The 32nd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS2024) will be hosted by the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (UCD) and will take place from 9th to 10th December 2024.

With regular conferences dating back to 1988, the AICS Conference is Ireland's primary forum for researchers with interests in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science.

Submissions
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The Program Committee of AICS2024 invites submissions in the broad areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. Areas of interest include, but are not restricted to:

*Machine Learning (supervised/semi-supervised/unsupervised learning, meta-learning, ensemble learning etc.)
*Cognitive Science (Decision making, perception, concept combination, creative cognition etc.)
*Applications (Computer Vision, speech/audio processing, natural language processing, ML for medicine, recommender systems etc. )
*Deep Learning (Network architectures, deep generative models, graph neural networks, foundation models etc.)
*AI Ethics (Fairness, interpretability, transparency, explainability, environmental impact of AI etc.)
*Datasets (Novel datasets, benchmarks, dataset audits, dataset design etc. )
*Machine Learning Testing (Safety, evaluation metrics, robustness etc. )
*Learning Theory (Optimisation, Bayesian Methods, Game Theory, Complexity Analysis etc. )
*Semantic Web (Knowledge Graphs, Social Network Analysis etc.)


We invite three types of submissions:
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*Full Paper Track: Full paper submissions should consist of original contributions (describing either fundamental research, interesting applications, in-use experiences, or reviews of the field) not published in other forums. Papers should be 6 to 12 pages in length in the Springer LNCS style. Accepted submissions will appear in online proceedings and authors will be invited for oral or poster presentations.

*Student Track: This track is designed to facilitate students who have recently completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s program. Student track submissions should consist of original contributions (describing either basic research or interesting applications) and the first author must be a student. Papers should be 6 to 12 pages in length in the Springer LNCS style. Accepted submissions will appear in the online proceedings and authors will be invited for a poster presentation.

*NECTAR Track: NECTAR track submissions should describe significant results previously published or disseminated no earlier than 2022 at a prestigious international conference or journal. Accepted submissions will be included in online proceedings as a single-page abstract, and authors will be invited to present their work orally at AICS.
All accepted submissions in Full Paper Track and Student Paper Track will appear in online proceedings (TBA).

Publication and Instructions for Authors
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All accepted submissions will be presented at the conference, either orally or as posters, and included in the online conference proceedings. At least one author of each submission will be required to register for, and attend, the conference. All submissions must be made via the EasyChair system online at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aics20240

Full papers and student papers must be submitted in Springer LNCS format (single column proceedings), which is also the format required for the final camera-ready copy. A sample LaTeX document in this format is available here.

NECTAR track submissions should consist of a single page with an abstract and reference to the original publication. A sample NECTAR track submission is available here.

Important Dates
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Paper Submission Deadline for all Tracks - 1st October 2024, 23:59 Irish time
Acceptance Notification for all Papers - 29th October 2024
Camera Ready Submissions (all tracks) - 12th November 2024

Organisation
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Arjun Pakrashi (University College Dublin) arjun.pakrashi@ucd.ie
Ellen Rushe (Dublin City University) ellen.rushe@dcu.ie
Brian Mac Namee (University College Dublin) brian.macnamee@ucd.ie
Rob Brennan (University College Dublin) rob.brennan@ucd.ie

Contacts
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Website: https://aics2024.ucd.ie
Twitter: @AICSconference