BICA 2026 Submission Instructions for Authors

First-Round submission of papers and abstracts to BICA 2026 is now open and will end on April 15, 2026, 23:59 AOE. Submission link is here. 

Publication options are: 

  1. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (a Scopus/EI Q4 Springer journal)
  2. Cognitive Systems Research (a WoS/Scopus Q2 Elsevier journal)
  3. None.
Acceptance options are (decided by PC):
  1. CSR or Springer, with a presentation.
  2. Springer only, with a presentation.
  3. Presentation only.

Presentation options are: an offline talk in Merida, a zoom talk (live), or an e-poster. Pre-recorded talks can only be accepted as e-posters. Unless the only acceptable for you publication option is Cognitive Systems Research, you must prepare your submission based on the Springer template and instructions found at

BICA_2026_templates+instructions.zip

Springer papers can be from 5 to 25 pages long, with any number of co-authors. There are no templates and no page limit for CSR-intended papers: use the simplest one-column layout.

Each author can submit any number of papers; however, each paper must be covered by a separate registration. Contributions must be original and scientifically sound. Position papers can be accepted for Springer. Any topic in AI, Cognitive Modeling, Brain Sciences, and related areas is acceptable (see the CFP tab). The focus of the conference is on the BICA Challenge.

Examples of BICA Conference Proceedings of previous years can be found at Examples