Joint Call for Papers

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Joint Workshop on Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (GenAIK) and KNOwledge 
GRaphs & Agentic Systems Interplay (NORA),

15-17 August 2026,  Bremen, Germany

Web: https://genetasefa.github.io/GenAIK2026/  and 
https://nora-workshop.github.io/IJCAIECAI2026/


X: @GenAIK26

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9868047  and 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/nora-knowledge-graphs-agentic-systems-interplay

Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@GenAIK

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In conjunction with IJCAI-ECAI 2026, August 15-19

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Workshop Overview

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Recent advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Large 
Language Models (LLMs) have transformed the AI landscape, enabling systems to 
generate multimodal content and perform increasingly complex reasoning and 
decision-making tasks. Despite these advances, generative models still face 
important challenges, including hallucinations, limited interpretability, and 
difficulties in grounding outputs in reliable domain knowledge.

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) provide a principled framework for representing 
structured and interconnected knowledge through entities, relations, and formal 
ontologies. They enable interpretability, reasoning, and the integration of 
domain expertise, making them an important component for building reliable and 
trustworthy AI systems. At the same time, LLM-based agents are emerging as a 
powerful paradigm for building autonomous systems capable of planning, tool 
use, and long-term task execution, often requiring structured representations 
of knowledge and memory.

The interaction between generative models, agentic systems, and knowledge 
graphs is therefore becoming an important research direction in contemporary 
AI. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from AI, 
NLP, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web, and Hybrid AI to explore methods, systems, 
and applications that combine these paradigms.

This edition represents a joint workshop, bringing together the communities of 
GenAIK (Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs) and NORA (Knowledge Graphs and 
Agentic Systems Interplay) to foster collaboration across these complementary 
research areas.

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Topics of Interest

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- KG construction, completion, and refinement with GenAI and Agents

— Text-to-KG extraction using LLMs (multilingual, multimodal)

— KG completion, cleaning, and refinement (deduplication, entity resolution)

— Fact verification, contradiction detection, and consistency checking

— Human-in-the-loop KG curation and interactive refinement

- KG grounding for information retrieval, including generation, querying, and 
dialogue

— KG-grounded generation / GraphRAG (subgraph retrieval, path-based evidence)

— Natural language querying of KGs via GenAI (e.g., NL-to-SPARQL)

— Hybrid QA and dialogue systems combining KGs and GenAI (e.g., Agents)

— Prompting / controllable generation using KG structure and constraints

— Context and memory indexing and retrieval for GenAI and agents

- Neuro-symbolic methods, reasoning, and explainability

— Hybrid reasoning with rules, constraints, and structured evidence

— Explainability and verifiable reasoning with provenance/evidence graphs

— Cross-domain knowledge transfer with KGs and GenAIK

- Representations, embeddings, and temporal/evolving KGs

— GenAI for KG embeddings and hybrid vectorgraph representations

— Temporal KGs, dynamic updates, continual learning, concept drift

— Ontology learning, schema induction, alignment, and schema evolution

- Trustworthiness, safety, and governance

— Bias mitigation using KGs in GenAI and Agentic Systems

— Hallucination reduction via grounding/constraints; robustness to attacks

— Uncertainty estimation and calibrated confidence

— Privacy, access control, and policy-aware KG-grounded generation

- Agentic KGs and real-world systems

— Agentic KGs: KGs as long-term memory/state for LLM agents

— KGs serving agents' memories: Episodic (experiences, events, etc.), Semantic 
(facts, concepts, etc.), and — Procedural (skills, tasks, etc.)

— KG-aware planning, tool use (query/update), and multi-agent coordination

— Collaborative & shared agent memories and contexts.

— Context Engineering enhanced by KGs

- GenAI/Agents and KG Applications

— Efficient and proactive personal assistance & Personalisation

— Multi-Lingual & Multi-modal integrations and enablement

— Personalisation vs Generalisation in GenAI and Agentic systems memory

— Domain-specific applications: scholarly knowledge, biomedicine & healthcare, 
finance, education, etc.

— Task-specific applications: personal assistance, dialogue systems, 
recommender systems, customer service, etc.

— Architectures and pipelines

- Datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation

— Benchmark datasets for GenAI or Agents plus KG tasks

— Evaluation of grounding/faithfulness, factuality, reasoning, robustness

— Evaluation pitfalls: data leakage, LLM-as-a-judge bias, reproducibility, and 
reporting standards


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Important Dates (AoE)

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- Submission Deadline: 7 May 2026

- Notification of Acceptance: 10 June 2026

- Camera-ready Paper Due: 25 June 2026

- Workshop date (In-Person): 15, 16, or 17 August 2026


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Submissions Guidelines, Policies, and Awards are available on the website.

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Organization

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GenAIK Team:

- Genet Asefa 
Gesese<https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/forschung/,DanaInfo=www.fiz-karlsruhe.de,SSL+lebenslauf-und-publikationen-dr-ing-genet-asefa-gesese>,
 FIZ Karlsruhe, KIT, Germany

- Angelo 
Salatino<https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/,DanaInfo=www.salatino.org,SSL+>, The 
Open University, UK.

- Blerina 
Spahiu<https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/,DanaInfo=en.unimib.it,SSL+blerina-spahiu>,
  University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

- Shenghui 
Wang<https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/,DanaInfo=people.utwente.nl,SSL+shenghui.wang>,
 University of Twente, The Netherlands

- Heiko 
Paulheim<https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/dws/people/professors/prof-dr-heiko-paulheim/,DanaInfo=www.uni-mannheim.de,SSL+>,
 University of Mannheim, Germany

NORA Team:

- Btissam 
Er-Rahmadi<https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/,DanaInfo=berrahmadi.github.io,SSL+>,
 Independent Researcher, UK

- Sebastien 
Montella<https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/,DanaInfo=montellasebastien.github.io,SSL+>,
 Huawei Technologies R&D UK Ltd, UK

- Damien 
Graux<https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/,DanaInfo=dgraux.github.io,SSL+>, 
EcoVadis, UK

- Andre 
Melo<https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/,DanaInfo=scholar.google.com,SSL+citations?user=dDZV0m4AAAAJ&hl=en>,
  Huawei Technologies R&D UK Ltd, UK

- Hajira 
Jabeen<https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/,DanaInfo=hajirajabeen.github.io,SSL+>, 
University Hospital Cologne, Germany





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Information Service Engineering
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