CAEPIA 2026 | XXI EDITION
The Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA) is a biennial forum open to researchers from all over the world to present and discuss their latest scientific and technological advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The 21st edition, CAEPIA’26, will take place in Jaén, Spain, from November 11 to 13, 2026. It is organized by the research groups SIMIDAT, SINBAD2, and ASIA from the Universidad de Jaén.
As in previous editions, the objectives are to facilitate the dissemination of new ideas and experiences, strengthen links among the different research groups involved, promote knowledge transfer between early-career researchers and established groups, and contribute to the dissemination of new developments in society. To achieve these objectives, authors are invited to submit original unpublished works describing relevant research on AI from all perspectives: formal, methodological, technical, or applied. Unpublished works will be accepted and may be published in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence or in the CAEPIA Proceedings, as well as outstanding already published works (key papers). See more about types of contributions
Contact: caepia2026@easychair.org
Topics of Interest
Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
- Applications in healthcare, smart homes and smart buildings
- Behaviour modelling
- Cognitive and emotional awareness
- Context awareness
- Environment modelling (homes, hospitals, transport, roads, offices)
- Intention recognition
- Intelligent sensor data fusion and collaboration in multisensor systems and networks
- Mobile/ubiquitous intelligence
- Modelling, representation and reconstruction
- Self-adaptive AmI systems
- Use of mobile, wireless, visual and multimodal sensor networks in intelligent systems
Computer Vision & Robotics
- Activity/behaviour recognition
- Biomedical image analysis
- Biometrics
- Feature extraction, clustering and segmentation
- Image/video analysis
- Localization, navigation and mapping
- Micro robots and micro-manipulation
- Mobile robotics
- Perception systems
- Robot control
Constraints, Search and Planning
- AI in planning games
- Constraint optimization
- Constraint satisfaction
- Dynamic programming
- Heuristic search
- Hierarchical task networks
- Markov decision processes
- Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs)
- Real-time planning
- Satisfiability
- Scheduling
- Theoretical foundations of planning
Creativity and Artificial Intelligence
- AI and news/literature generation
- AI-based artistic creations
- AI-based music generation
- Creative AI
Education and Artificial Intelligence
- Collaborative learning environments
- Educational data mining
- Intelligent tutoring systems and gamification
- Intelligent tutoring systems and simulation
- Machine learning in computer-assisted education systems
- Standards, authoring tools and development methodologies
- Student modelling
- Technologies for specific learning domains
- Virtual pedagogical agents and virtual companions
Explainable and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
- Detection and treatment of bias in data and AI models
- Ethics in data-driven learning
- Evaluation of AI model interpretability
- Explainability and data fusion
- Generation of counterexamples for model inspection
- Methodologies for ethical and responsible use of AI
- Neuro-symbolic reasoning for explaining data-based knowledge
- Post-hoc explainability techniques for AI models
- Reliability of AI model learning
- Security and data privacy in AI models
- Traceability of AI models
- Transparency in AI models
Foundations, Models and Applications of Artificial Intelligence
- AI-based applications
- AI-based models
- AI and Philosophy
- Cognitive aspects of AI
- Emerging topics in AI
- Foundations of AI
Fuzzy Logic
- Applications
- Approximate reasoning
- Computing with words
- Decision making
- Foundations of fuzzy logic
- Fuzzy control
- Fuzzy databases
- Fuzzy logic and data mining
- Hardware for fuzzy logic
- Information aggregation models and techniques
- Information retrieval
- Intelligent web systems
- Knowledge acquisition and representation
- Systems modelling
- Uncertainty modelling
Intelligent Web and Information Retrieval
- Digital libraries
- Information extraction
- Information integration
- Information retrieval
- Question answering systems
- Recommender systems
- Semantic web
- Web 2.0
- Web mining
Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Logic
- Action, change and causality
- Automated reasoning
- Case-based reasoning
- Computational argumentation
- Computational logic
- Description logic and ontologies
- Diagnosis and abductive reasoning
- Knowledge representation
- Logic programming
- Model-based reasoning
- Non-monotonic reasoning
- Preferences and beliefs
- Qualitative reasoning
- Spatial and temporal reasoning
Machine Learning
- Bayesian networks and Markov networks
- Classification
- Clustering
- Data reduction and/or transformation
- Feature selection
- Learning from different data types
- Learning from large-scale data (big data)
- Machine learning applications
- Machine learning in non-standard situations
Multiagent Systems
- Adaptation and self-organization
- Agent-based architectures and programming
- Agent-based models
- Agent-based simulation and emergent behaviour
- Agent communication languages
- Agreement technologies (coordination, negotiation, argument, rules, trust)
- Methodologies and infrastructures (platforms, tools, environments)
- Social, organizational and institutional approaches
Natural Language Processing
- Automatic summarization
- Discourse, dialogue and pragmatics
- Machine translation
- Multilingual language processing
- Natural language modelling
- Natural language processing
- Question answering
- Speech recognition
- Syntactic analysis and grammatical inference
- Text classification and topic detection
- Text mining
- Word sense disambiguation
Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs
- Knowledge graphs
- Linked open data
- Ontologies and experimental data
- Ontology alignment
- Ontology-based information systems
- Upper-level and domain ontologies
Recommender Systems
- Explainability, transparency and fairness in recommendation
- Content-based filtering
- Collaborative filtering
- Context-aware recommendation models
- User profiling and user modelling
- Knowledge-based recommendation
- Group and social recommendation
- Hybrid recommendation
- Conversational recommender systems
Search and Optimization
- Bio-inspired methods
- Hybrid algorithms
- Local and global optimization
- Mathematical programming
- Metaheuristics
- Optimization, search and learning
- Parallel algorithms
- Search and optimization applications
- Search and optimization theory
Uncertainty in AI
- Approximate reasoning
- Bayesian networks
- Decision/Utility theory
- Exact and approximate probabilistic inference
- Modelling, inference, learning and decision making under uncertainty
- Preference elicitation
- Probabilistic graphical models
Important Dates
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LNAI Papers
- Submission: April 30
- Notification: June 1
- Final version: June 15
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CAEPIA Proceedings Papers
- Submission: May 15
- Notification: June 17
- Final version: July 3
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Key Papers
- Submission: May 15
- Notification: June 17
- Final version: July 3
Program Committee
| Researcher | Institution |
|---|---|
| Amparo Alonso-Betanzos | Universidade da Coruña |
| Lourdes Araujo | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia |
| Jose Maria Armingol | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Ivan Armuelles | Universidad de Panamá |
| Jaume Bacardit | Newcastle University |
| Antonio Bahamonde | Universidad de Oviedo |
| Alvaro Barreiro | Universidade da Coruña |
| Edurne Barrenechea | Universidad Pública de Navarra |
| Senén Barro | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela |
| Dena Bazazian | University of Bristol |
| Ana M. Bernardos | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| Concha Bielza | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| Daniel Borrajo | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Juan Botia | King’s College London |
| Alberto Bugarín | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela |
| Humberto Bustince | Universidad Pública de Navarra |
| Pedro Cabalar | Universidade da Coruña |
| José M. Cadenas | Universidad de Murcia |
| Iván Cantador | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Javier Carbó | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Manuel Carranza | Universidad de Sevilla |
| Francisco Chicano | Universidad de Málaga |
| Christian Cintrano | Universidad de Málaga |
| Rafael Corchuelo | Universidad de Sevilla |
| Oscar Cordon | Universidad de Granada |
| David Camilo Corrales | Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture l’alimentation et l’environnement |
| Zakaria Abdelmoiz Dahi | Universite Abdelhamid Mehri Constantine 2 |
| Sergio Damas | Universidad de Granada |
| Andre de Carvalho | Universidade of São Paulo |
| Luis De La Ossa | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Juan José Del Coz | Universidad de Oviedo |
| María José Del Jesús | Universidad de Jaén |
| Javier Del Ser Lorente | Tecnalia Research & Innovation |
| Francisco Javier Díez | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia |
| Jose Dorronsoro | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Javier Echanobe | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea |
| Jorge Fandinno | University of Nebraska Omaha |
| Andrea Fenández Martinez | AIMEN |
| Mariano Fernández | Universidad CEU San Pablo |
| Juan Manuel Fernandez Luna | Universidad de Granada |
| Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis | Universidad de Murcia |
| Antonio Fernández-Caballero | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Francesc J. Ferri | Universitat de València |
| José Manuel Galán | Universidad de Burgos |
| Jose Gamez | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Pablo García Bringas | Universidad de Deusto |
| Mikel Garcia de Andoin | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea |
| Jesús García Herrero | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Raúl García-Castro | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| Rodrigo Gil-Merino | Universidad de Málaga |
| Juan Gomez Romero | Universidad de Granada |
| Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez | Universidade da Coruña |
| Antonio Gonzalez | Universidad de Granada |
| Carlos González Val | AIMEN |
| Manuel Graña | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea |
| Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas | Universidade da Coruña |
| Cesar Hervas | Universidad de Córdoba |
| José Antonio Iglesias Martínez | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Inaki Inza | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea |
| Luis Jimenez | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Salud María Jiménez-Zafra | Universidad de Jaén |
| Kaisar Kushibar | Universitat de Barcelona |
| Pedro Lara-Benítez | Universidad de Sevilla |
| Pedro Larranaga | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| Agapito Ledezma | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Juan Pedro Llerena | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Adolfo Lopez | Universidad de Valladolid |
| Victoria López | Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros |
| Beatriz López | Universitat de Girona |
| Pilar López-Úbeda | Universidad de Jaén |
| Ascension Lopez-Vargas | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Gabriel Luque | Universidad de Málaga |
| Lawrence Mandow | Universidad de Málaga |
| Felip Manyà | Instituto de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial - CSIC |
| Mar Marcos | Universitat Jaume I |
| Pablo Marin | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Patricio Martínez | Universidad de Alicante |
| Rafael Martinez | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia |
| Eugenio Martinez-Camara | Universidad de Granada |
| Jose Massa | Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
| José María Massa | - |
| Rafael Medina-Carnicer | Universidad de Córdoba |
| Marcos Mejia | Universitat de Barcelona |
| Belen Melian | Universidad de La Laguna |
| Pedro Meseguer | Instituto de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial - CSIC |
| Eva Millan | Universidad de Málaga |
| Salar Mohtaj | - |
| Jose M. Molina | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Miguel Molina Solana | Universidad de Granada |
| Serafín Moral | Universidad de Granada |
| José Angel Morell | Universidad de Málaga |
| Javier Muguerza | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea |
| Antonio Muñoz | Universidad de Málaga |
| Bhalaji Nagarajan | Universitat de Barcelona |
| Ismael Navas | Universidad de Málaga |
| Jose Fernando Nuñez | Universitat de Barcelona |
| Manuel Ojeda-Aciego | Universidad de Málaga |
| Jose Angel Olivas | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Eva Onaindia | Universitat Politècnica de València |
| Sascha Ossowski | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos |
| Jose Palma | Universidad de Murcia |
| C. Alejandro Parraga | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Miguel Angel Patricio | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Juan Pavón | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| Antonio Peregrin | Universidad de Huelva |
| Eduardo Perez | Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba |
| José Luis Pérez de la Cruz | Universidad de Malaga |
| Giuseppe Pezzano | Universitat de Barcelona |
| Hector Pomares | Universidad de Granada |
| Jose M Puerta | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Camino R. Vela | Universidad de Oviedo |
| Noelia Rico | Universidad de Oviedo |
| Ramon Rizo | Universidad de Alicante |
| Javier Rodenas | Universitat de Barcelona |
| Alejandro Rodriguez | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| Rosa Rodríguez | Universidad de Jaén |
| Diego Gabriel Rossit | Universidad Nacional del Sur - CONICET |
| Elias Said | Universidad Internacional de la Rioja |
| Antonio Salmeron | Universidade de Almería |
| Luciano Sanchez | Universidad de Oviedo |
| Jose Salvador Sanchez | Universitat Jaume I |
| Araceli Sanchis | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Estela Saquete | - |
| Encarna Segarra | Universitat Politècnica de València |
| M. Paz Sesmero | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Igor Škrjanc | Univerza v Ljubljani |
| Emilio Soria | Universitat de València |
| Maria Taboada | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela |
| Estefania Talavera | University of Groningen |
| Erik Torrontegui | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Alicia Troncoso | Universidad Pablo de Olavide |
| L. Alfonso Ureña-López | Universidad de Jaén |
| Rafael Valencia-Garcia | Universidad de Murcia |
| Alfredo Vellido | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| Sebastián Ventura | Universidad de Córdoba |
| José Ramón Villar | Universidad de Oviedo |
| Guobiao Zhang | - |
