27TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The ECAI 2024 multimedia repository is now available. You can access it at https://s.citius.gal/ecai24photos.

ECAI-2024 has just concluded. Our heartfelt thanks to all the people, institutions, and sponsors whose efforts helped to make it happen. We hope to see many of you in Bologna next year for ECAI-2025!

After an inspiring weekend jam-packed with workshops, tutorials, and the doctoral consortium, we are now looking forward to an exciting conference week with well over 1,500 registered participants. Welcome to Santiago de Compostela!

We are delighted to announce the publication of the open-access proceedings of ECAI-2024 and PAIS-2024. Enjoy reading!

All participants, including speakers, exhibitors and staff are expected to commit to ECAI 2024 Code of conduct which aims to provide a welcoming, respectful, and harassment-free environment for everyone attending the Conference.

As previously announced, the registration limit for ECAI 2024 is nearly reached. Therefore, no in-person registrations will be allowed. Delegates wishing to attend ECAI 2024 must register in advance using the registration application. Once capacity is reached, registrations will close.

Remember that we can print your poster for you! The deadline is Friday, 11 October 2024 (end of day, AoE) and the price is 30 euros. Posters must be prepared in portrait orientation and will be printed on A0 paper.

Registrations limit about to be reached!

Due to the unprecedented success of ECAI 2024, the number of registrations is rapidly approaching the maximum limit that will allow us to ensure the comfort and safety of delegates. With this priority in mind, once this limit is reached, the registration application will be closed to new registrations. We therefore highly recommend that you complete your registration as soon as possible.

Thank you for your understanding and most of all for making ECAI 2024 the biggest ECAI ever.

We are pleased to announce yet another special session. Enrique Alba, professor at the University of Málaga and currently seconded to the European Research Council (ERC) in Brussels, will give an overview of opportunities for AI researchers offered by the ERC. The ERC is an important source of funding for excellent research in Europe, in AI and all other fields of science and scholarship.

We are delighted to announce that Andrea Campagner, who is the winner of the EurAI Dissertation Award 2023, will be giving an invited talk at ECAI. Andrea will be speaking about some of the challenges of dealing with uncertainty in the context of machine learning.

The deadline for the Lunch with an EurAI Fellow has been extended. PhD students willing to have lunch with a EurAI Fellow while talking about their scientific careers should send their Expressions of Interest by 22 September, following the instructions at the Lunch with a EurAI Fellow Call

Besides contributed papers and invited talks, we are looking forward to a rich programme of discussions on topics that should be of broad interest to members of the AI research community. This will include panels and special sessions on the history and future of AI, on AI regulation and AI ethics, on the economic impact of AI, and on the organisation of large AI conferences.

Following ECAI tradition, the Lunch with a EurAI Fellow provides an opportunity for a small number of PhD students attending ECAI to have lunch with a EurAI Fellow while talking about their scientific careers.

Interested students should send their Expressions of Interest by 8 22 September, following the instructions at the Lunch with a EurAI Fellow Call

ECAI is proud to host the 50th anniversary edition of the World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC). You can look forward to multiple competitions as well as a symposium featuring many of the computer chess pioneers. This will be the last ever edition of the WCCC and an opportunity to reflect on the impact computer chess tournaments have had on AI.

We are proud to announce that Nirmalie Wiratunga from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen will be delivering an invited talk at PAIS, the ECAI sister conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems. She will be speaking about the challenges of determining appropriate explanation strategies in AI applications based on user-specific experiences.

You have another 4 weeks left to register for ECAI at the early-bird rate (deadline: Monday, 19 August 2024). Remember that you might need a bit of extra time to renew your membership with your local AI Society, so as to get the best possible rate. And if you are a (PhD) student, you might need a bit of extra time to obtain a valid proof of your student status. So start early.

You can now also find the list of accepted papers for the journal track on this site. These are papers that were recently published in one of the major discipline-wide AI journals, AIJ and JAIR, but that were never before presented at a conference with archival proceedings.

Last week we sent out notifications for the main track, the demo track, and PAIS. You can now find the list of accepted papers on this site. There’s around 600 of them! They will  all become publicly available through the open-access proceedings by the start of the conference.

ECAI welcomes proposals for Birds of a Feather Sessions. These sessions are intended for networking, for starting new collaborations, and for the exchange of ideas in an informal setting. Interested? The deadline for proposals is Thursday, 11 July 2024.

The deadline for application to the Doctoral Consortium is approaching: 5 July 2024. This is a great opportunity, not only to get career advice and feedback on your research, but also meet lots of other PhD students working in your field.

We are delighted to announce our fourth keynote speaker, César Hidalgo (Toulouse and Budapest), who has pioneered the use of machine learning methods to answer questions of economic development. Looking forward to it!

Here’s yet another piece of great news regarding submissions: The Demo Track received no fewer than 57 submissions. Expect to see some intriguing demonstrations at ECAI this October!

Earlier this month, ECAI’s sister conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS) received a total of 71 submissions. That’s more than a four-fold increase over last year. It’s great to see so much interest in ECAI by colleagues working on fielded applications of AI!

We are pleased to announce that we have received a total of 2,344 submissions to the main track of the conference, representing roughly a 39% increase over last year. We are now busy assigning everyone’s submissions to reviewers. Authors will get asked to respond to the initial reviews during the rebuttal period in June.

As the deadline for paper submissions to the main track of the conference is approaching, we would like to draw your attention to the detailed FAQ for authors provided by the PC chairs.

Besides the plenary keynote talks announced earlier, ECAI will feature eight invited talks in the Frontiers in AI series, highlighting important new results, techniques, and trends across different subfields of AI.

Submissions to the main track, PAIS, and the demo track are now open. We are looking forward to receiving your papers!

The list of tutorials to be offered as part of the pre-conference programme is now available. Lots of great opportunities to learn about new topics!

Take a look at the new-and-improved journal track, a joint initiative of the major discipline-wide AI journals and conferences: If you recently had a paper accepted by either AIJ or JAIR, and if no part of that paper has previously been presented at a conference, you can now choose to do so at AAAI, ECAI, or IJCAI.

The list of workshops to be held as part of the pre-conference programme is now available. Have a look!

Submissions for the EurAI Dissertation Award are now open. Eligible are all doctoral theses in AI that were defended between December 2022 and December 2023 at a European university. The winner will be invited to give a talk at ECAI.

The ECAI programme is starting to take shape. We are looking forward to keynotes by Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt) on natural language processing, Marijn Heule (Carnegie Mellon University) on computer-aided mathematics, and Iolanda Leite (KTH Stockholm) on human-robot interaction. Don’t miss it!

We are delighted to announce that also the response to our call for tutorial proposals has been excellent. We received a total of 33 proposals and will publish the list of selected tutorials in late March.

Would you like to support the conference by joining ECAI-2024 as a PC member? We are now looking for volunteers who have completed their PhD, who have published at good AI conferences in the past, and who have prior experience with reviewing. You can sign up at https://bit.ly/join-ecai-pc (alternative link). Thanks!

The list of area chairs for the main track of the conference is now available. We are proud to see so many prominent AI researchers on this list and are grateful for everyone’s support!

We are exited to announce that we received a total of 48 workshop proposals from the AI community. We are now going to make a selection and plan to announce the list of ECAI workshops by late February. We expect that most workshops will have their submission deadlines in May.