Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security Conference (STIDS) 2026

The Thirteenth International Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS 2026) will be held May 27-28, 2026 at the George Mason University FUSE Center in Arlington, VA.

STIDS provides a forum for academia, government, and industry to share the latest applied research, development, and application of semantic technology for defense, intelligence, and security applications. Semantic technology is a fundamental enabler of greater flexibility, precision, timeliness, and automation of analysis and response to rapidly evolving threats.

National security increasingly hinges on our ability to integrate artificial intelligence with semantic technologies, knowledge graphs, and data fabrics. The STIDS 2026 theme centers on applying semantic technologies to support trustworthy and explainable reasoning across data ecosystems.

Submission Guidelines

We invite submissions of original, unpublished research and application papers that address innovative solutions, architectures, and methodologies integrating semantic technologies with advanced computing in support of national security objectives. We particularly welcome papers that advance the state of the art in semantic interoperability and machine reasoning for data-intensive systems, supporting enhanced situational awareness, predictive analytics, and decision-making capabilities in complex, distributed environments.

• Extended abstracts must be no more than 3 pages
• Short papers must be between 5-9 pages
• Long papers must be between 10-14 pages
• Must follow CEUR-WS conference proceedings format
• Papers must be original and not under review elsewhere
• At least one author must register and present at the conference