Author's Kit

Eligibility

Paper submission must be in English. All papers will be double-blind reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, relevance to PAKDD, originality, significance, and presentation quality. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. The author list and order cannot be changed after the paper is submitted. Papers that do not comply with the Submission Policy will be rejected without review.

Each submitted paper must include an abstract up to 200 words. Each submitted paper to the main track or the special track on large language models in data science must be no longer than 12 pages (including references, appendices, etc.). The survey track submission can have up to 18 pages in total: 15 pages for the main text of the paper and up to 3 additional pages for references. Authors must use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript submission guidelines and formatting template (see below) for their submissions. All papers must be submitted electronically through the PAKDD's CMT paper submission system in PDF format only.

PAKDD 2026 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for, has already been published in, or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another venue with formally published proceedings. Authors are also required not to submit their papers to other venues with formal publication during the PAKDD 2026 review period. Papers on arXiv do not violate this rule as long as the submitted paper does not cite them.

Springer will publish the proceedings of the conference as a volume of the LNAI series. Submitting a paper to the conference means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will complete the regular registration and attend the conference to present the paper. For no-show authors, their papers will not be included in the proceedings.

The use of generative AI models (e.g., large language models (LLMs)) must be explicitly disclosed and explained in the submission form. Moreover, such tools do not qualify as authors for papers published in PAKDD and may only be employed for grammatical error correction. If generative AI is used at any stage of the paper-writing process, the authors should assume full responsibility for all content, including checking for plagiarism and correctness of the entire submission.

Each listed author must have made a substantial contribution to the research and/or paper writing and must take full responsibility for the paper's entire content.

Double-Blind Review

Paper submission must adhere to the double-blind review policy. Submissions must remove all details identifying the author(s) from the original manuscript, and the author(s) should refer to their prior work in the third person and include all relevant citations.

Formatting Template

Formatting Template: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

All the manuscripts must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the above format. Usage of other formats may lead to disqualification of paper for the conference.

Submission Site

https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/pakdd2026

How to Submit: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/docs/help/author/author-submission-form.html

Note: 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.

Copyright policy of our publisher

For authors of PAKDD 2026 papers who want to upload in arxiv, please pay particular attention to the copyright policy of Springer as listed in https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-science/policies/accepted-manuscript-terms

Contact Information

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at pakdd2026.pc@gmail.com