<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Dear all,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">We are organizing a workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good at IJCAI 2021. Please consider submitting your work to this venue. CFP below!</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""> </font></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></b></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Apologies for cross-posting!</font></b><br></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">3rd International Virtual IJCAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good (AI4SG 2021)</font></b></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Website</b>: <a href="https://amulyayadav.github.io/AI4SG2021/" target="_blank">https://amulyayadav.github.io/AI4SG2021/</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Submission Link</b>: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai4sg2021" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(29,65,159)">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai4sg2021</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Important Dates:</font></b></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Paper Submission Deadline: May 10th, 2021</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 25th, 2021</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Workshop Date: August 21st, 2021 </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 9pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Scope</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(127,136,143)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The field of Artificial Intelligence stands at an inflection point, and there could be many different directions in which the future of AI research could unfold. Accordingly, there is a growing interest to ensure that current and future AI research is used in a responsible manner for the benefit of humanity (i.e., for social good). To achieve this goal, a wide range of perspectives and contributions are needed, spanning the full spectrum from fundamental research to sustained deployments in the real-world.</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 9pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(127,136,143)">This workshop will explore how AI research can contribute to solving challenging problems faced by current-day societies. For example, what role can AI research play in promoting health, sustainable development and infrastructure security? How can AI initiatives be used to achieve consensus among a set of negotiating self-interested entities (e.g., finding resolutions to trade talks between countries)? To address such questions, this workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners across different strands of AI research and a wide range of important real-world application domains. The objective is to share the current state of research and practice, explore directions for future work, and create opportunities for collaboration. In addition, the workshop will place a special emphasis on highlighting AI approaches for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. The organizers believe that AI research has an important role to play in providing unique insights about the pandemic and developing targeted responses; we encourage submissions from both AI researchers as well as epidemiologists, health policy researchers, and other domain experts who are interested in engaging with the IJCAI community.</span><br></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 9pt 10pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 9pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Topics of Interest</font></b></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 9pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We are interested in a broad range of research topics, both foundational and applied. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</font></span></p><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 2em;padding:0px 0px 0px 1em;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:initial;color:rgb(127,136,143)"><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Applications of Learning and Optimization in Societally Beneficial Domains</font></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">AI Approaches for COVID-19</font></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Real-world applications of game theory for security</font></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Cybersecurity</font></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Security applications of machine learning</font></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Foundations of game theory for security</font></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Adversarial/robust learning</font></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Fake news control</font></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Privacy protection</font></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Agent/human interaction for preference elicitation and optimization</font></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Protection against environmental crime</font></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Explainable Artificial Intelligence</font></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">AI Environmental Sustainability</font></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;padding:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">AI for Democracy in the Developing World</font></li></ul><p style="margin:0in 0in 9pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Submission Details</b></font></span></p><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(61,68,73)"><font face="arial, sans-se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