The AI4RAILS 2025 workshop is the 6th edition of the series, the 2025 edition specifically addresses the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies in trustworthy, dependable, and safe applications for rail freight and passenger systems.

More information, submission guidelines, and contacts are available on the workshop website.

*** Topics ***

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- AI for railway safety, availability, reliability, and security
- Transferability to railways of AI approaches from other sectors
- Autonomous and cooperative train driving, including virtual coupling
- Automatic detection of signals, pedestrians, and obstacles
- Predictive maintenance and defect detection in railways
- AI for railway traffic planning and management
- Adversarial challenges in AI with a focus on railway case-studies
- Cognitive Digital Twins and Resource Allocation for railways
- Run-time model checking and AI with a focus on railway case studies
- Explainable and trustworthy AI in railway applications
- Certification and compliance standards for autonomous trains

*** Important Dates ***

Paper submission opening date: Dec 20th, 2024
Paper submission deadline: Jan 10th, 2025
Author notification: Jan 31st, 2025
Camera-ready paper: Mar 5th, 2025

***Submission and Publication***

AI4RAILS 2025 invites original papers not submitted elsewhere, presenting original contributions. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. They will be evaluated based on originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop.

Accepted papers will be included in the conference Supplementary Proceedings managed by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and submitted to Xplore and the CSDL.
Submitted papers must be written in English, follow the IEEE two-column format, and have a length between 4 and 6 pages, including figures, tables, and references.

More information, submission guidelines, templates, and contacts are available on the workshop website.

*** CONTACT ***

Francesco Flammini, francesco.flammini@ieee.org
Valeria Vittorini, valeria.vittorini@unina.it