日本データベース学会の皆様 お世話になります、東京工科大学の中西です。 説明可能なAI(XAI)をスコープにした国際会議である XAI2026がFortaleza, Brazilで01-03 July, 2026の日程が開催されます。 そのCFPを送付させていただきます。締め切りはFebruary 1, 2026です。 本会議のGeneral Chairの一人であります、Luca Longo博士から 日本、アジアからの論文投稿を強く望まれています。 XAIに関する研究成果がございましたら、ぜひご投稿を検討ください。 何卒よろしくお願いいたします。 ------------ 中西崇文 東京工科大学 コンピュータサイエンス学部　教授 〒192-0982 東京都八王子市片倉町1404-1 研究棟A601　 nakanishitf@stf.teu.ac.jp 042-637-2445 _____________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS: https://xaiworldconference.com/2026/call-for-papers/ _____________________________________________________________________ Artificial intelligence has undergone a significant shift in focus, with a growing emphasis on designing and developing intelligent systems that are both interpretable and explainable. This is due to the complexity of the models, built from data, and the legal requirements imposed by various national and international parliaments. This has been echoed both in the research literature and the press, attracting scholars worldwide and a lay audience. An emerging field in AI is Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI), which is devoted to producing intelligent systems that enable humans to understand their inferences, assessments, predictions, recommendations, and decisions. Initially devoted to designing post-hoc methods for explainability, eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) is rapidly expanding its boundaries to neuro-symbolic methods for producing self-interpretable models. Research has also shifted the focus to the structure of explanations and human-centred Artificial Intelligence, as the ultimate users of interactive technologies are humans. ------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Authors/title registration on submission platform – (easy-chair)* (it remains open until the paper submission deadline below): January, 15, 2026 Article upload deadline on submission platform (easy-chair)*: February 1, 2026 Paper bidding for reviewers February 2-4, 2026 Review submission deadlines for reviewers February 20, 2026 Notification of acceptance*: February 22, 2026 Registration (payment) and camera-ready* (upload to easy-chair): February 28, 2026 Article presentation instructions notification June, 2026 Publication (Springer CCIS series) September/October, 2026 ------------------------------ The World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence is an annual event that aims to bring together researchers, academics, and professionals, promoting the sharing and discussion of knowledge, new perspectives, experiences, and innovations in the field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI). This event is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, bringing together academics and scholars of different disciplines, including Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Law and Social Science, to mention a few, and industry practitioners interested in the practical, social and ethical aspects of the explanation of the models emerging from the discipline of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The conference organisation encourages submissions related to explainable AI and contributions from academia, industry, and other organisations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches related to the explainability and interpretability of AI systems. Submitted manuscripts must be novel and not substantially duplicate existing work. Manuscripts must be written using Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) in the format provided here. Latex and word files are admitted; however, the former is preferred. All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically. The conference has a no dual submission policy, so submitted manuscripts must not be currently under review at another publication venue. Articles must be submitted using the easy-chair platform here. While registering on the platform, the contact author must provide the following information: paper title, all author names, affiliations, postal address, e-mail address, and at least three keywords. The conference will not require a strict page number, as we believe authors have different writing styles and would like to produce scientific material differently. However, the following types of articles are admitted: ------------------------------ ARTICLE TYPES full articles between 14 and 24 pages (including references) short articles between 10 and 14 pages (including references) Full articles should report on original and substantial contributions of lasting value, and the work should concern the theory and/or practice of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI). Moreover, manuscripts showcasing the innovative use of xAI methods, techniques, and approaches and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying xAI-based technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. Evaluations of proposed solutions and applications should be commensurate with the claims made in the article. Full articles should reflect more complex innovations or studies and have a more thorough discussion of related work. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented sufficiently to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. We recognise that user data may be proprietary or confidential; therefore, we encourage sharing (anonymized, cleaned) data sets, data collection procedures, and code. Results and findings should be communicated clearly, and implication s of the contributions for xAI as a field and beyond should be explicitly discussed. Shorter articles should generally report on advances that can be described, set into context, and evaluated concisely. These articles are not ‘work-in-progress’ reports but complete studies focused on smaller but complete research work, simple to describe. For these articles, the discussion of related work and contextualisation in the wider body of knowledge can be smaller than that of full articles. ------------------------------ APPENDIXES and supplemental material Appendices and supplemental material must be placed within the article and the maximum number of pages mentioned above. ------------------------------ SPECIAL SESSION ARTICLES The article submitted to the special sessions follows the submission procedure of the main track and must be submitted via EasyChair, as mentioned above. The types of articles admitted are full and shorter, as described above. The authors of an article to be associated with a special session must select the name of such special session in the list of topics in EasyChair, along with other relevant topics. ------------------------------ AUTHOR COMMITTING TO REVIEW By submitting to the conference, each senior manuscript author (holding at least a PhD) volunteers to be added to the pool of potential PC members/reviewers for the conference and may be asked to review manuscripts. This does not apply to authors who have already agreed to contribute to the conference in some capacity (e.g., as PC/SPC members of the main conference or special tracks, area chairs, or members of the organising committee) and authors who are not qualified to be on the programme committee. ------------------------------ THE PEER-REVIEW PROCESS All articles submitted within the deadlines and per the guidelines will be subjected to a single-blind review. Authors can also opt-out to disclose their names. However, authors will not know the names of their reviewers. Papers that are out of scope, incomplete, or lack sufficient evidence to support the basic claims may be rejected without full review. Manuscripts that do not conform to the specified formatting style will be desk-rejected. A non-dual policy submission exists, and articles submitted parallel to another conference/journal will be desk-rejected. Furthermore, reviewers will be asked to comment on whether the length is appropriate for the contribution. Each submitted article will be reviewed by at least two appropriate committee members (main/special track programme committee, late-breaking work/demo/DC committee). After completion of the review process, the authors will be informed about the acceptance or rejection of the submitted work. The reviewers’ comments will be available to the authors if they are not desk-rejected. In case of acceptance, authors must meet the recommendations for improvement and prepare and submit the definitive version of the work up to the camera-ready paper submission deadline. In case of failure to consider the recommendations made by the reviewers, the organizing committee, the chairs and the editors reserve the right not to include these works in any of the planned conference proceedings. The article’s final version must follow the appropriate style guide and contain the authors’ data (names, institutions and emails) and the ORCID details. Submitted articles will be evaluated according to their originality, technical soundness, significance of findings, contribution to knowledge, clarity of exposition and organisation and applicability. ------------------------------ PUBLICATION AND INDEXING Each accepted and presented full, short paper (for the main and special tracks), presented either as an oral presentation or as a poster, will be included in the conference proceedings by Springer in Communications in Computer and Information Science, edited by the general/PC chairs. At least one author of each accepted paper must pay the related fees and register for the conference by the deadline. The official publication date is when the publisher makes the proceedings available online. This date will be after the conference and can take some weeks. If authors want to publish their article OPEN ACCESS (upon a fee with Springer), please refer to this page.