The Information Processing & Management Conference 2026 (IP&MC2026), 30 October-1 November 2026, Wuhan, China, Wuhan, China, will be held under the theme ‘Documents to Dialog and Retrieval to Reasoning: Reimagining the Computational Information Sciences in the Age of AI and Large Language Models’.

The conference brings together the future and foundation of the computational information sciences by uniting scholars and practitioners across information retrieval, knowledge organization, data management, intelligent systems, information processing, human-AI interaction, and related domains.

Conference tracks

Thematic Tracks for IP&MC2026, which will also be special issues in Information Processing & Management (IPM) or Data and Information Management (DIM) (please see the journal information listed after each track title) are:

Academic Search and Learning with GenAI: New Agency, New Behavior, and New Ecology (IP&M)
AI Decision Support Based on Multimodal Information (DIM)
Data Elements and Data-intelligence Empowerment (IP&M)
Data-centric AI for Social Science (IP&M)
Explainable and Responsible Information Systems for Social Good (DIM)
FIRM: Foundation-model Integrity and Ranking Methods in the LLM Era
From Posts to Dialogues: Conversational and Contextual AI for Mental Health (IP&M)
Generative AI for Health and Well-being: Information Processing, Psychological Mechanisms, and Behavioral Impact (DIM)
Generative AI for Knowledge Work: Trust, Productivity, and Information Quality (DIM)
Human Reasoning and Large Language Models: Alignments and Divergences (IP&M)
The Algorithmic Anomie and its Social Consequences in a Society with AI-driven Systems (DIM)
Trustworthy Content Governance and Safe Generative AI in the Age of Large Language Models (IP&M)
Poster Presentation only

Please submit your papers and posters using the abstract submission system: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirect=/stages/80479/submitter

Manuscript submission deadline: 30 June 2026