[CFP] Special Session: Fairness, Interpretability, and Security in AI (FIS-AI 2026) @ICAART2026, March 5–7, 2026, Marbella, Spain

[Gauri Vaidya]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Special Session on Fairness, Interpretability, and Security in AI (FIS-AI 2026), organized within the 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2026), taking place March 5–7, 2026, in Marbella, Spain.

The event will be of hybrid nature, in the sense that, online presentations of accepted papers will be possible for those authors that are unable to travel to the venue.

Special Session Website: https://icaart.scitevents.org/SpecialSessions.aspx#FIS-AI

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: December 17, 2025 (AOE)
• Notification of Acceptance: January 14, 2026 (AOE)
• Camera-ready Submission & Registration: January 22, 2026 (AOE)

Overview

Artificial intelligence is transforming decision-making and operational efficiency across critical domains such as finance and healthcare. Yet, as AI systems increasingly shape outcomes in high-stakes environments, concerns about fairness, interpretability, and security are becoming ever more urgent.

This special session aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore approaches that make AI systems more equitable, transparent, and resilient. We welcome theoretical advances, applied research, and interdisciplinary studies that contribute to trustworthy and responsible AI.

Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):

• Secure learning under noisy, incomplete, or adversarial data conditions
• Privacy-preserving techniques (differential privacy, federated learning)
• Fairness-aware algorithms and bias mitigation strategies
• AI for equity and social good in high-stakes environments
• Bias audits and explainability in deployed AI systems
• AI for security: fraud detection, credit scoring, and risk assessment

Submission Details

• Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.

• Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates

• Please also check the Guidelines.

• Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system.

• Submissions will undergo a double-blind peer-review process.

• All accepted and presented papers will be published in the ICAART 2026 Proceedings (with ISBN, DOI, and indexing in SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, EI, Web of Science, and Semantic Scholar) through SCITEPRESS.

• All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.

Session Chairs

• Dr. Meghana Kshirsagar, Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence, University of Limerick, Ireland
• Dr Irene Anthi, Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity / Co-founder @devi8, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
• Dr. Gauri Vaidya, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Limerick, Ireland 

For inquiries, please contact gauri....@ul.ie with the subject in the email as  ICAART Special Sessions – FIS-AI 2026. 

In Cooperation with:

ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence

Ibero-American Society of Artificial Intelligence

European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology 

With the presence of internationally distinguished keynote(s):

Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Best regards,

FIS-AI 2026 Organizing Committee

Special Session on Fairness, Interpretability, and Security in AI (FIS-AI 2026)

Within the 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2026)

https://icaart.scitevents.org/SpecialSessions.aspx#FIS-AI