Call for Papers: Main Track
We solicit papers presenting novel results on the principles of KR, which clearly contribute to the formal foundations of the field or show the applicability of KR techniques to implemented or implementable systems. We welcome papers from other areas that demonstrate clear use of, or contributions to, the principles or practice of KR. We also encourage "reports from the field" of applications, experiments, developments, and tests.
Important Dates
The deadlines are AoE - Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12).
- Submission of title and abstract: February 8, 2026
- Paper submission deadline: February 13, 2026
- Author response period: March 24-28, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: April 13, 2026
- Camera-ready due: May 3, 2026
- Conference dates: July 20-23, 2026
Topics of Interest
Typical topics of interest include the following, but the list is not exhaustive. The conference welcomes all topics concerned with the explicit representation or management of knowledge, and with the automated inference on the basis of such knowledge.
- Argumentation
- Belief change
- Common-sense reasoning
- Computational aspects of knowledge representation
- Description logics
- Ethical considerations in KR
- Explanation, abduction and diagnosis
- Geometric, spatial, and temporal reasoning
- Inconsistency- and exception-tolerant reasoning
- Knowledge acquisition
- Knowledge compilation, automated reasoning, satisfiability and model counting
- Knowledge representation languages
- Logic programming, answer set programming
- Model learning for diagnosis and planning
- Modeling and reasoning about preferences
- Modeling constraints and constraint solving
- Multi- and order-sorted representations and reasoning
- Non-monotonic logics
- Ontologies and knowledge-enriched data management
- Philosophical foundations of KR
- Qualitative reasoning
- Reasoning about actions and change, action languages
- Reasoning about knowledge, beliefs, and other mental attitudes
- Reasoning in knowledge graphs
- Reasoning in multi-agent systems
- Semantic web
- Similarity-based and contextual reasoning
- Uncertainty and vagueness
Submission Guidelines for the Main Track
Submissions should be anonymous and will be subject to double-blind peer review. Contributions may be regular papers (up to 9 pages) or short papers (up to 4 pages), including abstract, figures, and appendices (if any) but excluding references and acknowledgements. Papers must be written in English and must be formatted according to the style files that are provided on the website (see https://kr.org/KR2026/submission.html).
Generative AI models do not satisfy the criteria for authorship of papers published in KR 2026. If authors use an LLM in any part of the paper-writing process they assume full responsibility for all content, including checking for plagiarism and correctness of the entire submission. Text generated by an LLM as part of the paper’s methodology or experimental analysis is allowed but needs to be properly documented and described in the paper.
Authors may submit a separate PDF or ZIP file with additional information supporting their claims (such as proof details, additional experimental results, further details on experimental design, etc). The ZIP file (size up to 100 MB) may include content such as PDFs, code, or data. Such supplementary material should be submitted via the conference management system. The paper must be self contained, as the supplementary material will not be published. Reviewers will have the option, but not the obligation, to consult the supplementary material.
Accepted papers will be published in the KR 2026 proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work.
Top papers from KR 2026 will be invited to the award-winning paper tracks of Artificial Intelligence (AIJ) and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). Thus, award winners will have the possibility of choosing between AIJ and JAIR.
All submissions will be treated confidentially until the publication date.