NORA: Workshop on KNOwledge GRaphs & Agentic Systems Interplay

Jointly organized with the Workshop on Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (GenAIK 2026)

August 15-17, 2026, co-located with IJCAI-ECAI 2026

Bremen, Germany, TBD | Room TBD

News!

26th Mar 2026

Call for papers! The call for papers is now live: call for papers.

12th Mar 2026

The website of the workshop is live!

6th Mar 2026

Workshop Proposal Accepted! We are excited to announce our proposal has been accepted for IJCAI-ECAI 2026 as a joint-workshop with GenAIK 2026.

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About

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.

Call for Papers

Topics of Interest

We welcome submissions and participations from intradisciplinary, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary researchers and industry & public sector practitioners in the areas related to the topics of interest. We especially welcome contributions that provide theoretical insights, propose new approaches, or introduce new grounded solutions in real-world applications such as enterprise, smart assistance & chat, healthcare, finance, tourism, etc.

We invite submissions in this non-exhaustive list of topics of interest, including, but not limited to:

  • 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

Submission Guidelines

General Policies
General Inforamtion:
The workshop is archivable, and its proceedings will be published in CEUR-WS. All accepted and presented papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. At least one of the authors of the accepted papers must register for the workshop and present their submission(s) to be included in the workshop proceedings. The workshop will be a 100% in-person 1-day event at IJCAI-ECAI 2026
Use of Generative AI Policy:
This workshop adheres to the CEUR-WS GenAI Policy. Please familiarise yourself with the policy and include a Declaration on Generative AI section in your manuscript.
Dual Submission Policy:
Dual submissions, such as submitting the same manuscript to more than one venue (i.e. workshop, conference, journal, etc.), are not allowed.
Withdrawal Policy:
Failing to register will lead to a paper withdrawal.
Submission Tracks
There are three types of submissions covering the entire joint-workshop topics spectrum (see above):
(1) Research papers (Full (8-10 pages) and Short (max 6 pages)): presenting novel research or work in progress.
(2) Industry papers (max. 6 pages):: in which industry experts can present and discuss practical solutions, use cases, and best practices at any stage of implementation.
(3) Position & demo papers (max. 4 pages):: encouraging papers describing significant work in progress, late-breaking results or ideas, as well as functional systems relevant to the community.

These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. Authors may include an unlimited but reasonable number of pages of references and appendices. In addition, papers must include a mandatory section on the limitations of the work, placed after the conclusions and before the references. Authors may also optionally include a section discussing ethical considerations and concerns regarding their research.
Each submission must be submitted to only one track, the most suitable one.
Submission Format
(1) All submissions must follow CEURART single-column format. An official Overleaf template is available for LaTeX users. The offline templates can be downloaded here CEURART.zip, which contains the CEURART style and also the ODT (LibreOffice) template file. More information about the CEURART templates is available in the CEURART style files for papers section on the CEUR-WS > HOWTOSUBMIT page.
(2) Each submission shall be One Single PDF file, including the references, appendices.
(3) Supplementary materials (of reasonable number/size) may be included, but they are optional, and reviewers are not required to review these materials.
(4) Submissions that do not adhere to the specified styles, including paper size, font size restrictions, and margin width, will be desk-rejected.
(5) The reviewing process will be single anonymous, wherein each paper will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members. A meta-review will be provided in case of any disagreements. The final decision of acceptance/rejection will be made in consensus by the Chairs.
Submission Link
Papers should be submitted to OpenReview.
Note: Please be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy when creating new profiles without an institutional email.
Presentation
All accepted papers shall be presented in person.
Accepted papers will be presented as posters only or as posters plus oral presentation. Authors required to deliver an oral presentation will be notified accordingly.

Important Dates

Note: All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Submissions Open March 28th, 2026
Submission Hard Deadline May 7th, 2026
Notification June 10th, 2026
Camera-ready Submission June 25th, 2026
Workshop Date (In Person) August 15-17, 2026

Confirmed Speakers & Panelists

Coming Soon

Program

TBD

Organizers

Organizer 1
Btissam Er-Rahmadi

Independant Researcher

Organizer 2
Sebastien Montella

Huawei Technologies R&D UK Ltd

Organizer 4
Andre Melo

Huawei Technologies R&D UK Ltd

Organizer 5
Hajira Jabeen

University Hospital Cologne

Program Committee

TBD

Registration

Workshop participants, including accepted authors, must be registered for the workshop by paying the workshop fee. This fee is different from the main conference fee. Consequently, workshop attendees do not need to register for the main IJCAI-ECAI conference, but are highly encouraged to.
The amount of the workshop fee(s) will be shared on the hosting conference website.

Awards

The workshop will recognize outstanding contributions through the following awards:

  • Best Paper Award
  • Best Student Paper Award

Awards will be selected based on the quality of the submission, originality, technical contribution, and presentation during the workshop. Eligibility for the Best Student Paper Award requires that the primary author is a student at the time of submission.

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