About the Workshop
Spatio-temporal reasoning is becoming a central bottleneck for modern AI. Across language, vision, robotics, and multi-agent settings, current learning-based systems can be impressive at pattern recognition, yet they often fail when faced with distribution shifts, long-horizon dependencies, counterfactual queries, or the need to justify decisions in dynamic environments. At the same time, the community is seeing rapid progress in foundation models (including vision-language-action models), neural world models, and spatio-temporal representation learning, which creates an opportunity to couple these advances with structured representations and reasoning to improve robustness, transfer, and explainability.
STRL 2026 brings together the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning and Machine Learning communities to advance dependable spatio-temporal AI. We invite submissions that develop representations, learning methods, and evaluation resources for reasoning about space, time, motion, and events in dynamic environments (see topics below). A key goal is to identify reusable abstractions and benchmarks that improve robustness, generalization, and explainability across tasks and modalities.
August 2026
Workshop Date
Bremen, Germany
IJCAI-ECAI 2026
Full Day
In-Person Workshop
Call for Papers
Topics of Interest
We invite submissions related to the integration of spatial and temporal reasoning with machine learning, including but not limited to:
- Neuro-symbolic approaches to spatio-temporal reasoning and learning
- Spatio-temporal commonsense reasoning and learning
- Generalization in spatio-temporal reasoning and learning (compositional generalization, continual learning, transfer learning, causal reasoning)
- Large language models and vision-language(-action) models for spatio-temporal reasoning and learning
- World models for spatio-temporal reasoning and learning
- Explainability and interpretability in spatio-temporal reasoning and learning
- Spatio-temporal reasoning and learning in adjacent fields (e.g., robotics, computer vision, natural language processing, multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, and knowledge graphs)
- Benchmarks for spatio-temporal reasoning and learning
- Real-world problems in spatio-temporal reasoning and learning
Keywords: Spatio-Temporal Reasoning, Neuro-Symbolic AI, Multimodal Learning, Commonsense Reasoning, World Models, Explainable AI, Benchmarks and Evaluation, Continual and Compositional Generalization
Submission Guidelines
TBA
Important Dates
All deadlines are AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
Workshop Program
Keynote Speakers
Steven Schockaert
Cardiff University, UK
Steven Schockaert is Professor at Cardiff University. His research focuses on natural language processing, commonsense reasoning, representation learning, and neuro-symbolic AI. He is a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.
To be announced
Details about the keynote speaker will be announced soon. Stay tuned for updates!
Tentative Schedule
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Opening remarks, overview of goals, and logistics |
| 09:10 – 10:00 | Keynote 1 Speaker TBA 40 min talk + 10 min Q&A |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 – 11:20 | Contributed Session I 3–4 presentations (10 min talk + 5 min Q&A each) |
| 11:20 – 12:00 | Poster lightning round + moderated discussion Up to 12 × 2 min |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 – 14:20 | Keynote 2 Speaker TBA 40 min talk + 10 min Q&A |
| 14:20 – 15:10 | Contributed Session II 2–3 presentations (10 min talk + 5 min Q&A each) |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 – 16:20 | Poster session and demos Interactive, with discussion prompts |
| 16:20 – 17:10 | Panel discussion and open Q&A E.g., benchmarks, evaluation, deployment challenges |
| 17:10 – 17:30 | Wrap-up, takeaways, and community roadmap |
Times may be adjusted to match the official IJCAI-ECAI 2026 workshop timetable.
Organization
Organizing Committee
Jae Hee Lee
University of Hamburg, Germany
Jakob Suchan
Constructor University Bremen, Germany
Xun Gong
Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Advisory Committee
Michael Sioutis
University of Montpellier, France
Zhiguo Long
Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Parisa Kordjamshidi
Michigan State University, US
Mehul Bhatt
Örebro University, Sweden
Program Committee
TBA
Venue
The workshop will take place in Bremen, Germany, co-located with IJCAI-ECAI 2026.
Detailed venue information will be announced closer to the event.