Special Session for CFIS2022 on:  

AI for Good 

AIM: It is increasingly clear that artificial intelligence (AI) will be making a profound contribution to the future of humanity, the planet, and the world.  AI has already offered cost-effective solutions in several critical fields and has led to a large and profitable private industry. The remaining question is whether AI could also provide cost-effective solutions to traditionally unprofitable problems that are generally neglected by the private sector. Yet solving them is critical to the future of humankind and its ‘public good,’ such as famine, drought, pollution, and even pandemics. These problems potentially constitute major humanitarian crises that are traditionally supported only by governments or non-profit foundations. Still, as such, their funding is always scarce and inadequate, considering the scale of the problems they address. In this special session, we hope to include AI applications that are traditionally ‘for Good,’ such as in medicine, health, agriculture, and the environment. But we also hope to identify applications among them that could be game-changers, transforming traditionally costly problems to profitable and self-sustaining enterprise.

SCOPE: This special session will highlight the latest development in this rapidly growing research area of AI for Good. Authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished work in the areas including (but not limited to) the following:

• Food supply
• Medicine and health sciences
• Poverty
• Drought
• The environment
• Environmental pollution Greenhouse Gases
• Transportation
• Machine-human interaction
• Social Sciences
• Agriculture. 

You should follow the instructions of the CFIS2022 paper submission guidelines, and submit your paper via  https://cfis2022.bam.ac.ir. Make sure to select “AI for Good” as your preferred track during submission. Special session papers are treated the same as regular conference papers, and will be included in the conference proceedings. All accepted and registered English papers of CFIS2022 will be index by IEEE Xplore. The extended deadline for paper submission is 21 November 2022.

Special Session Chair:

• Prof. Mohammad-R. Akbarzadeh-T., akbarzadeh{AT}ieee.org, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Center of Excellence on Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Processing, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

About the organizer:

Mohammad-R. Akbarzadeh-T. is currently a professor and director of the Center of Excellence on Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Processing (SCIIP), department of electrical engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. He received his Ph.D. on Evolutionary Optimization and Fuzzy Control of Complex Systems from the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in 1998. From 1996-2003, he was also affiliated with the NASA Center for Autonomous Control Engineering at UNM. In 2006 and 2017, he was also with the Berkeley Initiative on Soft Computing (BISC), UC Berkeley as a visiting scholar. In 2007, he also served as a consulting faculty at the Department of Aerospace and Aeronautic Engineering, Purdue University. Prof. Akbarzadeh is the founding president of the Intelligent Systems Scientific Society of Iran and the founding councilor representing the Iranian Coalition on Soft Computing in IFSA. He is also a senior member of the IEEE and the founding faculty councilor of the IEEE student branch until 2008. His research interests are in the areas of bio-inspired computing/optimization, fuzzy logic and control, soft computing, multi-agent systems, complex systems, robotics, cognitive sciences, and medical informatics. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed articles in these and related research fields.