Participation Requirements for the Workshop “Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity“:

1. The paper must contain more than 9 A4 pages formatted according to the CEUR-WS ODT template (LibreOffice) or  LaTeX Template. Please note: To properly use the ODT template, Libertinus font family must be installed! We do not recommend using Word or Microsoft365, as they typically produce PDF files that do not meet
   the required standards.Author submission instructions:
   https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/docs/help/author/author-submission-form.html
2. Submissions that do not match the topic of the workshop will be rejected.
3. Use the following link to submit your paper: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SMICS2026. When completing the submission form, select the SUBJECT AREA “Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity” for the current workshop.
4. Signed authors agreement has to be submitted together with paper.
   Author agreement variants:
   1. AUTHOR-AGREEMENT (NTP): Authors shall use this form if they included no copyrighted third party material in their paper text (or accompanying sources, datasets), and no material in the paper was produced with the help of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools including tools based on large language models (LLM). 
   2. AUTHOR-AGREEMENT (TP): Authors shall use this form if they did include copyrighted third party material in their paper or accompanying material. They must then also attach a copy of the permission by the third party to use this material in the signed author agreement! Authors shall use this form if they did include copyrighted third party material in their paper or in accompanying material. Authors must append a copy of the permission(s) by the third parties to use this material to the signed author agreement!
5. The first author must have at least 5 papers indexed on the DBLP platform.
6. The submitted papers have to be written in English. Please ensure that the paper and agreement file names are correctly formatted. The following three files must be submitted:
   1. {First Author Surname}_AIC_ paper1.pdf; 
   2. {First Author Surname}_AIC_paper1.odt (LibreOffice) or {First Author Surname}_AIC_paper1.zip (LaTeX); 
   3. {First Author Surname}_AIC_Author-Agreement-paper1.pdf. 
7. The workshop proceedings are planned to be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Please ensure that your paper complies with the workshop formatting and submission requirements.

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

GOOD LUCK WITH FORMATTING! WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR PAPERS!

For more information, contact ai_smics@lnu.edu.ua or call: +38(032) 239 46 54, +38(032) 239 41 57, +38(098) 223 97 23.