12^th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AI 2026)

December 26 ~ 27, 2026, Dubai, UAE

Scope & Topics

12^thInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AI 2026) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Artificial Intelligence and its applications. The Conference looks for significant contributions to all major fields of the Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing in theoretical and practical aspects. The aim of the Conference is to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field.

Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to..

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following

• Machine Learning
• Neural Networks and Deep Learning
• State Space Models (SSMs) and Mamba Architectures
• Self Supervised and Representation Learning
• Foundation Models and Large Scale Pretraining
• Generative AI, Diffusion Models and Flow Matching
• Mixture of Experts (MoE) and Sparse Transformers
• Test Time Compute, Test Time Training and Inference Time Optimization
• Speculative Decoding and Fast LLM Inference
• LLM Fine Tuning (LoRA/QLoRA) and Adaptation
• Preference Optimization (DPO/ORPO/IPO)
• LLM Evaluation, Hallucination Reduction and Long Context Models
• Memory Augmented Models and Differentiable Memory Systems
• Natural Language Processing
• Computer Vision
• Multimodal AI and Vision Language Models
• Audio Language and Video Language Models
• 3D Vision, NeRFs and Spatial AI
• Geospatial Foundation Models and Earth AI
• World Models and Predictive Simulation
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Graph RAG
• Reasoning, Formal Verification and Symbolic Neural AI
• Agentic AI and Autonomous LLM Agents
• LLM Multi Agent Systems and Emergent Social Behavior
• Multimodal Agents and Tool Use Pipelines
• Human AI Interaction, Teaming and Co Creativity
• Embodied AI and Robot Learning
• Vision Language Action (VLA) Models
• Simulation to Real (Sim2Real) Transfer
• Autonomous Systems, Space Robotics and Planetary Exploration
• AI for Autonomous Labs and Experimental Design
• Distributed Training and Parallel AI Systems
• Memory Efficient Training
• Inference Optimization and LLM Serving at Scale
• AI Hardware, Accelerators and Neuromorphic Computing
• Model Compression, Quantization and Efficient Inference
• AI Compilers and Software/Hardware Co Design
• Semantic AI, Knowledge Graphs and Graph Machine Learning
• Neural Search, Ranking and Recommendation
• AI Safety, Alignment and Responsible AI
• AI Red Teaming and Adversarial Testing
• Advanced AI Security: Extraction, Poisoning, Membership Inference
• AI Watermarking, Provenance and Model Fingerprinting
• AI Ethics, Governance and Policy
• AI for Code, Program Synthesis and Automated Debugging
• AI for Healthcare, Bioinformatics and Digital Health Twins
• Bio AI Foundation Models: Protein, Genome and Cell State Modeling
• AI for Scientific Discovery
• AI for Materials Science and Drug Discovery
• AI for Smart Cities, IoT and Intelligent Infrastructure
• AI for Climate and Environmental Modeling
• AI for Finance, Markets and Econometrics
• AI for Law, Policy and Legal Reasoning
• AI for Education and Personalized Learning
• AI for Social Good and Computational Social Science

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by August 22, 2026 . Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).

Selected papers from AI 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals.

• International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications (IJAIA)
  
• International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA)
  
• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic Systems (IJFLS)
  
• International Journal on Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Applications (IJSCAI)
  
• Information Technology in Industry (ITII)

Important Dates

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• 12^th International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIGI 2026)
  
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• 6^th International Conference on NLP and Machine Learning Trends (NLMLT 2026)
  
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***** The invited talk proposals can be submitted to ai@ai2026.org