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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​ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ Submissions made until 19th July 2023 23:59 CET will receive evaluation notification on 1st August 2023.
+ Based on multiple requests we have decided to open a second submission. The second submission deadline is set for 31st July 2023. Submissions made after 19th July will receive evaluation notification on 20th August 2023. more information in the Call for Papers section.
+ The Ph.D. Symposium Track now accepts full-length papers as well.
+ Information about invitation letters for VISA requirements for authors of accepted papers and participants traveling from outside the European Union will be published on the 1st of August 2023.

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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
FIRST SUBMISSION
Submissions made until 19th July 2023 23:59 CET will follow the timeline as specified in this section.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 19th July 23:59
  - CET/Central European Time (UTC +2)
  - NOTIFICATION: 1st August
  - CAMERA READY: 15th August
  - REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 15th August


SECOND SUBMISSION
Based on multiple requests a second submission is setup. The second submission are for papers submitted after 19th July 23:59 CET. This will follow the timeline as specified in this section.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31st July 23:59
  - CET/Central European Time (UTC +2)
  - NOTIFICATION: 20th August
  - CAMERA READY: 5th September
  - REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 5th September


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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. Extended versions of high-quality papers would be invited to be published as a special issue on Artificial Intelligence in the International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management (Electronic ISSN 0976-4348, Print ISSN 0975-6809). 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 or full-length 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;
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AI and Robotics;
AI and Automatic Control;
AI and Cloud;
AI and IoT;
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Intelligent Engineering Systems, Expert Systems;
Knowledge-Based Systems;
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Ethical use of AI;
Guiding the Development of Human-Friendly AI;
Exploring human well-being through AI;
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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:
Radu Prodan; University of Klagenfurt; Austria
Ilianna Kollia; National Technical University of Athens; Greece
Efthimis Vaiopoulos; AI Catalyst; Greece
Mario Taschwer; Klagenfurt University; Austria
George Chamilothoris; University of West Attica; Greece
Thanasis Papaioannou; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Greece
Konstantinos Touloupas; AI Catalyst; Greece
Sahar Nasirihaghighi; Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt; Austria
Mario Doeller; FH Kufstein Tirol; Austria
Stefanos Kollias; National Technical University of Athens; Greece
Bernhard Rinner; Klagenfurt University; Austria
Agis Georgiou; AI Catalyst; Greece
Fadi Shehadeh; National Technical University of Athens; Greece
Murat Ozbayoglu; TOBB University of Economics and Technology; Turkey
Nikolay Nikolov; SINTEF; Norway
Ferhat Ozgur Catak; University of Stavanger; Norway
Abhimanyu Mukerji; Amazon; USA
Christos Papatheodorou; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Greece
Demetris Gerogiannis; AI Catalyst; Greece
George Stavrakakis; Technical University of Crete; Greece
Guido Bologna; University of Applied Science of Western Switzerland; Switzerland
Hadi Amirpourazarian; University of Klagenfurt; Austria
Stefanos Vrochidis; Information Technologies Institute; Greece
Fatma Gündoğdu;
Christian Beecks; University of Hagen; Germany
Christoforos Economakos; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Greece
George Fragulis; University of Western Macedonia; Greece
Nejm Saadallah; University of Stavanger; Norway
Jungwon Seo; University of Stavanger; Norway
Dragi Kimovski; University of Klagenfurt; Austria
Georgios Alexandridis; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens; Greece
Paul Sotiriadis; National Technical University of Athens; Greece
Dimitrios Fragkoulis; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Greece

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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
) Ulysse Côté-Allard, Co-Founder and CEO; SiFi Labs, Norway
) Marianne Lie Howard, Director - Technology Law; Deloitte, Norway

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Industrial Talks:
) Sindre Asplem, AI Engineer, Capgemini; Norway. Topic: Semantic Knowledge Graph
) Georgios Karamanolis, Co-Founder & CTO/CIO, Crowdpolicy & FintelioX; Greece. Topic: tba
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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