Submissions should be made through the Microsoft Conference Management system.

Accepted papers will be indexed with a DOI and published in the conference proceedings, which will be made available online at the SBC OpenLib, in the SBC content portal.

At least one author of each accepted article must register and present the work at the conference for the article to be published in the conference proceedings.

Paper Length: Submitted papers must be up to 5 pages in SBC format, with up to 4 pages for the main text (including all figures and tables) and up to 1 page for the Ethical Considerations section (mandatory). Additional pages containing cited references are allowed.

Submitted papers must be written in Portuguese, Spanish, or English.

Anonymity Policy: Submissions must be anonymized and cannot contain any identifiable information. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from the submission, as well as Acknowledgments or other potentially identifying information. Citations to the authors’ previous work must be made in the third person. Submissions that do not comply with this policy will be rejected without review.

Ethical Considerations Sections

All authors must include an Ethical Considerations statement, a Generative AI Use statement, and an Author Contributions statement. They may also include, if applicable, an Acknowledgments section.

These sections are not meant for the discussion of limitations of your methodology, which should be addressed in the main body of the paper.

Please note that some of these sections should not be included in the anonymous submission. This applies to Author Contributions and Acknowledgments.

Ethical Considerations Statement

Required, must be included at submission time

This statement is a description of the ethical concerns and potential adverse impacts that authors considered and mitigated while conducting the work. Authors should describe the ethical challenges they faced in their submission and how they addressed such challenges. 

In particular, submissions that (1) describe experiments with human subjects users and/or deployed systems (e.g., websites or apps), or (2) rely on sensitive user data (e.g., social network information) must adhere to precepts of ethical research and community norms. These include compliance with applicable laws and applicable professional ethical codes; respect for privacy; secure storage of sensitive data; voluntary and informed consent when appropriate; avoiding deceptive practices when not essential; beneficence and non-maleficence (maximizing the benefits to an individual or society while minimizing harm to the individual); risk mitigation; and post-hoc disclosure of audits. 

We also encourage authors to discuss any potential adverse or unintended impacts the work might have once published, and how they have mitigated those potential impacts.

Generative AI Usage Statement

Required, must be included at submission time

A statement from all authors regarding whether generative AI tools (including but not limited to LLMs) were used during manuscript preparation. If such tools were used, the statement should identify the tool (e.g., ChatGPT, version X) and briefly describe the tasks it supported (e.g., grammar and style editing, summarization, figure or table structuring). 

Given the values of the conference, LAAI prohibits the use of LLMs to generate text for publications. Use of generative AI does not diminish author responsibility for the originality, accuracy, or integrity of the manuscript. Failure to disclose the use of generative AI tools is grounds for desk rejection. 

Author Contributions

Should not be included in the anonymous submission

A statement that summarizes the different contributions of each of the authors to the paper. There are many approaches to contribution statements, and authors can choose an approach they prefer, e.g., CRediT.

Acknowledgements

Should not be included in the anonymous submission

A short statement that often recognizes sources of funding/funders or key resources that were provided and enabled this particular research and paper. These statements also acknowledge people who supported the research, but have not made contributions that meet the standard for authorship.