[AISWorld] IJCAI 2023 | Call for Papers

[Aurona Gerber]

*Important Dates (all times are Anywhere On Earth, UTC-12)*

·        *Submission site opening: *January 4, 2023

·        *Abstract submission deadline: *January 11, 2023

·        *Author information deadline:* January 16, 2023

·        *Full paper submission deadline*: January 18, 2023

·        *Appendix and resubmission information deadline*: January 23, 2023

·        *Summary reject notification:* February 24, 2023

·        *Author response period:* March 20-23, 2023

·        *Paper notification:* April 19, 2023

Submissions are invited for the 32nd International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, which is planned to be held in Cape Town, South
Africa, from Aug 19th to Aug 25th, 2023. Starting from 1969, IJCAI has
remained the premier conference bringing together the international AI
community to communicate the advances and achievements of artificial
intelligence research.

Submissions to IJCAI 2023 should report on significant, original, and
previously unpublished results on any aspect of artificial intelligence.
Papers on novel AI research problems, on AI techniques for novel
application domains, and papers that cross discipline boundaries within AI
are especially encouraged.



In addition to the main track, the authors will be able to submit papers to
the two multiyear special tracks (AI for Good and AI, The Arts and
Creativity), as well as the survey track; these tracks will post their own
calls for papers later this year, and their deadlines, procedures and
policies may differ from what is described below.



A selection of the best papers submitted to IJCAI 2023 will be invited for
a fast track in the Artificial Intelligence Journal and/or the Journal of
AI Research.

*New in 2023*

*Page limit:  *papers must be no longer than *9* pages in total: *7* pages
for the body of the paper and *2* pages for references; the optional ethics
statement can be placed either in the body of the paper or in the reference
pages.  For accepted papers, the last two pages can also contain
acknowledgements and the contribution statement.



*Authors commit to review: *by submitting to the conference, each author
volunteers to be entered into the pool of potential PC members/reviewers
for IJCAI 2023, and may be asked to review papers for the conference. This
does not apply to authors who have already agreed to contribute to IJCAI'23
in some capacity (e.g., as PC/SPC members of the main conference or special
tracks, area chairs, or members of the organizing committee) and authors
who are not qualified to be IJCAI PC members (e.g., undergraduate students,
junior graduate students, researchers with limited track record in AI).
This requirement may be waived in a limited range of exceptional
circumstances (researchers leaving academia, parental leave, etc.)



*Separate deadline for technical appendix and resubmission information: *the
authors are given five extra days after the submission deadline to update
their technical appendix and resubmission information.



*Simplified procedure for resubmission information: *the authors must
declare whether their paper has been rejected from another peer-reviewed
conference in the last 12 months before the submission. They will be
requested to upload the latest rejected version (anonymized if necessary)
together with the reviewer comments; a cover letter with a response to the
reviews is optional. To avoid bias, the resubmission information will be
made available to reviewers only after they submit their own reviews. The
program committee reserves the right to reject papers that fail to report
resubmission information. Further, reviewers will be encouraged to check
whether the resubmission addresses factual issues pointed out in the
reviews of the previous version (e.g., typos, incorrect attribution of
results, etc.) and to reject submissions that fail to do so.



*Contribution statement: *for accepted papers, the authors can include
contribution information, explicitly indicating the contribution of each of
the co-authors to the paper.

*Selection Process*

*Selection criteria:  *Selection criteria include the novelty and
originality of ideas, correctness, clarity, significance of results,
potential impact and quality of the presentation.



*Summary rejects*: The reviewing process will proceed in two phases. In
Phase 1, every paper will be reviewed by two PC members. If a paper
receives two good-quality reviews that are not sufficiently positive in
Phase 1, it will be rejected without any opportunity to submit an author
response.  By submitting a paper, authors acknowledge that they are aware
of the possibility of receiving a summary rejection notification.



*Full paper review*: Papers passing the summary reject step will go through
the full reviewing process. Each paper will be reviewed by a group of
 PC-members (PCs), and a Senior PC member (SPC) will coordinate the PC
review process and write a meta-review with a recommendation, cross-checked
by an Area Chair (AC).



*Author response: *The full paper review process will include the
opportunity for authors to respond to the reviews. Author responses should
be concise, and are not intended to create a dialogue between reviewers and
authors. Author responses will be visible to AC, SPC, and PCs.



*(Optional) triple blind reviewing*: By default, from the perspective of
the Senior Program Committee members (SPC) and Program Committee members
(PC),  the reviewing process will be triple blind, i.e., SPC/PCs cannot see
the identities of authors and other SPC/PCs, and vice versa. However,
during the discussion phase, the PC members and the SPC member are allowed
to reveal their names to each other, by signing their comments. The choice
to reveal one's name to the co-reviewers is optional, and no one should be
pressured to do so. In any case, this information will not be made
available to the paper authors. Author identities are also invisible to
Area Chairs (ACs) and vice versa.



*Participation in the conference. * At least one author of each accepted
paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work. We
are looking forward to the community meeting in person. However, we are
prepared to make the necessary accommodations for authors who are unable to
attend the conference because of travel restrictions or visa/passport
issues.



*Ethics policy and ethics statement: *similarly to the 2022 edition of the
conference, we will employ a light-weight ethics review policy for IJCAI
2023. Reviewers will be asked to flag glaring violations of ethical
principles. Such flagged submissions will be reviewed by the Ethics Chair.
In rare situations, the Program Chair advised by the Ethics Chair, reserves
the right to reject submission on ethical grounds. However, we expect that
the primary response to ethical concerns will be to require authors to
revise their submission to include discussion that identifies these ethical
concerns and suggestions how they might be mitigated.



Authors can include in the main body of their paper, or on the reference
pages, an ethics statement that addresses both ethical issues regarding the
research being reported, and the broader ethical impact of the work. Note
that such an ethics statement is not required, but we recommend that papers
working with sensitive data or on sensitive tasks include such discussion.
The IJCAI review form will include a section asking reviewers and ACs to
flag any serious ethical concerns. Toby Walsh (tw at cse.unsw.edu.au) will
continue to serve as an Ethics Chair for the conference in 2023.



*Conflict of interest policy: *All individuals involved in the IJCAI 2023
review process must adhere to the IJCAI conflict of interest policy.
Details can be found at
https://www.ijcai.org/IJCAI_Conflict_of_Interest_Policy.pdf
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ijcai.org/IJCAI_Conflict_of_Interest_Policy.pdf&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1667385376356728&usg=AOvVaw0KLyQsRHWjjHOsWkUSfFD_>.
All authors of papers submitted to IJCAI 2023 agree to be bound by the
conditions outlined in this call for papers (w.r.t. multiple submissions,
authorship, resubmission policy, submission limit, etc.). Authors and
reviewers acknowledge that IJCAI may take action upon individuals in breach
of the conflict of interest and call for papers policy including – but not
limited to – rejecting their submissions without further review and banning
individuals from submitting their work to a limited number of IJCAI
conferences in the future.



*Withdrawing submitted papers: *all papers that are withdrawn from the
conference after February 7, 2023, Anywhere On Earth (UTC-12), will also be
formally rejected from IJCAI 2023.



*Confidentiality policy: *All submissions will be treated in strict
confidence until the publication date.

*Submission Process*

*Formatting guidelines*: The updated LaTeX styles and Word template will be
made available at
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1667385376357584&usg=AOvVaw2TDSi_HhcWL8vX0TnGHW07>
https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1667385376357800&usg=AOvVaw1lUY_O6yOU0q1LZkfGXrF5>
in
December 2022.



*Submission site*:
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCAI2023&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1667385376358132&usg=AOvVaw2vqQs4O7FEAx8wGMO5xbX8>
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCAI2023
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCAI2023&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1667385376358327&usg=AOvVaw11hb89L8D9QbmFdwqw1tvW>



*Mandatory abstract submission*: The paper title, author names, contact
details, and a brief abstract must be submitted electronically through the
IJCAI 2023 paper submission site (link above) by the abstract submission
deadline. It will be possible to make minor edits to the title and abstract
until the full paper submission deadline. However, submissions with
“placeholder” abstracts may be removed without consideration.



*Author Information:* Full papers must be submitted through the same site
by the paper submission deadline. The list of author names provided at
Author Information Deadline is final. Authors may not be added to, or
removed from, papers following submission. (The author ordering may still
be changed during the camera-ready period.)

All authors are required to log in and fill out a user information form in
CMT by the Author Information deadline. The author information is important
to control the COIs in the review process. If any co-author does not
register and enters the necessary information, a submission may be rejected
without review.



*Submission limit:* IJCAI 2023 will enforce a strict submission limit. Each
individual author is limited to no more than *8* submissions to IJCAI 2023.



*Keywords:* When submitting abstracts, authors will be required to choose
up to three content area keywords (these are called “subject areas” in
CMT). General categories should be used only if specific categories do not
apply or do not accurately reflect the main contributions. The full list of
keywords will be available on the submission site.



*Copyright*:  IJCAI 2023 is a conference held under the IJCAI rules. The
papers published there will be solely IJCAI publications with IJCAI as
copyright holder.

*Submission Requirements*

*Paper format*: Papers submitted to  IJCAI 2023 must be formatted according
to the IJCAI 2023 guidelines (link above). Submissions must be
self-contained. Authors are required to submit their electronic papers in
PDF format. Submissions that violate the  IJCAI 2023 style (e.g., by
decreasing margins or font sizes) may be rejected without review.



*Paper length*: Papers must be no longer than *9* pages in total: *7* pages
for the body of the paper (including all figures/tables), plus up to
*2* additional
pages with references; the optional ethics statement can be placed either
in the body of the paper or in the reference pages. For accepted papers,
acknowledgements and the contribution statement can be included in the two
reference pages. Moreover, for accepted papers, up to two additional pages
may be purchased at an additional cost per page. Overlength papers will be
rejected without review.



*Supplementary material*: Authors may submit up to 50MB of supplementary
material, such as appendices, proofs, derivations, data, or source code;
all supplementary material must be in PDF or ZIP format. Supplementary
material should be material, created by the authors, that directly supports
the submission content. Like submissions, supplementary material must be
anonymized. There are two entries for supplementary files in the CMT
system: one is “TechnicalAppendix”, and the other one is
“ResubmissionFile”. The latter one should be used for providing
resubmission information only. Looking at the technical appendix is at the
discretion of the reviewers.



*Anonymity*: From the perspective of the authors, reviewing for  IJCAI 2023
is double blind. As an author, you are responsible for anonymizing your
submission. In particular, you should not include author names or
affiliations in your submission, and you should avoid providing any other
identifying information (even in the supplementary material).
Acknowledgments of funding or assistance should also be omitted at the
submission stage. When referring to one’s own work, use the third person,
rather than the first person. For example, say “Previously, Elkind et al.
[8] have shown that…”, rather than “In our previous work [8], we have shown
that…”. All identifying information can be added back to the final
camera-ready version of accepted papers. Supplementary material (including
the resubmission information) and code should also be anonymized
(including, for instance, hardcoded paths or URLs that may give away login
identifiers or institutions). In case of resubmissions, if the previous
version of the paper was non-anonymous, the authors are asked to
remove/cover their names, affiliations and acknowledgements in the
resubmission PDF, but not to alter the previous version or the reviews in
any other way. The authors should also take care to remove identifying
information from the PDF metadata. Submissions that clearly violate
anonymity will be rejected without further review.



*Preprints*: The existence of non-anonymous preprints (on arXiv, social
media, websites, etc.) and prior publication in non-archival venues will
not result in rejection. Note that the submission to CMT must always be
anonymized regardless of whether a preprint has been released. Reviewers
will be instructed not to actively look for such preprints, but
encountering them will not constitute a conflict of interest.



*Reproducibility*: Authors must follow the *reproducibility
*guidelines (available
here
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ijcai-22.org/reproducibility&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1667385376360562&usg=AOvVaw1NLyEbLH16jyVB3M_o-C-c>)
and checklist at the time of paper submission.



*Ethics Statement: *Authors may include a statement of the potential
broader impact of their work, including its ethical aspects and future
societal consequences. This part can be put in either the main body of the
paper or on the reference pages. It is optional but is highly recommended
for papers working with sensitive data or on sensitive tasks.



*Dual submissions*: IJCAI 2023 will not accept any paper that, at the time
of submission, is under review for, has already been published in, or has
already been accepted for publication in a journal or another venue with
formally published proceedings. (As a guideline, authors should regard
publications with a DOI, ISBN, or ISSN as formal publications. Questions
about submission eligibility should be referred to the program chair before
the submission deadline.) Authors are also required not to submit their
papers to venues with formally published proceedings during the  IJCAI 2023
review period. These restrictions do not apply to workshops and similar
specialized presentations without formally published proceedings.



The full call is also available here <https://ijcai-23.org/call-for-papers/>.



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