Doctoral Consortium Call for Papers

The 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
Bolzano, Italy, November 25-28, 2024

The AIxIA Doctoral Consortium (DC) is offered as part of the Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA) that will take place in Bozen, Italy on November 25-28, 2024. 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.

AIxIA Doctoral Consortium’s main objectives are the following:
Provide a supportive setting for feedback on students’ current research and guidance on future research directions. Offer each student comments and fresh perspectives on their work from faculty and students outside their institution, taking advantage of mentorship opportunities. Promote the development of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research. Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and conference events.

We accept contributions from:

  • Students enrolled in the National PhD Programs in Artificial Intelligence (PhD-AI) and Robotics and Intelligent Machines (phDRIM)
  • Students regularly enrolled in any PhD program with a research project with main focus on AI
  • Students/master’s holders not yet enrolled in a PhD program, but strongly motivated to enrol in the next future

We invite the submission of research papers, where special attention should be dedicated to contextualizing the contribution within the research area it belongs to and how the contribution fits within the PhD program. We also encourage submissions of preliminary works that survey the state-of-the-art of a specific problem and propose a plan for ongoing investigation activities.

Important Dates

Submission DeadlineSeptember 8, 2024
Acceptance NotificationSeptember 29, 2024
Doctoral Consortium DaysTBD

Topics of interest

Applicants are expected to be conducting research in the field of Artificial Intelligence; topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • AI and digital entertainment 
  • AI applications 
  • AI architectures 
  • AI in Learning Environments 
  • Big Data 
  • Cognitive modeling 
  • Cognitive Robotics 
  • Computational Intelligence 
  • Constraint Satisfaction 
  • Deep Learning 
  • Experimentation of 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, Distributed AI 
  • Natural Language Processing 
  • Ontologies 
  • Philosophical Foundations 
  • Planning and Scheduling 
  • Reinforcement Learning 
  • Reasoning 
  • Robotics 
  • Search 
  • Semantic Web 
  • Smart Cities 
  • Soft and Evolutionary Computing 
  • Temporal Reasoning 
  • Uncertainty 
  • Vision 
  • Web and Data Mining

Submission Instructions

All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the CEUR Workshop Proceedings format, please refer to https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html and to https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw. The only accepted format for submitted papers is PDF. Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of EasyChair. The submission page is available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aixia2024 selecting the DC track.

Accepted Papers based on original work will be included in the DC proceedings published on-line by CEUR after the conference. Already published papers will appear as a link to the previous publication in the DC proceedings published by CEUR.

Every contribution should be in the form of up to a 6-page extended abstract including references, in CEUR Workshop Proceedings format. Students with accepted extended abstracts are invited to give an oral presentation of their work during the Doctoral Consortium and to prepare a visual abstract to be included on the conference website. The authors of the accepted works are requested to attend the Doctoral Consortium and register for the main conference.

Best Student Paper Award

The DC Paper awards will be conferred on the author of the Doctoral Consortium best paper at the conference.

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs