International Joint Workshop of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare andHYbrid Models for Coupling Deductive and Inductive ReAsoning – HC@AIxIA+HYDRA 2025 

Bologna (Italy), October 25-28, 2025https://sites.google.com/unical.it/hcaixia-hydra-2025/

CO-LOCATED with the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025)

== INITIAL NOTICE == 

This workshop is a joint event stemmed from the communities of the HC@AIxIA and HYDRA workshops, which have been held in separately up to 2024. Please refer to the respective websites for more information on the previous editions.

== INFORMATION ==

In a rapidly evolving world where AI is increasingly embedded in critical sectors, integrating advanced reasoning methods into practical applications not only enhances technological capabilities but also addresses pressing societal challenges, making this integration both useful and profoundly interesting. The joint HYDRA and HC@AIxIAworkshop provides a unique platform for exploring the intersection of foundational AI research and practical applications across multiple domains; it also brings together the research themes of hybrid deductive-inductive reasoning in artificial intelligence (HYDRA) and the application of AI in healthcare (HC@AIxIA). By exploring the synergies between advanced reasoning methods and their application across diverse domains, including but not limited to healthcare, the workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation.

== CALL FOR PAPERS ==

The workshop welcomes original research contributions, summaries of recent work, and work-in-progress studies on frameworks, applications, and methodologies for combining deductive and inductive approaches. It invites a wide multidisciplinary spectrum of researchers, industrialists, entrepreneurs, and healthcare practitioners: submissions are welcome from a range of stakeholders, including Computer scientists, health informaticians, and emergency medicine experts; Public health experts, epidemiologists, clinicians, etc.; National and international public health agencies; Epidemic intelligence systems providers; NGOs and Agencies; Industry and startups. Collaborations across disciplines will bridge the gap between theory and practice and foster actionable AI-driven solutions across diverse domains.

Possible topics of interest are, but are NOT limited to:* Hybrid inductive-deductive approaches to AI* Integration of logic programming paradigms (e.g., ASP, CSP) in inductive scenarios* New methods for combining deductive and inductive systems* Knowledge representation and reasoning to enhance inductive processes* Evaluation of Hybrid Reasoning Methods* Ethical and social implications of hybrid AI systems* Machine learning and statistical methods for clinical decision support* Knowledge representation and formal reasoning in healthcare* Probabilistic graphical models and causal networks for clinical decision-making* Personalized medicine and computer-interpretable clinical guidelines* Ethical and legal considerations in medical AI* Machine learning methods, data mining, and statistical methods for clinical decision support* Probabilistic graphical models for clinical decision-making and causal networks* Learning, representation, and reasoning with time* Methods for diagnosis, treatment selection, treatment planning, and prognosis* Monitoring patients in healthcare* Ontologies and medical vocabularies* Support for natural language generation/understanding in connection with electronic patient records* Deductive and Inductive systems in eHealth scenarios* Tools for supporting authoring, execution, and maintenance of clinical protocols and guidelines* Tools for building and deployment of clinical decision-support systems.

== SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ==

Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the ChairingTool system at the link:https://chairingtool.com/conferences/aixia-hydra25/main-track?role=author

The workshop welcomes both full papers, possibly already submitted to other conferences or journals, and short papers, which are suggested for presenting work in progress, extended abstracts, software prototypes, or general overviews of research projects. The workshop also welcomes position and discussion papers.

All submissions must be in PDF format, written in English, and formatted according to the LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Full papers should not exceed 13 pages (including bibliography); short, position, and discussion papers should not exceed 6 pages (including bibliography); no page limit is set for non-original contributions.To ease the reviewing process, the authors of full papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation).

Please always refer to the workshop website for latest updates: https://sites.google.com/unical.it/hcaixia-hydra-2025/.

== PROCEEDINGS AND POST-PROCEEDINGS ==

All accepted original contributions (both full and short) are being considered for publication in the CCIS book series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899).Non-original communications will be given visibility on the workshop website including a link to the original publication, if already published.If a sufficient number of high-quality papers are accepted, Chairs will also consider the publication of a selection on an international journal special issue.

== SUBMISSION MODEL ==

In order to facilitate authors' work, we adopt a rolling submission model. Once the submission management system is open, authors are invited to submit their contributions at any time before the deadlines. The review process will be continuous, and authors will receive feedback as soon as possible, to spread out the review work for the program committee and give authors feedback more quickly. This flexible submission timeline encourages early submissions. Cut-off dates are set to ensure that all contributions are reviewed and accepted in time for the workshop. Although authors are encouraged to submit their works as early as possible to benefit from this continuous review process, submissions are still welcome until the last cut-off date. 

== Important dates (TENTATIVE) == 

- 1st Paper submission cut-off date: 15 June 2025 

- 2nd Paper submission cut-off date: 20 July 2025 

- 3rd Paper submission cut-off date: 05 September 2025 

- Notification of acceptance: (continuously) as soon as possible after submissions, and no later than the subsequent cut-off date. While, for the 3rd cut-off, the notification will be on *October 5th* 

- Camera-Ready copy due: 15 October 2025 

- Workshop starts: 25-30 October 2025 (exact date TBD)

== Committees ==

=== Program Chairs ===

* Pierangela Bruno, University of Calabria

* Francesco Calimeri, University of Calabria

* Francesco Cauteruccio, University of Salerno

* Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

* Fabio Stella, Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca

* Giorgio Terracina, University of Calabria

=== Program Committee ===

TBA