Call for Participation

TAS 2026: Trustworthy Agentic Systems, a symposium in the AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series, invites contributions on making the trustworthiness of agentic systems a property we can specify, verify, and defend. We emphasize actionable techniques, evidence (tests, metrics, logs, proofs), open artifacts, and alignment with standards (e.g., NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC, EU AI Act). The symposium deliberately bridges theory and practice and welcomes speculative work and work in progress alongside completed results.

Topics of Interest

We welcome submissions addressing either or both complementary themes, plus cross-cutting topics.

Theme I: Trustworthy agentic systems by design (building responsibility into agents and their underlying models)

• Privacy-preserving and federated training and fine-tuning; differential privacy; machine unlearning and the right to be forgotten
• Safety, alignment, and guardrails for LLMs and tool-using agents; constraint enforcement and human-over-the-loop control
• Subgroup robustness and performance disparities across populations in LLM outputs, recommendations, and agentic decisions
• Adversarial robustness: jailbreaks, prompt and tool-output injection, memory poisoning, agent hijacking, and systematic red-teaming
• Hallucination mitigation, grounding, factuality, and provenance guarantees in retrieval-augmented and multi-modal systems
• Explainability, interpretability, and transparency for high-stakes and clinical decision support
• Specification and verification of agent plans, autonomy levels, and permissions; safe tool-use boundaries; multi-agent coordination and emergent-behavior risks
• Distributed, coded, and reliable computation for scalable and fault-tolerant agent execution, training, and serving
• Evaluation science: benchmarks, reliability metrics, uncertainty quantification, and reproducibility for multi-step agent behavior

Theme II: Accountable governance and societal impact (translating principles into auditable practice and policy)

• Auditing, assurance cases, and incident response for deployed LLM and agentic systems
• Governance frameworks and standards alignment (NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC, EU AI Act) operationalized as engineering workflows
• Human-AI collaboration, oversight, and the preservation of human agency and accountability
• Empirical studies of adoption, harm, and societal impact, including case studies from regulated and safety-critical domains such as healthcare
• Open datasets, toolkits, and shared infrastructure that lower the barrier to responsible practice

Cross-Cutting

• Tool demos, datasets, benchmarks, and reusable artifacts; case studies and industry experience; interdisciplinary perspectives across AI, software engineering, HCI, and policy.

Submission

We invite the following contributions, formatted using the AAAI-26 author kit:

• Full Papers (4-8 pages): for novel research, artifact submissions, or strong works in progress.
• Short Papers (2-4 pages): for positions, smaller artifacts, and early work in progress.
• Abstracts (1 page): for sharing ideas (non-archival only).

Page limits exclude references. Each submission is reviewed by members of the program committee for relevance, technical soundness, clarity, and potential to stimulate discussion. Submissions should be made through EasyChair (link to be posted here).

Per AAAI policy, all participants (presenters, organizers, and attendees) must register for the event. TAS follows the AAAI in-person, no-virtual-presentations policy.

Important Dates

The “Preferred” submission round, with the option to be included in the AAAI proceedings:

Regardless of archival plans, authors are encouraged to submit earlier rather than later.

Proceedings

Accepted contributions in the “Preferred” submission round may be included in the official AAAI proceedings (AAAI Technical Reports). One-page abstracts are non-archival. Camera-ready files for the official AAAI proceedings are collected through the AAAI CRC platform; further instructions will be shared with accepted authors.

Contact

Sumon Biswas (Co-Chair, Case Western Reserve University), sumon@case.edu Anindya Bijoy Das (Co-Chair, University of Akron), adas@uakron.edu Shahnewaz Karim Sakib (Co-Chair, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), shahnewazkarim-sakib@utc.edu Shibbir Ahmed (Co-Chair, Texas State University), shibbir@txstate.edu