Springer FAIEMA 2023 will provide a platform for researchers, leaders, decision-makers, and policymakers to share their research and insights on the forefronts of AI. This conference is a response to the growing need among those working on artificial intelligence in academia, business and industry, and the public sector to explore opportunities in this constantly evolving field.

#FAIEMA2023 - Springer 1st International Conference on Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Multidisciplinary Applications;

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Important Links:
Conference Website: https://www.faiema.org/
Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=faiema2023


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Venue
The conference will be held in Athens, Greece.
Room 1: "Ioannis Drakopoulos" Amphitheatre, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The “Ioannis Drakopoulos” Amphitheatre, the old “Medicine School Amphitheatre”, is located in the Main Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Propylaea (Panepistimiou St. 30).
Room 2: "Kostis Palamas" Hall, National and the Kapodistrian University of Athens. The Hall is located in the neo-classical building (Akadimias 48) that was erected in 1857 and named after the famous Greek poet Kostis Palamas, who acted as General Secretary of the University (1897-1928). It was renovated in 1981 and in 1985, the building’s current function was inaugurated to house the University Community Hall.

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Conference Dates:
25th - 26th September 2023


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Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 5th July
Notification: 1st August
Camera Ready: 15th August
Registration Deadline: 15th August


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Publication
Accepted papers will be published as an edited book volume with the Springer book series: Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Multidisciplinary Applications (Electronic ISSN 2731-8133, Print ISSN 2731-8125), subject to the peer-review process of conference organizers and Springer. Published volumes would be indexed with Springer and SpringerNature. Additionally, indexing through IEEE Xplore, DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, SCImago, and Scopus is explored.

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Submission Guidelines:
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

Tracks:

Research Track: The research track invites both full-length research papers and short​ conceptual papers.

Ph.D. Symposium Track: The Ph.D. symposium track invites late masters and Ph.D. students to submit their planned or ongoing research as short papers.

Industrial Track: Industrial sessions are planned as invited talks and tutorials from experts in the Industry.​ This is no paper submission under this track. If you have an industrial work as a paper, kindly submit it under the "Research Track". If you are interested ​hold a Exibit, Tutorial or Talk under the Conference, kindly contact us.

Papers submitted to the conference will undergo a thorough peer review process. Accepted papers would be published in the conference proceedings. Authors would be invited to present their papers at the conference.

Papers submitted to the conference proceedings must follow the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science template (LNCS format). You may read about the formatting guidelines at https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19242230/data/v11. A full paper is expected to be less than 14 pages. A short paper can have a maximum of 6 pages. The page limit for either of the paper types includes references. A page is considered to have a maximum of 550 words. Kindly go to the website faiema.org to download the paper template for Latex, Overleaf or Microsoft Word.
All papers need to be submitted as a PDF.


The papers will undergo a single-blind peer review process to ensure that they do not contain any instances of plagiarism and have not been simultaneously submitted to any other conference (i.e., multiple submissions). At least three reviewers would be engaged per paper.

​Authors should be transparent about the use of AI tools like ChatGPT in their works. We follow the COPE guidelines for the use of AI tools. Furthermore, authors are also expected to follow certain ethical principles when submitting their work. Read more about the prescribed ethical responsibilities of authors set forth by Springer.


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List of Topics:
We invite submissions of full research papers, conceptual papers, and short papers for the conference proceedings. We welcome articles on the following topics, but not limited to:

Advances in AI – NLP, Vision, Voice, and Self-taught AI Systems

Soft Computing and Evolutionary Computing;

NeuroEvolutionary Techniques;

Innovations in AI methods, techniques, and algorithms;

Explainable AI;

AI and Robotics;

AI and Automatic Control;

AI and Cloud;

AI and IoT;

Intelligent Engineering Systems, Expert Systems;

Knowledge-Based Systems;

Ethical use of AI;

Guiding the Development of Human-Friendly AI;

Exploring human well-being through AI;

AI for competitive advantage;

AI applications – Health, Energy, Manufacturing, Education, Digital Humanities, and Others;

AI applications for business solutions, governance, education, economic planning, and legal solutions;


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Committees

Steering Committee:
Dr. Antorweep Chakravorty; Associate Professor, University of Stavanger, Norway
Sachin Gaur; Research Co-Ordinator, Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Consortium (NORA), Norway
Dr. Michael Riegler; Chief Research Scientist hos Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway
Dr. N. (Nishant) Saurabh, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, Netherland
Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya; Professor, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India ​


Organizing Committee:

General Chair:
Dr. Michael Riegler; Chief Research Scientist hos Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Norway

Local Co-Chair:
Dr. Maria Tzamtzi; Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Dr. Dimitrios Pavlou; Professor, University of Stavanger, Norway

Program Committee Co-Chair:
Dr. Klaus Schöffmann; Associate Professor, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya; Professor, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India

Research Track Co-Chair:
Dr. Nikolaos Kouvakas; Associate Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Dr. Jayachander Surbiryala; Engineer, University of Stavanger, Norway

Ph.D. Symposium Co-Chair:
Dr. George Panagiotakis; Assistant Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Neel Kanwal; Ph.D. Student, University of Stavanger, Norway
Arezo Shakeri, Ph.D. Student, University of Stavanger, Norway

Industrial Track Co-Chair:
Dr. Bikash Agrawal; Head of Research and Development, Simplifai AS, Norway
Abhishek Thakur; 1st 4x Kaggle Grandmaster; Open-Source Researcher, Hugging Face, USA

Proceeding Co-Chair:
Dr. Ajit Kumar Verma; Professor, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
Dr. Mina Farmanbar; Associate Professor, University of Stavanger, Norway

Publicity Chair: Dr. Michalis Skarpetis; Associate Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece


Technical Program Committee:
Christos Papatheodorou; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Nejm Saadallah; University of Stavanger, Norway
George Fragulis; University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Hellas
Christoforos Economakos; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Christian Beecks; University of Hagen, Germany
Jungwon Seo; University of Stavanger, Norway
Thanasis Papaioannou; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Dimitrios Fragkoulis; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Fatma Gündoğdu; Milli Savunma Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Dragi Kimovski; University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Stefanos Vrochidis; Information Technologies Institute, Greece
Nikolay Nikolov; SINTEF, Norway
Radu Prodan; University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Georgios Alexandridis; National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Bernhard Rinner; Klagenfurt University, Austria
Mario Taschwer; Klagenfurt University, Austria
Guido Bologna; University of Applied Science of Western Switzerland
Hadi Amirpourazarian; University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Sahar Nasirihaghighi; University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Ferhat Ozgur Catak; University of Stavanger, Norway
Murat Ozbayoglu; TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Türkiye
George Chamilothoris; University of West Attica, Greece
Mario Doeller; FH Kufstein Tirol, Austria

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Keynotes:
Dr. Fotis Koumboulis, Professor of Robotics and Industrial Automation, Department of Digital Industry Technologies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece ()https://www.core.uoa.gr/tmima/prosopiko/meli_didaktikoy_ereynitikoy_prosopikoy_dep/kathigites_protis_bathmidas/fotis_n_koumboulis/)
Dr. Nalinaksh S. Vyas, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, India; Chairman - Technology Mission for Indian Railways (TMIR), Ministry of Railways, Government of India, India
Dr. Tomasz Wiktorski Data Operations Manager; Aker BP ASA, Norway

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Industrial Talks:
Sindre Asplem, AI Engineer, Capgemini; Norway
) Topic: Semantic Knowledge Graph

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Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to miskapetis@uoa.gr or via the "Contact Us" form at faiema.org