Connectionists: Call for PhD Forum Contributions - ECML PKDD 2026 - ICORE Rank A

[Vincenzo Pasquadibisceglie]

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The ECML PKDD PhD Forum spans various topics of data mining and machine 
learning, as well as work in related fields such as databases, 
artificial intelligence, statistics, information retrieval, multimedia, 
and the Web. Topics in specific domains, such as bioinformatics and 
general science informatics are also encouraged. Participants with 
interdisciplinary work across the areas are particularly welcome.

The submission requires a title, an author (authors) and an extended 
abstract (up to 2000 characters, excluding spaces+ references), briefly 
describing the work.

The extended abstract can be based either on:

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    A single paper (possibly but not necessarily accepted at the main
    conference )

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    The whole doctoral dissertation, including planned work.

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    Work-in-progress papers:we welcome submissions from PhD students at
    early and middle stages of their PhD work. As guideline, we
    recommend that the submission is structured to explain 1) what the
    problem is, 2) why it is important, 3) why existing solutions in
    literature are insufficient, 4) how your approach works, and 5)
    optionally some preliminary experiments.

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    Additionally, we require asupporting letter/email from the student’s
    supervisorsent to ecml-pkdd-2026-phd-forum-chairs at googlegroups.com


The purpose is to obtain feedback regarding future plans and technical 
feedback on the research topic and writing. Note:

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    The main criteria for acceptance are 1) that the submission is
    clearly structured and written in the English language and 2) that
    it is of sufficient maturity to enable the audience of the PhD Forum
    to provide constructive feedback.

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    Extended abstracts will not be formally published.However, unless
    the authors opt-out, they will be made publicly available through
    the conference website.

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    First authors must be PhD students 1-3 years into their PhD.
    Co-authors may include the research advisors, committee members, and
    other collaborators as needed.

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    In case of acceptance, the work will be presented as a poster at the
    PhD student forum. Also, the few researchers, based on reviewers’
    recommendations, will be given the opportunity to provide a short
    presentation (up to 10 min) followed by a Q&A.

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    We will ask each PhD student to participate in the review process.

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    In-person attendance is required for the PhD forum, i.e., no remote
    attendance is possible. Accepted submissions whose authors cannot
    attend in person will be removed from the final list.


Submission instructions


The papers must be written in English and formatted according to the 
Springer LNAI guidelines. If you have a paper accepted at the main 
conference or workshops, you may also submit the accepted PDF. Author 
instructions and style files can be downloaded here. 
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines?srsltid=AfmBOoo-7iT6-VLIl322Dea91mLWOhOO-1LfYG9tAA3n6AL6BM6KfYz3>(link 
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines?srsltid=AfmBOoo-7iT6-VLIl322Dea91mLWOhOO-1LfYG9tAA3n6AL6BM6KfYz3) 



Submission Deadline: June, 08

Author notification : June, 26

Camera ready: July, 08

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