FLAIRS-31 Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Industry

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Industry

Special Track at FLAIRS-31, Melbourne, Florida USA

Organizer:

Chayan Chakrabarti, GE, Email

November 20, 2017 Paper submission deadline
January 22, 2018 Paper acceptance notification
February 5, 2018 Poster abstract submission
February 12, 2018 Poster abstract notification
February 19, 2018 AUTHOR registration
February 26, 2018 Camera ready version due
April 9, 2018 Early registration
May 14, 2018 Standard registration
May 21-23, 2018 Conference
Location: Melbourne, Florida, USA
All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by AAAI.

What is the Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Industry track about?

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Industry is focused on AI-related research and applications outside of academia. Researchers working in AI-related businesses and industries are highly encouraged to submit interesting and original work. They may discuss insightful findings and developments but are not expected to reveal proprietary aspects of the study (simply reference sensitive material with the term proprietary in parentheses).

What is unique about this track?

AI applications in industry and business present unique challenges. Datasets are incomplete, inconsistent, noisy, or of poor quality. AI models have to incorporate domain-specific knowledge and are constrained by business demands. Several design compromises are required to effectively leverage AI techniques. Applying well-understood AI algorithms to new problems reveals new limitations of the algorithms and leads to better understanding of the algorithms. It also enables better-designed and newer algorithms. Techniques developed by industry researchers to meet these challenges generalize into AI best practices for real world problems. This track provides a venue for discussing these unique challenges.

What is the GOAL of the track?

The goal of the track is to showcase AI-related research that has practical applications in solving important problems in the business world. This will expand public interest in AI by demonstrating that it can be commercially valuable in addition to being an area of active research in academia. As AI techniques become mainstream in the industry, this track will promote the development of AI best practices.

Who might be interested?

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Industry special track may be of particular interest to scientists and engineers working in business and industry, including those who are not exclusively involved in research. Students performing research internships in industry or involved in practical AI-related research at their universities are also encouraged to submit.

What kind of studies will be of interest?

We strongly encourage studies associated with the interests of business or industry that involve, include, or focus on 1) the identification of real-world problems 2) the formulation of real-world problems in terms of AI-inspired models 3) the investigation, evaluation, and assessment of any range of AI algorithms, techniques and approaches and 4) results, resolutions, solutions, suggestions, and future directions. Specific insights may include but are not limited to:

Generalizable best practices from applying AI to a specific real-world domain
Handling noisy, missing, inconsistent, incorrect, or poor quality data
Incorporating specific domain knowledge to boost traditional AI algorithms
Re-designing traditional AI algorithms to meet specific business demands
Comparison of several classes of AI algorithms applied to a real-world problem
Applications that highlight the strength or weakness of a traditional AI algorithm

Note that we invite original papers (i.e. work not previously submitted, in submission, or to be submitted to another conference during the reviewing process).

Submission Guidelines

Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (up to 4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 20, 2018. For FLAIRS-31, the 2018 conference, the reviewing is a double blind process. Author names and affiliations should be blanked out on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can be accessed through the main conference web site (http://www.flairs-31.info/). Authors should indicate the Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Industry Track for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. FLAIRS requires that there be at least one full author registration per paper.

Program Committee

Program Committee

Chayan Chakrabarti, GE, Email
Saurabh Thapliyal, GE, Email
Thomas B. Jones, Hyperthesis, Email
Nikhil Gulati, GE, Email
Adi Hajj-Ahmad, GE, Email

Additional Information

Questions regarding the Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Industry Special Track should be addressed to the track co-chair:

Chayan Chakrabarti, GE, Email

Questions regarding Special Tracks should be addressed to Roman Bartak, Charles University, Czech Republic, Email

Conference Chair:

Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University, Email

Program Co-Chairs:

Keith Brawner, Army Research Laboratory, Email
Vasile Rus, University of Memphis, Email

Special Tracks Coordinator::

Roman Barták, Charles University, Czech Republic , Email

Invited Speakers

To be announced.

Conference Websites

Paper submission site: follow the link for submissions at http://www.flairs-31.info

FLAIRS-31 conference web page: http://www.flairs-31.info

Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS):http://www.flairs.com