Reykjavik

Call for papers - SISAP 2025

18th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications

Reykjavik, Iceland, October 1-3, 2025

Important Dates

Regular and Special Session Papers

Demonstration and Doctoral Symposium Papers

Scope

The 18th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP) is an annual forum for researchers and application developers in the area of similarity data management. It aims at the technological problems shared by numerous application domains, such as data mining, information retrieval, multimedia retrieval, computer vision, pattern recognition, computational biology, geography, biometrics, machine learning, and many others that make use of similarity search as a necessary supporting service. From its roots in metric indexing, SISAP has expanded to become the only international conference entirely devoted to all issues surrounding the theory, design, analysis, practice, and application of content-based and feature-based similarity search. Since 2021, SISAP has been a CORE Rank B conference.

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Important Additional Scholarly Activities at SISAP

Regular and Special Session Papers

The organisers of SISAP 2025 call for novel and original research papers that address the various topics of interest related to the conference. We encourage contributions both to theoretical aspects and applications.

Full papers (from 9 to 14 pages) are expected to be descriptions of complete technical work, whereas short papers (of up to 8 pages) can describe innovative approaches or preliminary results which may nevertheless require more work to mature. Vision papers and other position papers should be submitted as short research papers.

Special session papers will supplement the regular research papers and be included in the proceedings of SISAP 2025, which will be published by Springer.

Regular and special session research papers will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind review process. Thus, the submissions must be properly anonymized.

A small selection of the best papers presented at the conference will be recommended for inclusion in a special issue of Elsevier Information Systems. These extended versions will be subject to a second round of peer review at the journal.

The Best Paper will be recognized with a certificate and a monetary prize, thanks to Springer's sponsorship.

Special Sessions

Special sessions are mini-venues, each focusing on one state-of-the-art research direction within the field of similarity search and applications. For SISAP 2025, we call for contributions for the following two special sessions:

Demonstration Papers

SISAP 2025 invites novel, impactful demonstrations aligned with its topics of interest. Submissions (up to 8 pages, including references) must include a mandatory 1-page PDF appendix describing how the demo will be conducted on-site.

Demonstrations will be evaluated on novelty, technical challenges, and on-site impact in a single-blind review process.

Please see the call for Demonstrations for more details.

Doctoral Symposium Papers

SISAP 2025 Doctoral Symposium provides a forum for PhD students to present their research ideas and receive feedback from senior members of the research community. The Symposium fosters a collaborative environment, encouraging constructive discussions and sharing of ideas.

The doctoral symposium papers will be peer-reviewed in a single-blind review process.

Please see the call for for Doctoral Symposium Papers for more details.

Topics of interest

Please see the topics of interest page for more details.

Submissions

Papers have to be submitted in PDF format through EasyChair. Please see the submission guidelines