NEW - Extended Abstract: An extended abstract can be submitted to draw attention to a preliminary idea, pose a novel question, or highlight initial results that are not yet significant enough for a full workshop paper. We encourage authors with work matching this description to submit a brief extended abstract!
Important Dates
Submission Extended - May 8, 2026 May 15, 2026
Acceptance notification - June 8, 2026
Workshop - TBA (August 15/16/17 2026)
Submission Details
Paper submission on ChairingTool: https://chairingtool.com/conferences/scala2026/main-track
Format: Authors should use the IJCAI 2026 format found in the Authors Kit: https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit
Length: Extended abstracts should be up to 3 pages long with additional pages for references. Full papers should be up to 7 pages long with additional pages for references, although shorter papers are also welcome. Appendices may be included in additional pages at the end of a full paper. However, authors are encouraged to include all significant components of their work in the main paper. Reviewers are not obligated to consider supplemental content.
Multiple Submissions: Authors are allowed to submit multiple papers to SCaLA. If excessive submissions from an author are received we may ask the author to remove some of their submissions.
Proceedings: We will post papers online but our workshop is non-archival and we will not publish formal proceedings. As such, authors are encouraged to submit work that is also being considered for submission at subsequent venues.
Anonymity: We encourage authors to anonymize their submissions but papers may be submitted without anonymization. Reviewer identities will remain anonymous.
Re-submissions: Submissions may contain work published in, approximately, the past year (e.g., IJCAI 2025, NeurIPS 2025, AAAI 2026, AAMAS 2026). If authors want to submit work that has previously been published, we kindly ask they do so non-anonymously and clearly indicate when and where the work was published.
Contact
If you have any questions that are not answered here please contact Ben Armstrong or Saar Cohen.