[AISWorld] AI4IS at EPIA 2024 - Call for Late Breaking Papers | Deadline: June, 2

[Filipe Portela]

(apologies for cross-posting)

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CFP: Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Society (AI4IS at EPIA-2024)
Thematic track of the 23rd Portuguese Conference on Artificial 
Intelligence (EPIA 2024)
September 3-6, 2024, Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
Webpage: https://epia2024.pt/
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IMPORTANT DATES
Late Breaking Papers: June, 2, 2024
Notification of paper acceptance: June 20, 2024
Camera-ready papers deadline: July 15, 2024
Conference dates: September 3-6, 2024

IMPORTANT NEWS
- LNCS/LNAI Proceedings (Springer)
- A selection of best papers will be invited to fast-track journal 
submissions
- Special issue at Springer (Q2) with selected papers*

INTRODUCTION
Societies and industries face many challenges to be more intelligent and 
sustainable. In this context, many good practices and approaches are 
being explored, and numerous new contributions are being generated 
daily. Many good practices and procedures are being investigated, and 
several unique contributions emerge without benefitting from sufficient 
visibility. The track "Artificial Intelligence for Industry and 
Societies" wants to overcome precisely this gap. An intelligent society 
looks to citizens' problems and tries to maximize the use of 
high-potential innovative technologies by collaboration across multiple 
sectors so as to create more efficient, intelligent, and adaptable 
services, and, ultimately, to enable prosperity and resilience. This is 
where the concept of smart cities comes into play because they are 
perfectly placed to coalesce smart infrastructures with human needs 
through community services. Connected and efficient cities and 
communities can lead to informed, engaged, and contented citizens.
However, in order to have an innovative society, intelligent industries 
are also required. The concept of Industry 4.0 has been known in 
connection to the digital transformation of manufacturing-production and 
related sectors, and in value-creation processes, with Artificial 
Intelligence (AI) playing a vital role through the automation of 
processes, prediction and reduction of errors and failures. However, we 
are now witnessing post-Industry 4.0 developments in Europe and around 
the World, as led by eco-innovation and green (re-)industrialization", 
driven by the transition to sustainable development. AI will have an 
even stronger role in these, as complex multi-disciplinary projects need 
its support.
In this evolution, industry and society must be holding hands, and this 
is a truly multi-disciplinary endeavour whereby AI is a key hinge and 
facilitator between technologies, people, goods, and services. The 
present conference track seeks to bring together researchers and 
professionals, and further enable them to explore new solutions and 
applications across society and Industry: novelties or/and best 
practices to be implemented in the real world. The event steps into a 
new era of technical communication by showing how scientific knowledge 
can be transferred to society and applied in the Industry using Data 
Science and AI approaches in topics like "Business, Industry and Smart 
Factory" and "Sustainable and Smart Cities and Societies". IA4IS is open 
to receiving and selecting several high-quality contributions in these 
two areas, especially propositions related to cognitive computing 
platforms and applications, including technologies and infrastructures 
related to AI, machine learning, big data processing and data analytics.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Innovative and exciting works are welcome in areas including but not 
limited to:

Business, Industry and Smart Factory
- Advanced data visualisation and data management techniques and solutions
- Advanced interactive technologies, including augmented/virtual reality
- Advanced mechanical engineering technologies with Machine Learning
- AI-assisted designs and process simulations - Artificial intellect
- AI for Sustainability (e.g. LCA, ESR)
- Artificial Intelligence solutions and applications in Industry (e.g. 
Energy, Metal, Textil, Garments, others)
- Augmented reality with artificial Intelligence
- Authentication, data security and protection
- Automation and intelligent robotics
- Controlling textile materials using AI
- Cyber-physical systems (CPS) with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) - Internet of Things modules, 
platforms and applications applied to Industry
- Minimizing production scrap
- Minimizing the use of energy and raw materials
- Mimimizing CO2 and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
- Mobile and wearable devices with AI modules
- Optimizing melting, heat treatment and production process parameters 
using - data collection, analysis, and interpretation
- Optimizing the design, development and production processes of 
textiles and Fibers using AI
- Quality Control Systems
- Scrap management systems
- Smart factory, production technologies and systems
- Smart sensors and biosensors
- Sorting technologies in scrap recycling

Sustainable and Smart Cities and Societies
- Big data, open data, and analytical tools
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) solutions
- Disaster management
- Internet of Things (IoT) for smart cities
- Responsible innovation
- Smart buildings
- Smart economy
- Smart energy
- Smart garbage and PAYT
- Smart governance
- Smart grids infrastructures
- Smart Living, Wellbeing, and healthcare
- Smart people
- Smart sensing
- Smart Transportations and Urban Mobility
- Technological infrastructure for smart cities support
- Web/mobile solutions with AI

PAPER SUBMISSION
All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA'2024 
submission Website. Submissions must be original and can be of two 
types: regular (full-length) papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages 
in length, whereas short papers should not exceed six (6) pages. Each 
submission will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the 
Program Committee. The reviewing process is double-blind. The 
best-accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by 
Springer in the LNAI series (previous EPIA proceedings were indexed by 
the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, DBLP and ACM digital library). 
The remaining accepted papers will be published in the local proceedings 
with ISBN.

*Authors of the best papers presented at the AI4IS track of EPIA will be 
invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for a Springer 
Specia Issue or at other EPIA Fast-Track submission process

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Filipe Portela (cfp at dsi.uminho.pt)
Sherin M. Moussa
Teresa Guarda
Ioan M. Ciumasu