[agents] CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue: 'Intelligent and Autonomous Systems in Government'

[Dasgupta, Prithviraj CIV USN NRL WASHINGTON DC (USA)]

CALL FOR PAPERS
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IEEE Intelligent Systems

Special Issue: Intelligent and Autonomous Systems in Government
Submissions Due: August 31, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based autonomous and intelligent systems are transforming human lives in unprecedented ways. AI-based projects implemented by national and local governments play a key role in enabling the widespread deployment of AI towards improving the quality of human life, as well as in developing and shaping AI policy towards the betterment of human society. Government projects present some unique challenges including deploying at scales of millions of users at national and/or regional levels, ensuring fair and responsible use of the technology, guaranteeing accessibility across different economic, demographic and socio-cultural levels, and providing methods to transparently measure and report to the public metrics related to the technology's accountability, adoption and impact. Research methods and techniques developed in academia and industry that form the underlying technology in many government projects are usually not designed with many of these factors in mind, and, might have to be rebuilt or redesigned before they can be integrated in government projects. Our special issue invites articles that could help bridge this technology gap to inform current and future researchers and practitioners with experiences, challenges, best-practices, success stories and lessons learned from AI projects done in partnership with and/or to support international, national, regional and local government initiatives. Articles describing planned and in-progress projects, from different phases of the project life-cycle including planning, design, implementation, evaluation, deployment and maintenance are welcome. Overviews of fully-deployed tools and systems, expository articles, and, blue-sky and visionary papers on the role of government in shaping the future of AI and AI policy are also invited.
Potential topics for submissions include, but are not limited to the following:

  *   Intelligent autonomous systems and software tools for different government-related applications including;
     *   transportation and civilian infrastructure;
     *   medicine, healthcare and emergency response;
     *   defence and international peacekeeping;
     *   cyber-security;
     *   agriculture, environment and natural resources management;
  *   Multi-domain and cross-cutting operations enabled by government projects across international and inter-regional boundaries
  *   Fair and responsible use of AI in government projects
  *   Sustainable and energy-aware government projects enabled through AI
  *   Human-machine interactions and human-centric AI design for government projects
  *   Legal and ethical aspects of AI in government policies


IMPORTANT DATES
August 31, 2024: Manuscript submission deadline for authors
December 30, 2024: Reviews and accept/reject decisions sent to authors
January 31, 2025: Camera-ready versions of manuscripts due from accepted authors
March/April, 2025: Special Issue Publication

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 6,000 words, including tables and figures counting as 300 words each. Articles should have no more than 20 references for regular papers and 30 references for survey papers. The abstract should not exceed 150 words.

*** Authors should mention the special issue title 'Intelligent and Autonomous  Systems in Government' on the cover letter accompanying their submission.

For more information: https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/is/intelligent-and-autonomous-systems-in-government

Author guidelines and manuscript templates: https://www.computer.org/publications/author-resources
Submission site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/is-cs

Special Issue Guest Editors:
- Dr. Prithviraj Dasgupta, U. S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Dr. Li Li, Defence Research and Development Canada
- Dr. Damian Marriott, (former) Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia
- Dr. Priya Narayanan, U.S. DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA.


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