Paper Submission

Registration was required for every author of an accepted paper before the camera-ready version could be submitted.

UKCI 2023 provided a dedicated platform for researchers to submit their work to the 22nd UK Conference on Computational Intelligence, held in September at the University of Aston in Birmingham. Submissions were managed through EasyChair, giving authors a single straightforward route to upload manuscripts and receive decisions. The conference programme welcomed contributions from academia, industry and government, spanning the many fields and domains where computational intelligence techniques are applied today, and the call for papers invited researchers to share current results and to discuss where the discipline is heading next.

Two categories of contribution were accepted for UKCI 2023, each with a fixed page limit that included references and any appendices. Regular papers offered a longer allowance for full methodological detail, while short papers provided a more compact format suited to preliminary findings, focused case studies or work in progress. Authors were required to submit original work that had not been published previously and was not under review elsewhere at the time of submission, upholding the integrity of the proceedings and the standards expected by delegates and reviewers.

To support consistent formatting across accepted papers, organisers asked contributors to use the official UKCI 2023 templates, which were available in both LaTeX and Word formats. These templates defined the expected structure, reference style and presentation of research content, reducing the effort needed to prepare manuscripts and ensuring that the published proceedings remained uniform and readable. Papers were submitted as a single PDF file uploaded to the EasyChair submission link, and requirements covering formatting and copyright were communicated to authors alongside the template downloads.

Accepted submissions were scheduled for inclusion in the conference proceedings, with accepted papers published in a Springer volume on Advances in Computational Intelligence subject to the usual formatting and copyright requirements. Following review and acceptance, registered delegates could expect a well-organised technical programme in which keynote speakers, track authors and poster presenters shared their results with an audience drawn from research, commercial and public-sector backgrounds. The organising committee and programme chairs, working on behalf of the conference community, continued to review submissions and shape the final published record of UKCI 2023.