Call for Papers
ICCI is an annual international cognitive intelligence conference, which showcases state-of-the-art R&D activities in cognitive intelligence systems and their industrial and engineering applications. It provides a forum for technical presentations and discussions among cognitive intelligence researchers, developers and users from academia, business and industry.

The 2025 ICCI will be held in Hong Kong on July 4-6, 2025. Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the world. Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages, the territory is now one of the world’s most significant financial centres and commercial ports. Hong Kong is the world’s third-ranked global financial centre (behind New York City and London), ninth-largest exporter, and eighth-largest importer. Its currency, the Hong Kong dollar, is the ninth most traded currency in the world. Home to the seventh-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, Hong Kong has the largest number of ultra high-net-worth individuals.

For up-to-date information on ICCI2025, visit its homepage: https://aaci.org.hk/icci2025/

TOPICS of interest must be highly relevant to cognitive intelligence and its applications for building practical systems, including but not limited to:

Neural network theory, neuro-system integration and engineering applications

Deep learning-driven pattern recognition, computer vision and its industrial applications

Computational intelligence, nature-inspired optimizers, and their engineering applications

Concept-cognitive learning, granular computing theory and its application

Neural computing-driven edge intelligence, machine learning for communication systems, pervasive computing and intelligent transportation systems

Cognitive radio, cognitive-driven information theory and its applications

Rough set, fuzzy set, cognitive computing theory and its applications

Three decision models, analysis and application

Structural and functional connectomics in brain disorders

Multimodal learning and large language models (LLMs) for representation, fusion and applications

Natural language processing, knowledge graphs, recommender systems, and their applications

Smart healthcare, manufacturing, city, transportation, ocean, and other artificial intelligence innovation applications


Submission Instructions
Authors should submit papers reporting original work that are currently not under review or published elsewhere. Accepted full papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions for full papers must be no less than 12 pages and not exceed 15 pages (including citations) in CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science) format. We encourage authors to cite related work comprehensively, and when citing conference papers please also consider to cite their extended journal versions if applicable.

ICCI 2025 will employ double-blind reviewing process, every research paper submitted to ICCI 2025 will undergo a “double-blind” reviewing process: the PC members and referees who review the paper will not know the identity of the authors. To ensure anonymity of authorship, authors must prepare their manuscript as follows:

Author’s names and affiliations must not appear on the title page or elsewhere in the paper.
Funding sources must not be acknowledged on the title page or elsewhere in the paper.
Research group members, or other colleagues or collaborators, must not be acknowledged anywhere in the paper.
Source file naming must also be done with care, to avoid identifying the author’s names in the paper’s associated metadata. For example, if your name is Jane Smith and you submit a PDF file generated from a .dvi file called Jane-Smith.dvi, your authorship could be inferred by looking into the PDF file.
It is the responsibility of authors to do their very best to preserve anonymity. Papers that do not follow the guidelines here, or otherwise potentially reveal the identity of the authors, are subject to immediate rejection. Because of the double blind review policy, the submission of an extended version of a short paper which has published elsewhere is strongly discouraged in ICCI 2025.

Before submission, please read the instructions for authors CAREFULLY (find it here).

Please use one of the following templates for the CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science) format:

LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)
Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip)
Microsoft Word 2003 Proceedings Templates (zip)
Any submitted paper violating the length, file type, or formatting requirements will be rejected without review. For any problems with the submission system, please contact the PC co-chairs directly.

Submission URL: Easychair for ICCI 2025
Authors must select one of above-mentioned technical tracks(/topics) to submit their papers in easychair system. Submitted papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process, coordinated by the International Program Committee.

The Program Chairs are soliciting contributed technical papers for presentation at the Conference and publication in the Conference Proceedings by Springer Verlag in the CCIS. All accepted regular papers will be submitted to Springer Verlag for EI and ISTP indexing. Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit their extended technical papers to several SCI journals for a possible publication after ordinary review process, such as IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics (pending, impact factor: 4.3), Mathematics (impact factor: 2.4), Industrial Artificial Intelligence (a NEW Springer Journal), etc.

IMPORTANT DATES
March 1, 2025 (11:59 pm, Pacific Standard Time): Early-round Paper Submission Due
March 31, 2025: Early-round Acceptance Notification
April 7, 2025: Second-round Paper Submission Due
May 14, 2025: Second-round Acceptance Notification
July 4-6, 2025: Conference Dates