Artificial Intelligence (AI), including Generative AI, and Operations Research/Management Science (OR/MS) offer proven but distinct approaches to decision-making with data and models. However, challenges persist in applying AI and OR/MS to vital socio-technical environments where human and artificial systems interact. These include the need to combine AI and OR/MS for the best solution, aligning models with human values and promoting trust, and the expertise and time required for their application, which limit wider use.
"Combining AI and ORMS for Better Trustworthy Decision Making" is a new bridge program supported by AAAI and INFORMS whose goal is to unite AI and OR/MS practitioners and researchers to improve trustworthy decision-making in key socio-technical areas such as supply chains, healthcare, crisis management, homeland security, robotics, wildlife conservation, medicine, transportation, and finance. The primary goals of this bridge are to equip OR/MS and AI researchers with better tools by familiarizing them with each other's techniques and domains and bring the disciplines together to advance the research and applications at the intersection of AI and OR/MS so as to improve decision-making.
This bridge program will be kicked off with a two day event at AAAI 2025, which will include a half day of invited talks and a tutorial on using OR/MS for decision-making; a half day of submitted presentations and posters on applying AI and/or OR/MS and state-of-the-art research on their integration for trustworthy decision-making; a half day of presentations on future research directions and key domains for AI and OR/MS integration; and a half day of discussions to refine research priorities and focus use cases, and define next steps. A primary goal of this two-day event will be to define research priorities and real world decision making problems which will drive the work for the rest of the bridge.
We invite all interested students, practitioners, and researchers to attend this event, and encourage the submission of one or more presentation proposals. Each presentation proposal should be about one or more of the following:
- An application of AI and/or OR/MS (individually or together) to decision-making.
- Existing research integrating AI and OR/MS for decision-making.
- Proposals for new, important research directions that integrate AI and OR/MS for decision-making.
- Proposals for key decision-making domains and use cases where AI and OR/MS should be jointly applied, with a rationale for the combined approach.
- Relevant survey presentation.
Submissions can range from a one-page abstract to a full journal article and may include work at any level of maturity, as well as previously published work. Submissions should be made by November 25, 2024 through the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiorms2025
Previously unpublished mature application work will be invited to submit to an accelerated review process for a special issue of the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics (we are working to have a similar arrangement for mature research work with the INFORMS Journal on Computing - please check the web site for updates)
For additional information, please visit the bridge web site at https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-25/bridge-ai-orms/, or contact the bridge organizing committee – see below.
Bridge Organizing Committee:
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Radhika Kulkarni
2022 INFORMS President
VP, Advanced Analytics R&D (retired), SAS Institute Inc.
Durham NC
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