The journal track offers the authors of papers recently accepted for publication by one of the two leading discipline-wide journals in AI, Artificial Intelligence (AIJ) and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), a presentation slot at ECAI without an additional reviewing or selection process. A paper is eligible as long as no part of it has previously been presented at a conference with archival proceedings. The intention is to encourage a “journal-first” publication strategy.
Authors of papers accepted by AIJ or JAIR during the relevant time window will be contacted by the journal editors. Usually this happens at the time of acceptance by the journal, but it may also happen at a later time point. Authors then have the option to choose between presentation slots at the next available editions of AAAI, IJCAI, and ECAI. Each paper in the journal track will be allocated an oral presentation slot during the main conference, in a session with papers on related topics accepted to the main track.
Participation in the journal track does not result in an additional publication, but the original journal abstract will be included in the ECAI proceedings. At least one author of each paper accepted to the journal track must register for the conference by the early registration deadline.