The EPIA 2025 international conference
Call for Thematic Tracks
The worldwide AI research community is invited to submit thematic track proposals for EPIA 2025. Thematic tracks are intended to provide an environment that fosters an active exchange of ideas between researchers within specific sub-areas of AI, including theoretical/foundational, integrative, application-oriented, and newly emerging areas.
Each track is coordinated by an Organizing Committee composed of researchers from at least two different countries. Track organizers should also create a highly international Program Committee for the track, with recognized researchers within the corresponding scientific areas.
The selection of proposed thematic tracks will be made by the Program Chairs and Steering Committee of EPIA 2025. We aim to build a strong, well-balanced conference program. If there are significant thematic gaps in the program after the track proposal submission closes, the chairs may actively solicit additional proposals. Likewise, significant overlap between tracks will be addressed by suggesting merging tracks.
Papers accepted in thematic tracks will be published by Springer, in a volume of the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.
Submitted papers should be prepared according to the corresponding format, with a maximum of 12 pages including references.
Presentation slots will be accommodated in the conference program for every accepted paper, in thematic sessions that may run in parallel.
Important Dates
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Thematic Track proposal deadline: |
January 31, 2025 (AoE) |
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Notification of track acceptance: |
February 17, 2025 |
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Conference: |
October 1-3, 2025 |
Proposal submission via EasyChair
Track proposals should not exceed 3 pages and must be submitted as a PDF file.
The proposal should contain the following information:
- Thematic track title;
- Name, affiliation, postal address, phone, and email address of all members of the track Organizing Committee, which must include researchers from institutions in at least two different countries;
- Identification of the Organizing Committee contact person;
- A brief description of the specific scientific/technical scope of the track;
- A list of topics of interest;
- A tentative list of members of the proposed track Program Committee, which should be highly international (e.g. no more than 50% from a single country);
- A preliminar version of the track Call for Papers;
- The planned format (e.g., invited talks, paper presentations, panel discussions, etc.) and duration of the track (2h or 4h);
- Plans of preparing a special issue for papers accepted in the thematic track, indicating which journal will host it;
- Planned forms of publicizing the track;
- A list of technical/room requirements for the track;
- Sponsors or other funding initiatives for the thematic track;
- For thematic tracks that are being proposed for the first time, indicate an estimate of how many papers are expected to be submitted. If you have already organized this thematic track in previous editions of EPIA, indicate how many submissions and accepted papers it received.