Call for Scientific Papers
The 2026 Pan-African Artificial Intelligence and Smart Systems (PA-AI&SS) conference organizing committee is now encouraging scientists, academics, innovators, and professionals to submit original, unpublished scientific papers that are not currently under review elsewhere. Submissions will be considered in all technical tracks described below. Successful submissions will be peer-reviewed and published in the Springer Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics, and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) book series. Topics of interest in this conference include but not limited to those in the following five tracks:
Track 1: AI Foundation and Core Topics:
This track focuses on the theoretical foundations of AI and smart systems.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Multi-agent systems (MAS) and autonomous systems
- Agentic systems
- Multimodal generative models
- Ant colony optimization and swarm intelligence
- Artificial immune systems
- Genetic algorithms and programming
- Computational neuro-fuzzy intelligence
- Large language models for translation
- Coding assistants and vibe coding
- Edge AI and Tiny ML
- Evaluation, observability, and interpretability
- Generative AI
- ML Ops and platforms
- Multimodal AI
- Quantum machine learning (Q-ML)
- Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms
- Cognitive intelligence and capsule networks
- Evolutionary computing and bio-inspired AI
- Graph neural networks and reinforcement learning
- Generative adversarial training for sparse/noisy datasets Multi-agent and bio-inspired intelligence for complex systems
- Meta-learning
- Applied GenAI and OpenAI applications
- Other related topics.
Track 2: Embedded AI, smart edge computing, and smart IOT.
This track This track focuses on key components of smart systems that support
automation, local intelligence, and reduced cloud usage. Topics include:
Nanosensors for sports
- Internet of Nano Things (IoNT) and biosensors
- AI-enabled edge computing
- Intelligent software agents
- Internet of Personal Things (IoPT)
- Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT)
- 6G communications enabling machine-to-machine communication
- Smart home devices
- On-device AI for wearables and personal coaching
- Autonomous edge computing
- Aquatic IoT and sensing for aquaculture
- Body IoT (BIoT)
- Autonomic computing
- Surveys of IoT hardware and operating systems
- AI-enabled cyber-physical systems.
Track: 3 AI Social Science (ethics, explainability, thrust, regulation):
Submissions in this track should focus on the interaction between artificial
intelligence and human society, examining AI's societal impacts while utilizing it as a research tool. These include:
- AI legal, regulatory, policy, and standards issues
- Data sovereignty and cross-border data issues
- AI performance and trust verification
- AI ethics and risk mitigation
- Bias, transparency, and fairness
- Transparency and explainability of AI systems
- AI for inclusivity: Accessibility and impact on Persons with Disabilities
- (PWDs)
- Ethical AI for diverse and marginalized communities
- AI and the digital gap or divide.
Track 4: Application of AI and Smart Systems
This track focuses on real‑world applications of AI, IoT, and smart systems:
- smart Aquatic environment monitoring
- AI applications in aquaculture and agriculture
- AI application in medicine
- Smart IoT in resource management
- AI innovations in tourism
- AI in sports and entertainment
- AI applications in climate modelling
- AI applications in hurricane predictions and disasters management. ,
- AI in entertainment (music, dance, theatre, arts)
- Large Language Models for African languages
- AI-enabled virtual reality applications
- AI agents in healthcare, security, infrastructure
- Generative applications.
- Other AI applications of interest to the Caribbean regions
- Other AI applications of interest to the African regions
Track : 5 African Natural Language Processing (ANLP)
This track focuses on Natural Languages Processing (NLP) applied to African native languages. Selected papers in tract will be presented during the ANL symposium being held in conjunction with the main conference. The topics include the following:
- Datasets creation for low-resource NLP techniques
- Alternative approaches to low-resource languages
- Speech recognition, text-to-speech, and spoken language understanding
- Phonology, morphology, word segmentation, and tokenization
- Cross-lingual transfer learning between difference African languages
- Code-switching and code-mixing African languages and foreign and African languages
- Classification of African languages based on common roots scale ANLP
- Speech and text multimodal systems
- Hieroglyphs and their impacts on African natural language processing
- Hieroglyphs considered an African language
- Application of NLP techniques to African-signed language
- Survey of African languages written African languages with an Alphabe
Submission of paper Guidelines:
Using the EasyChair system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paaiss2026
If you do not already have an EasyChair account, you must first create one, as indicated on the page that is displayed. The EasyChair system will then email you your password, which you will use to access the system and finalize your paper submission.
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