Call for Contributions

This workshop intends to be a forum to bring together researchers in classical infrastructure sciences together with the AI community.

Our objectives are twofold: 

1. Fostering a Synergistic Dialogue: We aim to establish an intellectual forum where cutting-edge empirical and theoretical advancements in AI applied to CIs can be shared and scrutinized. This exchange of knowledge is not limited to neural network paradigms but extends to a broad spectrum of AI methodologies, including Optimization, Planning, Search, and Hybrid approaches. 

2. Identifying and Tackling Novel Challenges: The workshop is an incubator for identifying emerging problems where AI can be instrumental. It is a platform for collaborative problem-solving, where the brightest minds from academia, industry, and governmental sectors unite to address the multifaceted challenges facing CIs.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to

• AI/ML Methods and approaches for:

  • Energy Generation and/or Transmission 

  • Transportation

  • Hospitals / Emergency Services

  • Internet connectivity

  • Defense

  • Chemical Industry

  • Supply Chain

  • Nuclear energy generation/nonproliferation

  • Waste Management

  • Water Systems

• AI in Cybersecurity of Critical Systems

• Reliability of Critical Systems

• Simulations/Datasets for applications in Critical Infrastructure

• AI for detection and/or repair of service interruption

• Fundamental Research on AI/ML methods that fit well with real-world challenges faced by CI.

• Open Challenges on CI where AI is believed to be able to provide a feasible solution.

Papers can be submitted in 3 categories

• Research Paper: Papers with a maximum of 7+2 pages (body+references), containing relevant related papers, proposals, and initial experiments. (Rejected papers from IJCAI-24 and original full submissions should be sent in this category)

• Work in Progress: Extended abstract between 2 and 4 pages describing relevant work in progress.

• Highlight Paper: Extended abstract between 2 and 3 pages summarizing full papers that have been published or accepted for publication in archival venues at most 2 years before the workshop deadline. (Accepted papers from IJCAI-24 can be submitted to this track, as well as other conference main tracks and journals. You cannot submit to this track papers you submitted/published in other non-archival workshops)

Formatting guidelines

For all categories, the default IJCAI LaTeX style must be used. The original LaTeX template is be available at https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit

Submission form

https://openreview.net/group?id=ijcai.org/IJCAI/2024/Workshop/AIforCI 

Important dates

Call for papers open March 13, 2024

Submission Deadline April 26, 2024.  May 10th, 2024

Author Notification May 21, 2024 Jun 6th

Workshop August 4, 2024