Call for papers
Special Session on Agentic AI for Spatio-Temporal Information Extraction and Reasoning - SAIS 2026
Following the rapid emergence of agentic applications and the growing volume of event-centric news and social media posts, we announce the first special track on Spatio-Temporal Information Extraction and Reasoning of the AGENTICS 2026 conference, which this year is part of the 18th Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence and will take place in Angers, France.
We aim to bring together research where agentic AI and Large Language Models are utilized for spatio-temporal grounding of events, entities, and sentiments from textual sources. This also includes the construction of event and entity relations, graphs, and timelines and the spatio-temporal inference of implicitly mentioned locations and time periods.
We welcome contributions on agentic reasoning for spatio-temporal task planning: for example, spatio-temporal reasoning from information extracted from text; reasoning over structured event databases, spatio-temporal knowledge graphs, and clusters; spatio-temporal attribute propagation; reasoning about sequences of events; and all other spatio-temporal reasoning in a text-based context.
We will address also downstream applications of these technologies like domain-specific monitoring agents for conflict, disasters, environmental change, public health, and other crisis and policy-related domains. Finally, we encourage work on early warning and forecasting with LLMs, and on reasoning over event sequences and spatial proximity to support downstream analysis and decision-making.
In particular, we welcome submissions addressing the following main topics: spatio-temporal grounding and extraction using or interacting with LLM or agentic AI, spatio-temporal agentic reasoning, as well as downstream agentic or LLM-based applications. We also address evaluation techniques and benchmarks of the above mentioned approaches. Additionally, submissions on all other topics, related to agentic and LLM based spatio-temporal reasoning and extraction from texts will be considered.
Website: https://agentics.scitevents.org/SpecialSessions.aspx
Important dates: Paper Submission: September 1, 2026 Authors Notification: September 9, 2026 Camera Ready and Registration: September 18, 2026
Co-chairs of the Special Session:
Hristo Tanev Joint Research Centre, Data Intelligence for Policy Unit, European Commission, Italy
Milena Slavcheva Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Bertrand De Longueville Joint Research Centre, Text Mining and Artificial Intelligence Competence Centre, European Commission, Italy