Authors are invited to submit original papers in PDF format to the submission website.

📃 Submission Type

The workshop provides a platform to share experimental and theoretical results, present artefacts, demos and datasets, as well as broad discussion or survey papers. Therefore, ANSyA invites researchers and practitioners to submit the following types of contribution:

  1. Full or short papers about NeSy approaches, emphasising practical aspects, applications, or applicability to real-world problems. Full papers should be limited to 7 pages, while short papers should be limited to 2 pages (excluding references).

  2. Artefact papers presenting software applications tools and libraries with proven potential to impact the NeSy domain. Artefact papers should be limited to 2 pages (excluding references).

  3. Demo papers presenting in detail the usage of software tools which may be relevant in the NeSy domain. Demo papers should be limited to 2 pages (excluding references).

  4. Dataset description papers presenting the details of datasets that can be used in the NeSy domain. Dataset description papers should be limited to 2 pages (excluding references).

  5. Report papers presenting valuable lessons learned in engineering NeSy design and/or applying NeSy to specific fields. Report papers should be limited to 7 pages (excluding references).

  6. Position papers concerning NeSy applications in specific fields. Position papers should be limited to 2 pages (excluding references).

  7. Survey papers, concerning any of the above. Survey papers should be limited to 7 pages (excluding references).

❗ Preliminary or already-published work can be submitted, provided that the submission is clearly marked as such. ❗

📋 Submission Guidelines

  • Submissions should be in ECAI LaTeX format;
  • Submissions must be exported in PDF format;
  • Camera-ready versions shall include the LaTeX source files;
  • Submissions must be anonymised for double-blind review.

🔬 Topics of Interest

Given the broad categorization of NeSy AI systems, we welcome papers that propose applications and engineering research in various domains, including (but not limited to):

  • Neuro-Symbolic integration application in cybersecurity
  • Neuro-Symbolic integration and intelligent agents
  • Neuro-Symbolic integration and intelligent networked systems
  • Neuro-Symbolic integration application in healthcare
  • Neuro-Symbolic integration and large language models
  • Neuro-Symbolic integration application in robotics
  • Neuro-Symbolic integration application in computer vision
  • Neuro-Symbolic integration for planning
  • Neuro-Symbolic integration for programming (e.g., program synthesis)
  • Symbolic knowledge extraction (SKE) or injection (SKI)
  • Theorem proving via Neuro-Symbolic integration
  • Automated reasoning via Neuro-Symbolic integration
  • AI trustworthiness (explainable, fair, etc.) via Neuro-Symbolic integration
  • Symbolic regression via Neuro-Symbolic integration
  • Inductive logic programming via Neuro-Symbolic integration

Twin communities: We also welcome contributions from twin communities leveraging different nomenclature for similar concepts, such as informed-machine learning, symbolic knowledge extraction or injection, etc.

📝 Reviewing Format

ANSyA follows a 2-phase reviewing process:

  1. Each submission will undergo a traditional double-blind review process. This phase applies to all papers, regardless of type, and will determine the final acceptance or rejection decision.
  2. The second phase occurs during and after the workshop: accepted contributions are presented (as posters) at the workshop, and authors may collect further comments and insights. After that, authors who are willing to publish their contribution to the workshop proceedings will be requested to produce a final version of the paper, addressing the reviewers’ suggestions and possibly integrating comments and insights from the workshop.

All papers will undergo the standard assessment in which reviewers will be asked to consider the submission focusing on its:

  • scope: is the paper on-topic w.r.t. the workshop’s track or theme?
  • significance: is the idea proposed in the paper meaningful for the NeSy community? Are the results relevant?
  • soundness: is the approach proposed in the paper correct and robust? Are experiments (if any) well-designed?
  • clarity: is the paper clear and well organized? Is the discussion complete?
  • contextualization: is relevant background and related literature being adequately referenced?
  • novelty: is the contribution novel either from a conceptual or technical perspective?
  • practical applicability: is the proposed idea applicable in practice? Can it scale? Do the authors provide convincing evidence?

Furthermore, the reviews will take into account the specific characteristics of the submitted contributions to obtain their final decision. For example, submissions proposing novel software will receive a score depending also on the quality of the shared software. Similarly, demo papers will receive a score depending on the usability and utility of the tool under demonstration.

📖 Proceedings

The workshop will publish its own proceedings onto Scopus-indexed repositories, such as CEUR-WS.

❗ Important note: Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings only if the authors explicitly agree to do so. In this way, works which are not mature enough for publication, as well as works which have already been published elsewhere can be presented and discussed at the workshop.