FLAIRS-39 continues a tradition of presenting and discussing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and related research in a collegial atmosphere within a beautiful setting. Events include invited speakers, special tracks, discussion panels, and presentations of papers and posters, as well as awards. Traditionally, FLAIRS features not only some of the world’s leading researchers and excellent speakers, but also high-quality submissions from students.

Topics of interest are in all areas of (or related to) artificial intelligence, including, but not limited to:

Foundations

• Knowledge representation
• Cognitive modeling
• Perception
• Reasoning and programming
• Learning
• Multimodal AI
• Foundation models

Architectures

• Agents and Distributed AI
• Intelligent User Interfaces
• Natural language
• Generative AI
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Information retrieval
• Robotics
• AI Safety and Alignment
• Edge AI

Applications

• Aviation and aerospace
• Education
• Medicine
• Management and manufacturing
• Finance and fintech
• Agriculture and sustainability
• Climate and environmental modeling
• Legal tech

Implications

• Philosophical foundations
• Social impact and ethics
• Verifiable and explainable AI
• Evaluation of AI systems
• Teaching AI
• AI governance and policy
• Bias and fairness in AI

Special Areas

• Spatio-Temporal Reasoning
• Machine Learning
• Data Mining
• Computational Linguistics
• Uncertain Reasoning
• Artificial Intelligence in Education
• Games & Entertainment
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Case-Based Reasoning
• Applied Natural Language Processing
• Affective Computing
• AI and Cognitive Science
• Healthcare Informatics
• Cybersecurity
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• AI for scientific discovery 

Types of submissions

NEW FOR FLAIRS-39: Accepted papers may be expanded for publication beyond the submission page limits; see details below.

There are three types of paper submissions: 

• Full paper – a paper describing mature novel research, up to 6 pages excluding references for submission. Accepted papers will be published with up to 7 pages in the proceedings and presented by the author in a 20-minute oral presentation. Rejected full papers might be accepted as short papers or posters, if reviewers find the idea interesting but the paper quality was not sufficient to be published in full length. 
• Short paper – a paper that shows some novelty and general interest but is more preliminary or in the early stages of development, up to 4 pages excluding references for submission. Accepted papers will be published with up to 5 pages in the proceedings and presented by the author in a 10-minute oral presentation.
• Poster paper – up to 2 pages excluding references for submission. Accepted papers will be published with up to 2 pages in the proceedings and presented by the author in a poster session.

Appendices after the references are permitted but might not be reviewed, and appendices will not be permitted in the final version of the paper if it is accepted. 

Double-blind reviewing is used, so submitted papers must use anonymized author names and affiliations. Papers must use the FLAIRS-39 template and must be submitted as a PDF.

FLAIRS will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also required not to submit their papers elsewhere during FLAIRS's review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences, not to workshops and similar specialized presentations with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. Authors will be required to confirm that their submissions conform to these requirements at the time of submission.

Proceedings

The proceedings of FLAIRS-39 will be published by Florida Online Journals (https://journals.flvc.org/) which is indexed in DBLP and Scopus. Authors are expected to make a reasonable effort to address reviewers’ comments prior to the submission of the camera-ready paper. Where such expectations have not been met, actions may be taken to maintain the quality of the conference and the expectations of attendees.

For a paper to be published in the proceedings, all accepted papers (full, short and poster) must be accompanied by at least one AUTHOR REGISTRATION.  It is also expected that at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present their work.  A single author registration allows for a maximum of two papers per AUTHOR REGISTRATION. Author names may be changed or re-ordered after reviewing; however, for budgetary reasons, registration fees will be based on the details at the time of submission and review.

Paper submission 

Paper submission is a two-step process. First, the paper abstract must be registered in EasyChair by the Paper abstract submission deadline. Then, the full paper in PDF is due by the Paper submission deadline. Without registering an abstract on time, it will not be possible to submit the paper later.

Authors Kit: Author Template.zip

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flairs39

Important dates: https://www.flairs-39.info/important-dates

Program Co-Chairs:

Chris Alvin, Furman University (chris.alvin@furman.edu)

Ismaïl Biskri, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Ismail.Biskri@uqtr.ca)