SCOPE
This special session addresses the rapidly evolving field of AI agents, with a focus on their theoretical underpinnings, architectural design, and practical applications. Situated within the broader IJCCI scope of computational intelligence — encompassing fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, neural networks, and explainable AI — the session explores how these paradigms converge in modern autonomous and semi-autonomous agent frameworks.
The session aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among researchers working on agent-based systems, large language model (LLM)-driven agents, and multi-agent coordination, with an emphasis on real-world deployability, interpretability, and safety.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- LLM-based Agent Architectures and Autonomous Decision-making
- Multi-agent Systems: Coordination, Negotiation, and Emergent Behavior
- Planning, Reasoning, and Tool use in AI Agents
- Memory, Context Management, and Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG)
- Neuro-Evolutionary and Fuzzy Approaches to Agent Design
- Explainable and Trustworthy AI Agents (XAI for Agents)
- AI Agents in Healthcare, Robotics, Education, and Smart Systems
- Benchmarking, Evaluation Frameworks, and Safety of Agentic AI
- Human-agent Interaction, Collaboration, and Ethical Considerations

IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Submission: July 31, 2026
- Authors Notification: September 9, 2026
- Camera Ready and Registration: September 18, 2026

PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.

PUBLICATIONS
After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference - and abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, INSPEC, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus and zbMATH. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.

SECRETARIAT CONTACTS
IJCCI Special Sessions - AIPAA 2026
e-mail: ijcci.secretariat@insticc.org