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CALL FOR PAPERS
AAAI-17 Workshop on AI and OR for Social Good (AIORSocGood-17)
https://sites.google.com/site/aiorsocgood17
San Francisco, CA, USA, 4/5 February 2017
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The purpose of the workshop is to explore and promote the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) for purposes of social good. There has been strong historical interest from both the AI and OR communities on this topic with a burst of AI activity in recent years in topics such as smart grids and optimized transport systems (both as part of a greater computational sustainability effort) while the OR community has long supported areas such as Public Sector OR (PSOR).
The workshop will place a special emphasis on bringing together members of the AI and OR communities who have been actively involved in addressing challenge problems for social good as well as the AI and OR technologies required to support their solution.
Workshop topics:
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Applications areas include (but are not limited to)
* sustainable cities
* smart government and social services
* public service organizations
* emergency preparedness
* disaster response
* public health
* humanitarian programs
along with any AI and OR techniques applied to these areas including (but not limited to)
* machine learning and data science
* constraint optimization and constraint programming
* planning and scheduling (under uncertainty)
* computational economics
Important Dates:
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* Papers submission: November 4, 2016 (contact organizers regarding late submissions)
* Notifications of acceptance: November 18, 2016 (for on-time submissions)
* Camera-ready to AAAI: December 8, 2016
* Workshop date: February 4 or 5, 2017 (one day)
Submission Procedure:
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We welcome previously unsubmitted work, papers submitted to the main AAAI conference, and papers reporting research already published provided they align well with the workshop topic.
Three types of submissions are solicited:
- full-length papers (up to 6 pages + 1 page for references in AAAI format)
- challenge or position papers (2 pages + 1 page for references in AAAI format)
- already published papers (1 page: an abstract in AAAI format with a link to the full paper)
Paper Submissions should be made through the workshop EasyChair web site
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiorsocgood17
Organisers:
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* Scott Sanner, University of Toronto (ssanner@mie.utoronto.ca)
* Thomas G. Dietterich, Oregon State University
* Stephen F. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
* Pascal Van Hentenryck, University of Michigan
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Dionne M. Aleman, PhD, PEng
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
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