1-3 November 2021

Virtual Event

The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) Virtually

Dear Authors, 

Due to the large volume of papers and the requested extensions the review results will be posted in a week or two the latest. Thank you for your patience on this matter and thank you for your interest in the ICTAI 2021 conference.

Best Regards,
Nikolaos G. Bourbakis
ICTAI Steering Committee Chair 

Important Dates

Paper Submission: July 20 July 26, 2021
Paper Notification: August 20 September 10, 2021
Camera Ready: September 30 October 7, 2021

Welcome to ICTAI 2021

The IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) is a leading IEEE-CS annual scientific meeting for three decades. It provides a major international forum where the creation and exchange of ideas related to artificial intelligence are fostered among academia, industry, and government agencies. The conference facilitates the cross-fertilization of these ideas and promotes their transfer into practical tools, for developing intelligent systems and pursuing artificial intelligence applications. The ICTAI encompasses all technical aspects of specifying, developing and evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms of the AI-based components of computer tools such as algorithms, architectures and languages.

Conference Categories

AI Foundations

  • Evolutionary computing, Bayesian and Neural Networks
  • Decision/Utility Theory and Decision Optimization
  • Search, SAT, and CSP
  • Description Logic and Ontologies

AI in Domain-specific Applications

  • AI in Computational Biology, Medicine and Biomedical Applications
  • AI in WWW, Communication, Social Networking, Recommender Systems, Games and E-Commerce
  • AI in Finance and Risk Management

AI in Computer Systems

  • AI in Robotics, Computer Vision and Games
  • AI in Natural Language Processing
  • AI in Software Engineering, Real-Time and Embedded Applications, and Sensor Networks
  • AI in Cloud Computing, Data-Intensive Applications and Online/Streaming and Multimedia Systems
  • AI in Web Search and Information Retrieval
  • AI in Computer Security, Data Privacy, and Information Assurance

AI in Data Analytics and Big Data

  •  Visual Analytics for Big Data
  •  Computational Modeling for Big Data
  • Large-scale Recommendation and Social Media Systems
  • Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining for Big Velocity Data
  • Semantic-based Big Data Mining

AI in Smart Cities

  • Healthcare, Traffic, Transportation, Environment, etc.


Machine Learning and Data Mining

  • Pre-processing, Dimension Reduction and Feature Selection computing, Bayesian and Neural Networks
  • Learning Graphical Models and Complex Networks
  • Active, Cost-Sensitive, Semi-Supervised, Multi-Instance, Multi-Label and Mulit-Task Learning
  • Transfer/Adaptive, Rational and Structured Learning
  • Preference/Ranking, Ensemble, and Reinforcement Learning

Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Cognitive Modelling

  • Knowledge Representation, Reasoning
  • Knowledge Extraction, Management and Sharing
  • Case-based Reasoning and Knowledge-based Systems
  • Cognitive Modelling and Semantic Web

AI and Decision Systems

  • Decision Guidance and Support Systems
  • Optimization-based Recommender Systems
  • Group, Distributed, and Collaborative Decisions
  • Crowd-sourcing and Collective Intelligence Decision-making
  • Strategic, Tactical and Operational-level Decisions
  • Decision-making in Social and Mobile Networks

Uncertainty in AI

  •  Uncertainty and Fuzziness Representation and Reasoning
  • Approximate/Exact Probabilistic Inference
  • Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining for Uncertain

Paper Submission

The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted or published elsewhere work. Papers should be submitted electronically (through the ICTAI web site) in PDF format and should be conformed to IEEE specifications (single-space, double-column, 10-point font size, up to 8 pages).

ICTAI receives only full papers (up to 8 pages long). The Review Committee makes the decision of categorization of these papers based on their merit. More specifically, the categories are:

  1. Full papers based on their quality after review (8 pages long with regular registration plus one extra page, if needed, with extra cost $100 according to IEEE CS policy).
  2. Short papers based on their merit after review (5 pages long with regular registration PLUS ONE extra page, if needed, with extra cost $100 according to IEEE CS policy).

Full papers and short papers will be published in the same proceedings and will be presented in the sessions in a mixed order.

Paper Presentation

Each accepted paper should be presented by one of the authors and accompanied by at least one full registration fee payment, to guarantee publication in the proceedings. All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of ICTAI 2021 that will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.

Special Issues

Extended versions of the best papers of the conference will be invited for publication in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI Indexed).

Contact ICTAI 2021

General Chair

Maria Virvou
University of Piraeus, Greece
[email protected]

ICTAI Steering Committee Chair

Nikolaos G. Bourbakis
Center of Assistive Research Technologies – Wright State University, USA
[email protected]

Program Chair

George A. Tsihrintzis
University of Piraeus, Greece
[email protected]

Program Chair

Efthimios Alepis
University of Piraeus, Greece
[email protected]