carson...@umanitoba.ca
https://umanitoba.ca/science/directory/computer-science/carson-leung