Following the proud tradition of Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems conferences, KICSS 2025 celebrates its 20th anniversary as a leading forum in the field. 
This milestone event will cover all aspects of knowledge management, knowledge engineering, intelligent information systems, and creativity in an information technology context, 
including computational creativity with its cognitive and collaborative dimensions.
As we commemorate two decades of innovation and scholarly exchange, we invite papers reporting original unpublished research results on theoretical foundations, IT implementations
 of decision support and expert systems, as well as case studies of successful applications across various domains.

Submission Guidelines

The proceedings of KICSS 2025 will be published in the open-access IEICE Proceedings Series.
Authors may also submit the same paper to the special issue [DV ISS Symposium (KICSS2025)] in the IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. 
If accepted for the journal, the paper will be published as a Letter and will not appear in the KICSS proceedings.

[Conference Topics]:
- Anticipatory networks, systems, and decisions  
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications  
- Autonomous creative systems  
- Blockchain for knowledge management systems  
- Cognitive foundations of knowledge  
- Cognitive and psychological issues in creativity research  
- Collaborative activities in Living Labs  
- Collaborative idea generation and creativity  
- Collaborative knowledge creation  
- Collaborative working environments fostering creativity  
- Complex system modelling  
- Computer supported creativity  
- Creativity support systems  
- Decision sciences  
- Decision support systems (DSS)  
- Digital transformation of knowledge systems  
- Emerging technologies for knowledge management  
- Explainable AI in knowledge systems  
- Foresight support systems (FSS)  
- General creative systems (GCS)  
- Human-AI collaboration in creative processes  
- Information fusion  
- Knowledge in multi-agent systems  
- Knowledge integration  
- Knowledge management in business, industry, and administration  
- Knowledge representation and reasoning  
- Large language models for knowledge management  
- Living Lab support systems (LLSS)  
- Metaverse applications for collaboration and creativity  
- Multicriteria decision making  
- Non-monotonic reasoning  
- Ontology creation and management  
- Open innovation  
- Organizational learning  
- Post-pandemic knowledge management strategies  
- Quantum computing for knowledge systems  
- Reasoning about knowledge  
- Sustainable development through knowledge systems  
- Uncertainty modelling  
- Virtual and augmented reality for collaborative knowledge creation  
- Web intelligence tools  
- Web 3.0 and semantic knowledge management

Committees

Organizing committee

• Honorary Chairs:
  - Susumu Kunifuji, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan
  - Thanaruk Theeramunkong, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT), Thammasat University, Thailand
  
  General Chair:
  - Takayuki Ito, Kyoto University, Japan
  
  Program Co-Chairs:
  - Takahiro Uchiya (Nagoya Institute of Technology(NITech), Japan)
  - Motoki Miura (Chiba Inst. of Tech, Japan)
  
  Publication Chair:
  - Shun Okuhara, Mie University, Japan
  
  Financial Chair:
  - Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology(AIIT), Japan
  
  Local Arrangement Chair:
  - Tessai Hayama (Nagaoka Univ. of Tech, Japan)
  
  Invited Session Co-Chairs:
  - Takaya Yuizono, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan
  - Koutaro Kamada, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan
  
  Program Committee Members:
  -Takahiro Kawaji ( Univ. of Kurume, Japan )
  -Motoki Miura (Chiba Inst. of Tech, Japan)
  -Tessai Hayama (Nagaoka Univ. of Tech, Japan)
  -Takaya Yuizono (JAIST, Japan)
  -Atsuo Yoshitaka (JAIST, Japan)
  -Tokuro Matsuo (AIIT, Japan)
  -Takayuki Ito (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
  -Takahiro Uchiya (NITech, Japan)
  -Shun Okuhara (Mie Univ., Japan)
  -Jawad Haqbeen (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
  -Sofia Sahab (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
  -Wen Gu (NITech, Japan)
  -Shiyao Ding (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

Contact

Tessai Hayama (Nagaoka University of Technology)
t-hayama@kjs.nagaokaut.ac.jp