Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

With recent technological advances, AI is a major enabler in various fields including sustainable development.  AI methods enable sustainability goals and provide value along all of its dimensions: economic, social, environmental, technical, and individual.  AI has improved the ability to tackle complexity and improve understanding of important causative variables and sources, as well as provide tools to affect the outcomes.  The contribution of AI applications to the overall global GDP is expected to be significant over the next decade. Some key areas that are expected to particularly benefit include: transportation and urban development, water resources management, energy efficiency, agriculture and climate research.    We welcome papers that focus on the application of novel methods in AI for knowledge representation, learning including deep learning and neural networks, reasoning and search, as well as forecasting.  Case studies of applications of data science methods and visualization tools, particularly open source, are of interest as they inform research, policy making and practice in sustainability.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

1. Novel applications of learning and neural networks in particular in the areas of transportation and urban development, water resources management, energy efficiency, agriculture and climate research
2. AI systems that leverage domain knowledge in the field of Sustainability
3. Knowledge representation, search and analysis
4. Explainable AI (XAI) and visualization methods for understanding causal variables
5. AI enabled IoT for measurement and response at the Edge
6. Rule based systems
7. Open Source AI tools and systems for Sustainability
8. Open Data projects for research
9. Cloud enablement of AI for Sustainability
10. Tools for Human/AI partnership

Dr. Prabhakar Kudva
Prof. Jean-Claude Thill
Guest Editors

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• Artificial Intelligence
• Sustainability
• Urban Development
• Water Resources Management
• Energy Efficiency
• Agriculture
• Deep Learning
• Data Science
• Visualization
• Explainable Machine Learning
• Climate Research