Time is running out to submit papers for the AI & Sustainability Workshop being held in Montreal in August to coincide with IJCAI 25. The deadline for submissions is 9th May 2025.
AI has a potential to help and empower humans in many ways. However, AI and especially generative AI also produces some negative effects. Sustainability is a complex topic that first requires deep understanding before applying the adequate techniques. Often solving complex problems involves using hybrid AI architecture. Knowledge and experience are also important for “smart and green” problem solving.
Today we have to face and try to fix the environmental challenges in the growing cities, industry, agriculture, energy, water and other resource management. Energy life cycle, optimization, and combination of renewable energies for sustainable powering and heating can be improved applying also Knowledge Management principles. Raising prices of natural gas drives growth in renewable energies. Industries like steel, glass, chemical manufacturing sites are they are looking for AI based control systems for the Grid connected micro-grids. Circular energy explores the heat generated by data centres and the waste steam for a sustainable environment as like creating fish farms or agricultural sites, or recreating cooling water, which are additional processes that demand AI-based scheduling using meteorological data. Clean energy solutions require evolution of manufacturing processes and holistic approach supported by rigorous analytics, high quality data and the recognition of infrastructure dependencies. In order to increase sustainability in agriculture, it is vital to incorporate green technologies into farming, e.g., renewable generation. However, there are significant challenges associated with enhancing the sustainability of agriculture.
Related to technology itself the challenge is producing smarter and greener hardware, software and applications.
This workshop follows the previously organized AI4KM on IJCAI15 – 19. It evolved to AI4KMES on IJCAI 20 and 21 and to AI4S held on ECAI23. It will focus on various ways of using AI to address effectively the sustainability issues including 17 UN SD goals.
The workshop topics include (but are not limited to):
- Complex problem solving
- Neuro-symbolic AI
- Conceptual modelling
- Knowledge discovery in multimodal data
- Decision support systems
- Optimisation of various resources
- Managing the best practice
- Risk management
- Learning systems including serious games
- Human-AI collaboration
- Knowledge mining in social networks
- Distributed knowledge
- Knowledge management applied to ecodesign
- Creativity enhancing systems
- Support of innovation and eco-innovation process
- Intelligent assistants
- Renewable energy integration
- AI for agriculture and agroecology,
- Automation in renewable energy generation and distribution
- Decision modelling in agriculture, and agent-based and multi-agent systems in sustainability
Important Dates
- Full Paper submission deadline: May 9, 2025
- Author notification: June 6, 2025
- Camera-Ready submission: June 30, 2025
- Workshop date: August 16-17, 2025
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