<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Hemant Purohit</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:hemant@knoesis.org" target="_blank">hemant@knoesis.org</a>></span><br></div><br><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<br><br></div><div dir="ltr">Given the recent developments in the availability of big data and computational power of Artificial Intelligence technologies are continuing to revolutionize several domains, they are opening up new opportunities and challenges. We are organizing a symposium with three specific disciplines where AI could be used for social good: <br><br></div><div dir="ltr">- Humanitarian Relief and Development<br>- Planetary Intelligence from Spaceborne Imagery<br>- Responsible AI in Healthcare<div><br></div><div>Call for Papers: </div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem;font-weight:500;line-height:1.2;font-size:2.5rem;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";text-align:center;background-color:rgb(0,123,255)">AI for Social Good - AAAI Fall Symposium 2019</h1><p class="m_-8430632310094141742m_-2009113701853221390gmail-lead" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-size:1.25rem;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";text-align:center;background-color:rgb(0,123,255)">Sponsored by the <a href="https://aaai.org/" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;color:inherit" target="_blank">Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence</a></p><p class="m_-8430632310094141742m_-2009113701853221390gmail-lead" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-size:1.25rem;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";text-align:center;background-color:rgb(0,123,255)">Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, Virginia, USA</p><p class="m_-8430632310094141742m_-2009113701853221390gmail-lead" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-size:1.25rem;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";text-align:center;background-color:rgb(0,123,255)">November 7 – 9, 2019</p></div><div><br></div>This symposium solicits paper submissions from participants (2-6 pages) in either of the three disciplines described below:<br><br><b>Humanitarian Relief and Development</b>: Detecting and predicting how a crisis or conflict could develop, analyzing the impact of catastrophes in a cyber-physical society, and assisting in disaster response as well as resource allocation are of utmost importance, and the advances in AI can be utilized in many such tasks. This track will focus on all aspects of humanitarian relief operations supported by the novel use of AI ranging from enabling missing persons to be located, leveraging crowdsourced data to provide early warning for rapid response to emergencies, increasing situational awareness, to logistics and supply chain management.<br><br><b>Planetary Intelligence from Spaceborne Imagery</b>: We receive petabytes of image data from satellites every day that observes atmospheric processes, vegetation, and water bodies. Due to limited data assimilation techniques in practice, only a small fraction of these are used for extracting useful, actionable insights about our planet. This track will focus on computer vision and machine learning techniques applied on different types of imagery (satellite, drone, still and video capture, RGB, multispectral, hyperspectral, combination of imaging with other modalities) to address practical applications in the environmental and social sciences such as climate and weather prediction, urban planning, transportation systems, agricultural monitoring, and socio-economic development analysis.<br><br><b>Responsible AI in Healthcare</b>: Healthcare data, in general, is characterized by several data problems such as missing data, lack of standardization, incompleteness, etc. which hinders the deployment of solutions which are relevant to real-world use cases. Moreover, many AI solutions in healthcare have the "last mile problem" to deliver a practical solution. These have broader implications in the context of fairness, explainability, and transparency. This track will focus on a broad range of AI healthcare applications and challenges encountered including but not limited to: automation bias, prescriptive AI models, explainability, privacy and security, transparency, decision rights, and so on, especially in the context of deployment of AI in healthcare.<br><br>Abstracts of the following flavors are sought:<br><ul><li>Research ideas</li><li>Case studies (or deployed projects)</li><li>Review papers</li><li>Best practice papers</li><li>Lessons learned</li></ul>Please submit your papers through the AAAI EasyChair site at <a href="https://ai-for-socialgood.github.io/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ai-for-socialgood.github.io/</a> (choose 'AI for Social Good' track). The format is the standard double-column AAAI Proceedings Style. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Some will be selected for spotlight talks, and some for the poster session.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><b>Important Dates</b><br><ul><li>Paper Submission Deadline: Jul 23, 2019</li><li>Online Registration Open: Aug 9, 2019</li><li>Paper Notifications: Aug 16, 2019</li><li>Camera Ready Deadline: Sep 13, 2019</li><li>Registration Deadline: Sep 20, 2019</li><li>Symposium Dates: Nov 7-9, 2019</li></ul><div><div><b>Organizers</b><br></div><br>Track 1: Humanitarian Relief and Development<br>Dr. Hemant Purohit, George Mason University (Chair)<br>Dr. James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<br>Dr. Mayank Kejriwal, University of Southern California<br>Dr. Oshani Seneviratne, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<br><br>Track 2: Planetary Intelligence from Spaceborne Imagery<br>Dr. Kalai Ramea, Palo Alto Research Center (Chair)<br>Dr. Raja Bala, Palo Alto Research Center<br>Dr. Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Colorado State University<br>Dr. Stefano Ermon, Stanford University<br><br>Track 3: Responsible AI in Healthcare<br>Dr. Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, University of Washington and KenSci Inc. (Chair)<br>Dr. Carly Eckert, University of Washington and KenSci Inc.<br>Dr. Tae Hyun Hwang, Cleveland Clinic<br>Dr. Ankur Teredesai, University of Washington and KenSci Inc.<div><br></div><div>Please consider participating in this symposium. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards, </div><div>Hemant et al. </div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_-8430632310094141742m_-2009113701853221390gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hemant Purohit<br><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Asst. 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