[agents] CFP: IJCAI Computational Sustainability (CompSus) Track

[Alex Rogers]

Computational Sustainability (CompSus) Track

CALL FOR PAPERS

Computational Sustainability aims to apply computational techniques to the balancing of environmental, economic, and societal needs, in order to support sustainable development and a sustainable future. Research in computational sustainability is inherently interdisciplinary: It brings together computational sciences and other fields such as environmental sciences, biology, economics, and sociology. AI techniques and methodologies can be instrumental in addressing sustainability problems and questions, for example to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the way we manage and allocate our natural and societal resources. This will also enrich and transform AI, by providing new challenges.
Sustainability domains include the following:

 *   Natural resources and the environment (such as water, atmosphere, oceans, forest, land, etc.)
 *   Economics and human behavior (such as well-being, poverty, diseases, over-population, etc.)
 *   Energy resources (for example, renewable energy, smart grid, and so on.)
 *   Human-built systems and land use (such as transportation, cities, buildings, agriculture, etc.)
 *   Climate (such as climate prediction, impact of and on climate, etc.)

This special track is dedicated to papers concerned with innovative notions, models, algorithms, techniques, methodologies, and systems, in order to address problems in computational sustainability. Papers can range from formal analysis to applied research. Papers describing interesting sustainability problems and data sets, or papers proposing general challenges and competitions for computational sustainability, are also welcome.

The CompSust track welcomes three types of articles:

 *   Technical papers, showing how AI can be instrumental in addressing sustainability questions;
 *   Emerging computational sustainability applications
 *   Data challenge papers providing the description of a new sustainability problem as well as the corresponding data set to be made available to the AI community.

Technical papers must follow the instructions given in the general call for technical conference papers. Dataset papers should be no longer than four pages in length, included figures and references. Please indicate that your paper is a dataset paper or an emerging application paper by selecting this paper type in the submission site.

Submission Rules

Submission Link: http://ijcai15-cs.confmaster.net/

IJCAI 2015 Computational Sustainability Track chairs:

Carla Gomes (gomes at cs.cornell.edu<mailto:gomes at cs.cornell.edu><mailto:gomes at cs.cornell.edu>)


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Prof. Alex Rogers
Agents, Interaction and Complexity  Group
Electronics & Computer Science
University of Southampton
Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
Web: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/acr/
Email : acr at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:acr at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Telephone : +44 (0) 23 8059 9008
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