[agents] IJCAI-20 Call for Papers: AI in FinTech

[Satoshi Kurihara]

IJCAI-20 Call for Papers: AI in FinTech

FinTech (or Fintech), or financial technology, is at the epicentre of
synergizing, innovating and transforming financial services, economy,
technology, media, and telecommunication. FinTech nurtures new
financial and economic mechanisms, models, products, services, and
opportunities. FinTech also strengthens existing system efficiency,
cost-effectiveness, customer experience, risk mitigation, regulation,
and security.
AI is the keystone enabler of FinTech. AI essentially and
comprehensively transforms the way and effect financial businesses
operate, transact, interact and collaborate with their consumers,
markets, and regulators. AI innovates new and intelligent FinTech for
more efficient, convenient, personalized, explainable, secure and
proactive financial products and services. To achieve these, on one
hand, AI technologies including knowledge representation, machine
learning, pattern recognition, signal processing, data analytics,
computer vision, natural language processing, biometrics, and
computational intelligence evolve to cultivate FinTech. On the other,
FinTech is driving new AI research and innovation.

Topics
This Special Track on AI in FinTech seeks to stimulate the discussion,
research and applications on AI for FinTech. We solicit quality papers
on the state-of-the-art theoretical research, visionary opinion, and
practical advancements of AI in FinTech. Topics include but not
limited to:
• Analyzing complex couplings, dependencies, interactions, relations
and networking in finance
• Analyzing regional and global financial activities, behaviors,
events and their impact and risk
• Analyzing and representation of financial businesses, networks,
systems and problems
• Jointly modelling natural, online, social, economic, cultural and
political factors in finance
• Analyzing and learning multisource, multimodal and heterogeneous
financial events and impact
• Analyzing and modeling high-dimensional, sequential and evolving
financial events and impact
• Constructing benchmarkable financial knowledge graph and repositories
• AI for faster, cheaper and smarter design, simulation and evaluation
of new financial mechanisms, models, products and services
• Real-time intelligent financial analysis and processing for cloud,
online and mobile services
• AI-enabled regtech for digital authentication and identification and
intelligent regulation
• AI for active, real-time, tailored and automated regulation of new,
digital and mobile financial services
• AI to analyze, predict and intervene new cybersecurity, fraud and
risks in banking, insurance and finance
• Cross-market, product, indicator, platform and network modelling,
hologram and risk analysis
• Analyzing financial crisis, exception, emergence, uncertainty and
ill- to un-structured systemic risk
• Data-driven theories and tools for digital assets and their
valuation, risk analysis and management
• New blockchain theories and tools for cryptocurrency, digital asset
pricing, trading, mechanism design, smart contract, open banking and
investment
• Intelligent innovations in credit loans, SMEs and individual
financing, P2P lending, crowdfunding, roboadvising, digital payment,
dynamic credit rating, and asset pricing
• Intelligent algorithms, mechanisms, interfaces and systems for
digital, mobile, virtual and Internet-based banking, financing,
capital markets, regtech, insurtech, and paytech
• AI for assuring trust, privacy, security, compliance, explainability
and ethics in FinTech
• Better practice and lessons of AI-enabled FinTech into
implementation and productization
• Other important aspects, issues and progress associated with AI in FinTech

Important Dates
• Submission site opening: January 7, 2020
• Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2020 (11:59PM UTC-12)
• Paper submission deadline: January 21, 2020 (11:59PM UTC-12)
• Summary reject notification: February 21, 2020
• Author response period: March 21-25, 2020
• Paper notification: April 19, 2020

Submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCAI2020
Formatting guidelines, LaTeX styles, and Word template:
https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit

Submission Process
The paper title, author names, contact details, and a brief abstract
must be submitted electronically through the IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 paper
submission site (link above) by the abstract submission deadline. Full
papers must be submitted through the same site by the paper submission
deadline. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to
attend the conference to present the work.

Keywords
When submitting abstracts, authors will be required to choose up to
three content area keywords that belong to this Special Track. General
categories should be used only if specific categories do not apply or
do not accurately reflect the main contributions. The full list of
keywords will be available on the submission site.

Paper Length and Format
Papers submitted to the Special Track must be formatted according to
IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 guidelines (link above) and must be no longer than
seven pages in total: six pages for the body of the paper (including
all figures), plus up to one additional page with references that do
not fit within the six body pages. (For accepted papers, up to two
additional pages may be purchased at an additional cost per page, but
note that at the time of submissions, papers are required to adhere to
the 6+1 format above.) Authors are required to submit their electronic
papers in PDF format. Over-length papers will be rejected without
review. Submissions must be self-contained. IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 will not
accept any supplementary materials other than those specified in the
paragraph “Resubmissions of Substantially Improved Recent
Submissions," below.

Policy on Multiple Submissions
IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 will not accept any paper that, at the time of
submission, is under review for, has already been published in, or has
already been accepted for publication in, a journal or another venue
with formally published proceedings. (As a guideline, authors should
regard publications with a DOI, ISBN, or ISSN as formal
publications. Questions about submission eligibility should be
referred to the program chair in advance of the submission deadline.)
Authors are also required not to submit their papers to venues with
formal publication during the IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 review
period. Submission is also permitted for papers that are available as
a technical report (or similar, e.g., in arXiv). In this case, we
suggest the authors not cite the report, so as to preserve
anonymity. Multiple submission is grounds for immediate rejection of
the submitted paper.

Confidentiality Policy
All submissions will be treated in strict confidence until the
publication date.

Conflict of Interest Policy
All individuals involved in the IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 review process must
adhere to the IJCAI conflict of interest policy. Details can be found
at http://ijcai.org/.

Review Process
Reviewing for this Special Track at IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 is the same as
the main track, which is double blind (reviewers do not know the
author's identity or vice versa). The first page, on which the paper
body begins, should include the title and abstract, but not names or
affiliations of the authors. Acknowledgments of funding or assistance
should also be omitted. Submissions should not contain pointers to
supplemental material on the web. When referring to one's own work,
use the third person, rather than the first person. For example, say
"Previously, Bessiere and desJardins [7] have shown that...", rather
than "In our previous work [7] we have shown that...". All identifying
information can be added back to the final camera-ready version of
accepted papers.
Selection criteria include originality of ideas, correctness, clarity,
significance of results, and quality of presentation. Each submission
will first be evaluated by Senior Program Committee members (SPCs). If
the SPCs in charge of the submission believe that the paper has no
chance of being accepted, they will inform the Area Chair (AC). If the
AC concurs with this assessment, then the paper will be rejected
without entering the standard reviewing process (summary
reject). Papers passing this step will go through a full reviewing
process by multiple reviewers. This process will include the
opportunity for authors to point out errors in the reviews
(response). Author responses will be limited to clear factual errors
in the reviews, and are not intended to create a dialogue between
reviewers and authors. By submitting a paper, authors acknowledge that
they are aware of the possibility of receiving a summary rejection
notification within one month after submission without any written
review. Authors also accept that all decisions of the program
committee (i.e., summary reject, standard reject, or accept) will be
final and cannot be appealed.

Submission Restrictions
IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 is enforcing a strict submission limit. Each
individual author is limited to no more than 6 submissions to
IJCAI-PRICAI 2020. The list of authors provided at submission time is
final. Authors may not be added to, or removed from, papers following
submission. (Author ordering may still be changed.) Finally, for each
submitted paper to IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 the set of authors commit
themselves to review up to three submissions to IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, if
asked to. (For example, authors X and Y who submit two papers together
could be asked to review up to six papers.) This rule does not apply
to papers for which at least one of the authors is already a PC
member, an SPC member, or an AC of IJCAI-PRICAI 2020.

Resubmissions of Substantially Improved Recent Submissions
Authors of papers that have been rejected from AAAI 2020, ECAI 2020,
AAMAS 2020, ICCV 2020, or ICAPS 2020 are permitted to resubmit
substantially improved versions to IJCAI-PRICAI 2020. In this case,
authors must declare the resubmission by including a cover letter with
their submission. The cover letter should summarize the main reasons
for rejection and should describe the changes the authors have made to
address the reviewers' comments. The cover letter should be inserted
at the beginning of the submitted PDF, along with the previous reviews
and previous anonymized rejected submission, before the 6+1 pages of
the paper. Such resubmissions must contain, in a single PDF file:
• the cover letter, headed by the title of the rejected paper, the
tracking number (if any), and the name of the conference to which this
paper was submitted,
• the full reviews from the rejected conference,
• the anonymized version of the rejected paper, and
• the new submission.
A paper rejected from these conferences and omitting to declare
resubmission will be directly rejected without further review.
Note that IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 is a joint conference held under the IJCAI
rules. The papers published there will be solely IJCAI publications
with IJCAI as copyright holder. This applies to all main conference
contributions regardless of the track.

Enquiries
Please send all enquiries about the Special Track on AI in FinTech to
the Special Track Chair Longbing Cao (Longbing.Cao at uts.edu.au).

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