<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">AIMSA 2026</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><br>
The 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology,
Systems, Applications</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Sofia, Bulgaria, 15-16 October 2026</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><br>
</span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="http://www.aimsaconference.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">www.aimsaconference.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><i><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Generative and Predictive AI</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></i></b></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Initiated in 1984, the
biennial Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA)
conference is a premier single-track forum for exchanging information and
research results on theory and principles of artificial intelligence (AI) along
with real-world applications of intelligent systems technology. The conference
traditionally brings together researchers and practitioners in all areas of AI
from both the academia and industry to meet and share their ideas and
experiences and learn about the recent trends and developments in contemporary
AI.</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">TOPICS</span></b></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;background:white">The
conference is looking for submissions offering innovative methods, systems and
applications that demonstrate efficiency and sustainability for the future of
AI. <i>Efficiency </i>can be demonstrated against current and traditional
methods, systems and applications. <i>Sustainability </i>relates to the
required resources, computational power, human wellbeing, positive impact on
science and the society. </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">Two main areas of contemporary AI will be on the focus of
this conference, <i>generative AI</i>, such as LLM, and <i>predictive AI
systems</i>, such as neuromorphic ones. If properly used, the former can help
improve human knowledge and cognition and the latter – to predict early and to
prevent mental and other health problems. Contemporary topics for presentations
and discussions will be considered in 3 major themes:</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt; line-height: normal;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><span>(1)<span style="font-style: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;background:white">Innovative methods for <i>efficient
</i>and <i>sustainable </i>AI: </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- Advances in AI theories; </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- Advances in neural networks and neurocomputers; </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- Brain-inspired computation;</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- Multimodal data science and AI; <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- Cooperative agents.</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0cm 35.7pt; line-height: normal;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><span>(2)<span style="font-style: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;background:white">Systems for the development and
the implementations of <i>efficient </i>and <i>sustainable </i>AI:</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- LLM based on novel neurocomputers (spike-based
transformers); </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- Agentic AI systems; </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- Neuromorphic agents;</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- Multi-agent systems on the cloud;</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0cm 35.7pt; line-height: normal;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><span>(3)<span style="font-style: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;background:white">Novel <i>efficient </i>and <i>sustainable
</i>AI applications:</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- LLM in education, from primary-, to tertiary- and to
higher education for improved learning and cognitive skills; </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- Improving cognition in elderly population; </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- AI in professional health practice; </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- Predictive AI for early prediction of health
problems, such as: stroke, AD, dementia, MS, ADHD, depression; </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- AI for environmental prediction; </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- AI for personalized medicine; </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- Non-invasive AI methods in health. </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- AI against fake information; </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622v1msonormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black;background:white">- Ethical use of LLM. <span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#2C363A"></span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;background:white">All submissions will be subject
to a single-blind academic peer review by at least three members of the program
committee. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas,
clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation.</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;background:white">The
author(s) of the best paper (which will be selected based on the votes of the
attendees) of the conference will receive the Best Paper Award during the
conference.</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">PROGRAMME
COMMITTEE CHAIR</span></b></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Nikola Kasabov</span></i></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Auckland
University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://academics.aut.ac.nz/nkasabov" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://academics.aut.ac.nz/nkasabov</a></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Visiting
professor in:</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Institute
of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dalian University, China</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">LOCAL
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR</span></b></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Petia
Koprinkova-Hristova</span></i></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Institute
of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Acad. G. Bonchev 2, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria</span><span lang="BG" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:BG"></span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">AIMSA e-mail:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span>aimsa.conference@gmail.com<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">LANGUAGE</span></b><b><span lang="BG" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:BG"></span></b></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
official language of the conference is English</span><span lang="BG" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:BG"></span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Submission deadline:<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>May 24, 2026</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Notification of
acceptance:<span> </span><span> </span>July 1, 2026</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Deadline for
camera-ready:<span> </span><span> </span>July 15, 2026</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Conference:<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>October 15-16 2026</span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">PROCEEDINGS </span></b></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Traditionally, proceedings of AIMSA conferences are
published by Springer Nature in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
subline of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">LOCATION</span></b></p>
<p class="ydp18d31622MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sofia is a vibrant
European city and capital of Bulgaria. It has a long history and many
historical monuments along with a modern architecture.</span></p></div><br></div></div></body></html>