COMSUST 2015 - Workshop on Computational Sustainability

AAAI-15 Workshop on Computational Sustainability
Austin, Texas, USA
https://sites.google.com/site/aaai15compsust/
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: October 14, 2014 at 11:59 pm UTC
Author notification: November 14, 2014
Camera-ready papers due to AAAI: November 25, 2014
Workshop date: January 25 or 26, 2015
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Computational sustainability is a fast-growing interdisciplinary field that aims to apply techniques from computer science, information science, operations research, applied mathematics, and statistics to problems that balance environmental, economic, and societal needs for sustainable development. Computational sustainability brings together researchers from computational domains and disciplines as diverse as ecology, natural resource management, biodiversity, climate science, biological and environmental engineering, and resource economics.
The goal of this workshop is facilitate the exchange of ideas, presentation of recent or preliminary results, and discussion of promising directions for the use of computational methods and in particular AI to tackle a variety of challenging sustainability problems.
Call for Contributions
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We welcome the submission of papers related to the use of AI techniques for sustainability problems, such as:
* Biodiversity conservation
* Energy
* Urban planning
* Climate change
* Sustainable transportation
* Natural resource management
* Sustainable development
The computational problems that arise in sustainability domains relate to a wide spectrum of AI topics and techniques such as but not limited to:
* Graphical models
* Probabilistic inference
* Statistical learning
* Data and graph mining
* Constrained and stochastic optimization
* Decision making under uncertainty
* Spatio-temporal modeling
* Network science
Submission
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We solicit two kinds of submissions:
* Papers reporting new results, preliminary work, or recently published work in the field of computational sustainability (up to 4 pages plus references). Submissions reporting results that have already been published or presented at another venue should clearly indicate so.
* Position Papers (up to 2 pages) reporting preliminary results, describing an open computational sustainability problem, proposing ideas for bringing in new computational methods into the field, or summarizing the focus areas of a group working on computational sustainability.
Papers must be formatted in the AAAI two-column, camera-ready style. Papers should be submitted by email in pdf format to aaai2015compsust-AT-gmail.com. Oral presentations and posters will be selected from among the submissions after peer reviews.
Invited Speakers
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Manish Marwah, HP Labs
Claire Monteleoni, George Washington University
Milind Tambe, University of Southern California
Workshop Organizers
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Bistra Dilkina, Georgia Tech.
Stefano Ermon, Stanford University
Rebecca Hutchinson, Oregon State
Dan Sheldon, UMass Amherst and Mount Holyoke College