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CFP: Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Society (AI4IS@EPIA-2025)
Thematic track of the 24th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2025)
October 1-3, 2025, Faro, Portugal.
Webpage:
https://epia2025.ualg.pt/tt-artificial-intelligence-for-industry-and-societies-ai4is/
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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: May 23, 2025
Notification of paper acceptance: July 4, 2025
Camera-ready papers deadline: July 14, 2025
Conference dates: October 1-3, 2025
IMPORTANT NEWS
– LNCS/LNAI Proceedings (Springer)
– A selection of the best papers will be invited to fast-track journal submissions
– Special issue at Springer (Q2) with selected papers*
INTRODUCTION
Societies and industries face many challenges to be more intelligent and sustainable. In this context, many good practices and approaches are being explored, and numerous new contributions are being generated daily. Many good practices and procedures are being investigated, and several unique contributions emerge without benefitting from sufficient visibility. The track “Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Society” aims to overcome precisely this gap. An intelligent society looks to citizens’ problems and tries to maximize the use of high-potential innovative technologies by collaboration across multiple sectors so as to create more efficient, intelligent, and adaptable services, and, ultimately, to enable prosperity and resilience. This is where the concept of smart cities comes into play, as they are perfectly positioned to integrate smart infrastructures with human needs through community services. Connected and efficient cities and communities can lead to informed, engaged, and contented citizens.
However, to have an innovative society, intelligent industries are also necessary. The concept of Industry 4.0 is associated with the digital transformation of manufacturing and related sectors, as well as value-creation processes. Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a vital role in automating processes, predicting errors, and reducing failures. However, we are now witnessing post-Industry 4.0 developments in Europe and around the World, as led by eco-innovation and green (re-)industrialization”, driven by the transition to sustainable development. AI will have an even stronger role in these, as complex multi-disciplinary projects need its support.
In this evolution, industry and society must work together, and this is a truly multidisciplinary endeavour whereby AI is a key hinge and facilitator between technologies, people, goods, and services. The present conference track seeks to bring together researchers and professionals, enabling them to explore new solutions and applications across society and industry, including novelties and best practices that can be implemented in the real world. The event enters a new era of technical communication by demonstrating how scientific knowledge can be transferred to society and applied in industry using Data Science and AI approaches in topics such as “Business, Industry, and Smart Factory” and “Sustainable and Smart Cities and Societies”. IA4IS is open to receiving and selecting several high-quality contributions in these two areas, especially propositions related to cognitive computing platforms and applications, including technologies and infrastructures associated with AI, machine learning, big data processing and data analytics.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Innovative and exciting works are welcome in areas including, but not limited to:
Business, Industry and Smart Factory
– Advanced data visualisation and data management techniques and solutions
– Advanced interactive technologies, including augmented/virtual reality
– Advanced mechanical engineering technologies with Machine Learning
– AI-assisted designs and process simulations – Artificial intellect
– AI for Sustainability (e.g. LCA, ESR)
– Artificial Intelligence solutions and applications in Industry (e.g. Energy, Metal, Textile, Garments, others)
– Augmented reality with artificial Intelligence
– Authentication, data security and protection
– Automation and intelligent robotics
– Controlling textile materials using AI
– Cyber-physical systems (CPS) with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
– Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) – Internet of Things modules, platforms and applications applied to Industry
– Minimizing production scrap
– Minimizing the use of energy and raw materials
– Minimizing CO2 and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
– Mobile and wearable devices with AI modules
– Optimizing melting, heat treatment and production process parameters using data collection, analysis, and interpretation
– Optimizing the design, development and production processes of textiles and Fibers using AI
– Quality Control Systems
– Scrap management systems
– Smart factory, production technologies and systems
– Smart sensors and biosensors
– Sorting technologies in scrap recycling
Sustainable and Smart Cities and Societies
– Big data, open data, and analytical tools
– Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) solutions
– Disaster management
– Internet of Things (IoT) for smart cities
– Responsible innovation
– Generative AI in societies
– Smart buildings
– Smart economy
– Smart energy
– Smart garbage and PAYT
– Smart governance
– Smart grid infrastructures
– Smart Living, Wellbeing, and healthcare
– Smart people
– Smart sensing
– Smart Transportation and Urban Mobility
– Technological infrastructure for smart cities support
– Web/mobile solutions with AI
PAPER SUBMISSION
All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA’2025 submission Website. Submissions must be original and can be of two types: regular (full-length) papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages in length, whereas short papers should not exceed six (6) pages. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. The reviewing process is double-blind. The best-accepted papers will be published in the proceedings by Springer in the LNAI series (previous EPIA proceedings were indexed in Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, DBLP, and the ACM Digital Library). The remaining accepted papers will be published in the local proceedings with an ISBN.
*Authors of the best papers presented at the AI4IS track of EPIA will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for a Springer Special Issue or at other EPIA Fast-Track submission processes
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Filipe Portela (cfp@dsi.uminho.pt)
Sherin M. Moussa
Teresa Guarda
Ioan M. Ciumasu