Short Papers
Call for Short Papers
International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’26)
June 29 – July 3, 2026, Coimbra, Portugal
Submissions through: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=iccc26
Computational Creativity (CC) is a field rooted in scientific disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Engineering, Design, Psychology, and Philosophy, each of which explores the potential for computers to be creative – either in partnership with humans or as autonomous creators in their own right.
The 17th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’26) welcomes short papers on different aspects of CC, such as principles, theories and models of creativity in computers, frameworks that offer conceptual insight and computational rigor for describing and analysing machine (and human) creativity, systems that exhibit creative autonomy or act as creative partners for human creators, methodologies for building or evaluating CC systems, as well as approaches to teaching CC in schools and universities or to promoting societal uptake of CC as a field and as a technology.
Original research contributions are solicited in all areas related to Computational Creativity research and practice. The onus is on authors to argue and/or explicitly demonstrate the relevance of their work to the topic of computational creativity. While the study of generative AI models is both welcomed and encouraged, such models and their application must be properly situated in the CC literature.
Short papers are intended to share new directions and ideas, spark debate, and enrich the conference and program, without the same evaluation and rigor requirements of long papers. They are not merely long papers with fewer pages. To this end, different review criteria will be applied to long and short papers.
Important Dates
- Submissions due: Apr 24, 2026 Apr 27, 2026
- Acceptance notification: May 11, 2026 May 12, 2026
- Camera-ready copies due: May 27, 2026
- Conference: June 29–July 3, 2026
All deadlines given are 23:59 anywhere on Earth time.
Themes and Topics
The ICCC call for short papers invites research on the same topics as the main call. See Full Papers for more information.
Difference between long and short papers: Short papers are intended to share new directions and ideas, spark debate, and enrich the conference and program, without the same evaluation and rigor requirements of long papers. They are not merely long papers with fewer pages. To this end, different review criteria will be applied to long and short papers.
A note on generative AI models: while the study of generative AI models is both welcomed and encouraged, such models and their application must be properly situated in the CC literature and evaluated according to acceptable practices in the field. Papers that fail to do this are unlikely to be reviewed favorably.
Paper Types
Short papers offer concise treatments of work and ideas that are better suited to this concentrated format. We anticipate submissions in the short paper category along any or all of the following lines:
- Debate Sparks: The short paper format is ideal for provocations that get the community talking. Is there some aspect of CC that you feel deserves more attention from the community?
- System Demonstrations: Submissions for the show-and-tell session can be described in a short paper.
- CC Translations: Researchers in other fields often do work that we in CC would see as related to our own. We invite those researchers to present such work at ICCC, via a Translations short paper. This is submitted as an extended abstract that summarizes your work in another field.
- Nuggets and Gems: short papers on any topic of CC for which one might consider a long paper. In this case, the work will be succinct enough, or at an early enough stage, to warrant the short paper format.
- Late Breaking Results: The results of your work (empirical or system-related) may not have been ready for a long-paper submission. Consider submitting that work now in a short-paper format.
- CC Bridges: Research communities often retreat into silos and fail to reach out beyond their own borders. A bridging short paper explicitly seeks to create bridges to another field, to foster interdisciplinarity. Unlike a Translations paper, a Bridge is written by a CC researcher wishing to introduce new ideas from beyond our conventional horizons.
- Pilot Studies: Have you conducted an initial foray into a research topic that deserves attention? Plant a flag for your research with a short paper.
- Grand Challenges: Do you have a proposal for a task that can bring large parts of the community together in a productive collaborative effort?
- Meta-Perspectives: Do your experience of the CC community (such as our conferences, workshops, reviewing processes, etc.) move you to write an analysis of how we might do things differently and better?
- Field and event reports: Have you taken your CC research into the field, where practitioners and/or commercial partners have explored its uses first hand? Consider writing a short paper about your experiences. Have you organized a CC-flavored event – a workshop, a tutorial, a seminar series, a postgraduate course, a public debate, an exhibition of CC outputs, or related outreach activity? Consider writing a short paper on your experience and that of your audience.
Submission, Paper, and Presentation Format
- Short papers can be at most 4 pages long, with one additional page allowed exclusively for references and at most 4 additional pages for appendices containing auxiliary information.
- Papers must be formatted according to the ICCC style. You can download the ICCC LaTeX template [here] and Word template [here].
- Papers must be anonymized.
- Papers are submitted as pdf files through the EasyChair platform: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=iccc26.
- To be included in the proceedings, each paper must be presented in person at the conference by one of the authors, who also will have to register to the conference.
- The program committee will decide, for each submission, the most appropriate format for presentation: talk, poster, or system demonstration.
The program chairs reserve the right to reject papers without peer review if they violate any of the above instructions, if they are outside the scope of the conference, or if they do not comply with scientific norms.
All authors of accepted papers can opt to also show a demo of their system or prototype during the conference. You will be asked if you are interested in this option during the submission process.
