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---------- LAST EXTENSION: Canadian AI 2025 - Final Deadline Extension ---------- ---------- May 26-29, 2025, in Calgary, Alberta ---------- ---------- FINAL Deadline Extension: Thursday, Feb 20, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE) ----------

Dear Colleagues,

We want to thank all those who have submitted papers so far to our conference. In response to ongoing requests, we are granting one FINAL extension. The new and final submission deadline is **Thursday, Feb 20, 2025, by 11:59 p.m. AoE**.

We invite submissions in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, either theoretical or applied, to the 38th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, taking place in Calgary on May 26-29. We also welcome position papers, which present evidence-based arguments for a particular point of view without necessarily introducing a new system.

Conference proceedings will be published in PubPub open-access online format and submitted to be indexed/abstracted in leading indexing services such as DBLP, ACM, and Google Scholar.

---------- Submission Details ----------

Canadian AI is accepting submissions of both long and short papers: Long papers: Maximum 12 pages (including references) Short papers: Maximum 6 pages (including references) Formats: LaTeX and Word submissions are accepted

**NEW: Each submission may include an Appendix (PDF) as supplementary material.**

More information and submission templates are available under Submission Details here: https://www.caiac.ca/en/conferences/canadianai-2025/call-papers

**The portal for submission can be found here:** https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CANADIANAI2025/

All submissions must be original, anonymized for double-blind review, and not under review elsewhere (preprints are acceptable if the title differs).

---------- Topics of Interest Include ---------- - Agent Systems - AI Applications - Automated Reasoning - Case‐based Reasoning - Cognitive Models - Constraint Satisfaction - Data Mining - Deep Learning and Neural Models - E‐Commerce - Ethics in AI, AI for social good - Evolutionary Computation - Explainable AI - Fair, Secure, Private, and Trusted AI - Games - Information Retrieval and Search - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Representation - Large Language Models - Machine Learning - Multimedia Processing - Natural Language Processing - Planning - Robotics - Uncertainty - User Modeling - Web Mining and Applications

Authors of accepted long papers will be allotted time for an oral presentation during the conference. Accepted short papers will also be allotted time for a 5-minute oral presentation, followed by a poster session presentation. It is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper to attend the conference in person to present their work. Authors are expected to agree to this requirement before submitting their paper for review. Furthermore, the corresponding author of each paper must complete and sign a copyright form on behalf of all authors associated with the paper. It is important that the corresponding author who signs the copyright form matches the corresponding author listed on the paper.

---------- Important Dates ---------- - FINAL Submission Deadline: **Thursday, Feb 20, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE)** - Author Notification: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - Camera-Ready Copy Due: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - Conference Dates: May 26-29, 2025

---------- Awards ---------- Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award will be given at the conference. To qualify for the student award, the first author must be a registered student at submission.

---------- Program Chairs ---------- Paula Branco School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa pbranco@uottawa.ca https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/view/profile/members/4218?lang=en Amine Trabelsi Département d'informatique, Université de Sherbrooke Amine.Trabelsi@USherbrooke.ca https://www.usherbrooke.ca/informatique/trabelsi

We look forward to your participation in Canadian AI 2025!