PRICAI is an annual event showcasing original and innovative AI work and its applications in areas relevant to the Pacific Rim's socioeconomic challenges. PRICAI offers a vibrant forum for academics, practitioners, and educators to promote AI and its societal impact. The 23rd Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2026) will be held at South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.

Paper Submission

Proceedings of PRICAI 2026 will be published by Springer as a volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Papers should be submitted electronically using the conference management tool in PDF format and formatted using the Springer LNAI template. Submitted papers should not exceed 16 pages (including references).

Submissions must not be published or under consideration to be published elsewhere.

Topics of Interest

The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • AI Foundations
  • AI Regulations and Ethics
  • Agents
  • Applications of AI
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Bio-inspired Intelligence
  • Bioinformatics
  • Causality
  • Cognitive Computing
  • Cognitive Systems
  • Constraint Satisfaction
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Decision Theory
  • Education and Tutoring Systems
  • Evolutionary Computation
  • Explainable AI
  • Foundational Models
  • Game Theory
  • Games and Interactive Entertainment
  • Generative AI
  • Heuristics
  • Information Retrieval
  • Internet of Things
  • Knowledge Acquisition and Ontology
  • Knowledge Management
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Large Language Models
  • Machine Learning
  • Markov Networks
  • Multimedia and Arts
  • Multimodal Interaction
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning
  • Planning and Scheduling
  • Probabilistic Inference
  • Reasoning
  • Responsible AI
  • Robotics
  • Search
  • Semantic Web
  • Social Choice Theory
  • Social Intelligence
  • Speech and Dialogue Systems
  • Text/Web/Internet Mining
  • Trustworthy AI
  • Uncertainty
  • Vision and Perception

Important Dates (Tentative)

Paper Submission Due 13 June 2026
Acceptance Notification 8 August 2026
Camera-Ready Due 22 August 2026
Conference 17–20 November 2026

Program Chairs

Prof. Yucheng Jiang

South China Normal University, China

Prof. Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

Vellore Institute of Technology, India

Prof. Patricia Anthony

Lincoln University, New Zealand