Submission guidelines
SUM 2026 solicits papers in the following three categories:
- Long papers: technical papers reporting original research or survey papers
- Short papers: papers reporting promising work-in-progress, system descriptions, position papers on controversial issues, or survey papers providing a synthesis of some current research trends
- Extended abstracts of recently published work in a relevant journal or top-tier conference
Accepted long and short papers, which will undergo a single-blind peer review, will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Authors of an accepted long or short paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and one author is expected to give a presentation at the conference. Authors of accepted abstracts will be expected to present their work during the conference, but the extended abstracts will not be published in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings (they will be made available in a separate booklet).
Regular research papers should be at most 14 pages (including references, figures, and tables). Short papers should be between 4 and 7 pages. Extended abstracts should be at most 2 pages and should reference the originally published work. For the final version of the accepted paper, it is possible to use an additional page to address the reviewers’ comments. Short and long papers may extend to 8 and 15 pages, respectively (including references).
Authors should consult Springer’s Instructions for Authors of Proceedings and use either the LaTeX or the Word templates provided on the authors’ page, for the preparation of their papers.
If any of the authors contributing to SUM 2026 are interested in Open Access (which applies to the entire volume) or Open Choice (which applies to individual papers), please refer to Springer webpage for prices and additional information. It would require the invoicing address and the CC-BY licence-to-publish agreement at least three weeks before the deadline for the files.
Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through ChairingTool.
https://chairingtool.com/conferences/sum2026/main-track?role=author
Papers not respecting the formatting instructions or page limits may be rejected without review.
COPYRIGHT: The agreement available here
should be completed and signed by the corresponding author of each accepted paper, on behalf of all of the authors of that paper.
Except for extended abstracts, submissions must be unpublished and must not be under submission elsewhere. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
Previous SUM proceedings on SpringerLink available at https://link.springer.com/conference/sum
