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Call for Papers

HC@AIxIA + HYDRA 2025

International Joint Workshop of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare (HC@AIxIA) and HYbrid Models for Coupling Deductive and Inductive ReAsoning (HYDRA)

Bologna, Italy, 25-26 October 2025

IMPORTANT DATES (tentative)

1st Paper submission cut-off date: 15 June 2025
2nd Paper submission cut-off date: 20 July 2025
3rd Paper submission cut-off date: 05 September 2025
Notification of acceptance: 05 October 2025
Camera-Ready copy due: 15 October 2025
Workshop starts: 25-26 October 2025 (see https://ecai2025.org/workshops/)

NOTE: notifications will be released continuously, as soon as possible after submissions, and no later than the subsequent cut-off date. The date for the notification of acceptance reported above refers to the 3rd cut-off submissions, and in any case for all submissions. See details below.

CALL for PAPERS

The workshop welcomes original research contributions, summaries of recent work, and work-in-progress studies on frameworks, applications, and methodologies for combining deductive and inductive approaches. It invites a wide multidisciplinary spectrum of researchers, industrialists, entrepreneurs, and healthcare practitioners: submissions are welcome from a range of stakeholders, including Computer scientists, health informaticians, and emergency medicine experts; Public health experts, epidemiologists, clinicians, etc.; National and international public health agencies; Epidemic intelligence systems providers; NGOs and Agencies; Industry and startups. Collaborations across disciplines will bridge the gap between theory and practice and foster actionable AI-driven solutions across diverse domains.

Possible topics of interest are, but are NOT limited to:

Hybrid inductive-deductive approaches to AI
Integration of logic programming paradigms (e.g., ASP, CSP) in inductive scenarios
New methods for combining deductive and inductive systems
Knowledge representation and reasoning to enhance inductive processes
Evaluation of Hybrid Reasoning Methods
Ethical and social implications of hybrid AI systems
Machine learning and statistical methods for clinical decision support
Knowledge representation and formal reasoning in healthcare
Probabilistic graphical models and causal networks for clinical decision-making
Personalized medicine and computer-interpretable clinical guidelines
Ethical and legal considerations in medical AI
Machine learning methods, data mining, and statistical methods for clinical decision support
Probabilistic graphical models for clinical decision-making and causal networks
Learning, representation, and reasoning with time
Methods for diagnosis, treatment selection, treatment planning, and prognosis
Monitoring patients in healthcare
Ontologies and medical vocabularies
Support for natural language generation/understanding in connection with electronic patient records
Deductive and Inductive systems in eHealth scenarios
Tools for supporting authoring, execution, and maintenance of clinical protocols and guidelines
Tools for building and deployment of clinical decision-support systems.

Submission Guidelines and Types of Submissions

Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the submission system here: https://chairingtool.com/conferences/aixia-hydra25/main-track?role=author.

The workshop welcomes both full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are suggested for presenting work in progress, extended abstracts, software prototypes, or general overviews of research projects. The workshop also welcomes position and discussion papers.
All submissions must be in PDF format, written in English, and formatted according to the LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Full papers should not exceed 13 pages (including bibliography); short, position, and discussion papers should not exceed 6 pages (including bibliography). To ease the reviewing process, the authors of full papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation).

Special Section for Summer‑School Alumni

Within the single main track, a dedicated section is reserved for papers authored by participants of the 1st AIxIA Summer School on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare (Trento, Italy, July 2025). To highlight the impact of the School, we strongly encourage alumni to act as first (main) authors. Submissions will follow the same review process as standard papers but will be grouped together in the programme and proceedings.

Student Contributions and Best Student Paper Award

The workshop actively encourages submissions with students as authors, especially when a student is the first (main) contributor. To recognise outstanding work, the PC Chairs will confer a Best Student Paper Award, which includes a monetary prize sponsored by AIxIA and the HC@AIxIA Working Group.

Contributions and Registration

For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to:

register to ECAI 2025 (registration to workshop only is enough - see official website)
attend the HC@AIxIA+HYDRA 2025 workshop and present the paper (each attendee should not present more than 2 works at the workshop).

The event is organized by ECAI.

Submission Platform and Rolling‑Submission Model

We use ChairingTool (beta) for the entire workflow. Please note that at the time of submission (i.e., June-September 2025) the software is still under active development. Occasional glitches have occurred, and may re‑appear. The Chairs sincerely apologize for that; they are in close contact with the developers, who are very responsive. With the community’s cooperation we expect a smooth process to the end. In order to facilitate authors' work, we adopt a rolling submission model. While submission management system is open, authors are invited to submit their contributions at any time before the deadlines. The review process will be continuous, and authors will receive feedback as soon as possible, so to spread out the review work for the program committee and give authors feedback more quickly. This flexible submission timeline encourages early submissions. Cut-off dates are set to ensure that all contributions are reviewed and accepted in time for the workshop. Although authors are encouraged to submit their works as early as possible to benefit from this continuous review process, submissions are still welcome until the last cut-off date.

Transparent Reviews & Discussion

As soon as a review is filed, it becomes immediately visible to the authors. At any point, authors and reviewers can open a discussion thread inside the system. Both authors and reviewers are supposed to use discussion threads rather than e‑mail whenever possible to keep the process traceable. When the PCs judge that reviews (plus any discussion) are sufficient, one of three decisions is issued:

Accept: paper is accepted as is.
Reject (final): paper is declined with no further appeal.
Revision: a revised version is requested (occasionally preceded by a short rebuttal). Resubmit through the revision form.

The cycle repeats until the paper is accepted, rejected, or withdrawn.

Forms & Version Tracking

Each submission has two forms:

Initial Submission Form, with standard mandatory fields.
Revision Form: all fields optional; it is (only if and when needed) used to upload new versions of a paper, so to track document changes between versions. The system automatically links versions and keeps a full history.

Oversight, Support and Expected Benefits

Every paper is monitored by its reviewers and the PC chairs. Chairs may step in at any time to resolve issues or clarify policy. If needed, contact the chairs via the platform (preferred) or by e‑mail.

This workflow aims to surface the best work, reduce unjustified rejections and improve paper quality before publication. We rely on everyone’s good faith to prevent misuse of the system. We genuinely believe that the community can handle this process and that it will yield clear benefits for authors, reviewers, and the field at large. Please contact us at hcaixia-hydra@googlegroups.com for any issue.

Proceedings and post-Proceeding (journal)

All accepted original contributions (both full and short) will be part of the proceedings of the workshop, and will be published in the CCIS book series by Springer.
Non-original communications will be given visibility on the workshop website including a link to the original publication, if already published.
If a sufficient number of high-quality papers are accepted, Chairs will also consider the publication of a selection on an international journal special issue (TBD).

Working Group Meeting

All authors of accepted papers are invited to participate in the annual meeting of the AI and Healthcare Working Group of AIxIA, which will be held right after the workshop.

Venue

The workshop will be held in Bologna, Italy; the event is organized by ECAI 2025.

Contacts

All questions about submissions should be emailed to hcaixia-hydra@googlegroups.com.

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