Abstract and Paper Submission Instructions
If you are presenting a paper at an AAAI-sponsored or affiliated event, AAAI will maintain an electronic copy of your abstract and an electronic copy of your paper as well. You must therefore submit an electronic paper and abstract to AAAI. Please follow the instructions provided below, prepare and proofread your paper and abstract; then select the appropriate link from the list below. (If your event is not listed and you think it should be, please inform the webmaster (choose webmaster in the contact form’s pull-down list.) The link will take you to an upload page where you will submit both your abstract and paper at the same time.
Please read these and related instructions first before submitting your paper. You MUST comply with all the formatting requirements on the Author Submission Page. Failure to do so will result in the return of your paper and its possible exclusion from the proceedings.
Specific Event Instructions
Please choose your event from the list below (if it is not there, please submit a message to the webmaster):
- AAAI Conference (includes all subevents except workshops)
- AAAI Workshops
- AAAI Fall Symposium Series
- AAAI Spring Symposium Series
- AIIDE Conference
- IAAI Conference
- ICAPS Conference
- ICWSM Conference
- FLAIRS Conference
- KR Conference
- IJCAI Conference
How to Submit Electronic Abstract, Title, and Author Information
To create an accurate table of contents, and provide electronic access to abstracts, you must submit (using the submission form for your event) an accurate and complete title of your paper, including a list of all the authors, and the final abstract. This information will be used to generate the table of contents for the publication and electronic catalogs of AAAI material. It must be submitted no later than the due date for your camera-ready copy. Please note: Even if you submitted your abstract to AAAI as part of AAAI's paper review process, you must resubmit all the information including the abstract.
Authors of extended abstracts who did not include abstract on their paper should create a two or three sentence description of their paper.
When submitting your abstract please obey the following rules:
- Use plain ASCII characters only (don't copy Word "doc" files without first changing the file to a text-only file without smart quotes, accents, etc.).
- Use HTML for any special characters like accents
- Change LaTeX codes to HTML, and convert LaTeX quotes to standard quotes, etc.
- Omit references and citations
Paper Submission Guidelines
The instructions for submission are different for 2008. Please read carefully.
- READ THE AUTHORS INSTRUCTIONS and the FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS FIRST.
- Check every page of your paper on screen before submitting it (there is no excuse for submitting a paper, for example, that doesn't have a top margin on page 2, or is missing graphics)
- Use the CURRENT AAAI style file or template (all papers, including symposia and workshop papers, must be formatted in AAAI two-column style.
At the same time that you submit your abstract, you will also be asked to send us a compressed archive containing all your electronic source and a PDF version of your paper.
You MUST read the formatting instructions before preparing your paper!
Naming Your Electronic Archive
To avoid possible erasure of your file on our site, you should include the following elements in the name of your file:
- Event Abbreviation (the upload form will guide you on the proper abbreviation)
- First Author's Surname (this MUST be the name of the author who appears first on the paper—even if that is not you; don't include more than one author)
- First Author's First Initial
- The paper number (if one was assigned — this number is only applicable if paper numbers were assigned during the selection process; it does not apply to Symposia or Workshops) (if you don't have a paper number, but have a common surname, you might want to add a four digit number [your choice])
- File type extension (.tar, .gz, .sit, etc.)
Do not name ANY of your files or your archive with the name of the event, or "paper" or "aaai" or something else generic! (If you do, it will be automatically deleted.)
If you submitting a paper but are not the first-named author, do not use your name—use the first-named author's name instead.
Compression
Please keep your file under 9 MB in size if possible. (Files larger than 9 MB may not be accepted at the ftp site.)
Submitting Your Electronic Archive to AAAI
You may submit your file to AAAI by using the Abstract and Paper Submission form. (The links to the appropriate form can be found at the top of this page.)
We're sorry, we cannot accept e-mail submissions.