Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA)

Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT_24)

Applied intelligence, integrated with software, is an essential enabler for science and the new economy, creating new markets and new directions for a more reliable, flexible and robust society and empowering the exploration of our world in ever more depth. The available software, however, often falls short of expectations, with current methodologies, tools, and techniques still neither robust enough nor sufficiently reliable to adequately serve a constantly changing and evolving market.

This proceedings presents 40 papers delivered at SoMeT 24, the 23rd edition of the International Conference on New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodology Tools, and Techniques, held on 24 and 25 September 2024 in Cancun, Mexico. The conference explored new trends and theories, illuminating the direction of developments by discussing issues ranging from research practices to techniques and methodologies and proposing and reporting on the solutions needed for global world business, and this book aims to capture the essence of a new state-of-the-art in software science and its supporting technologies, and to identify the challenges that such technologies will have to master. The 40 papers included here were carefully selected following a thorough review process on the basis of technical soundness, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity, whereby each paper was reviewed by three or four reviewers.

The book brings together the work of scholars from the international research community, and will be of interest to all those working in the field of intelligent software methodology, tools, and techniques.

Editors: Fujita, H., Perez-Meana, H., Hernandez-Matamoros, A.
Pages: 558
Volume 389 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Binding: softcover
ISBN print: 978-1-64368-538-0
ISBN online: 978-1-64368-539-7

Proceedings of the 26th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence

In its broadest sense, artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence exhibited by machines; computer systems in particular. Founded as an academic discipline in 1956, it was not until 2012, when deep learning outperformed previous AI techniques, that interest and investment increased enormously, ultimately leading to the situation today where it is sometimes hard for us to imagine a life without AI.

This book presents the proceedings of CCIA2024, the 26th edition of the International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, held from 2 – 4 October 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. The CCIA conferences now serve as a forum to bring together participants working on AI research from around the world. A total of 68 papers was received for the conference, and this book contains 26 long papers, 19 short papers, and 4 long abstracts (49 papers) which were ultimately accepted following a thorough peer review process, resulting in an acceptance rate of 72%. These are divided into 5 sections: machine learning and deep learning applications; natural language processing (NLP); artificial intelligence ethics and decision support systems; robotics and autonomous systems; and specialized applications of AI, and cover a wide range of AI domains, such as machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, data science, and reinforcement learning. Critical AI applications across a number of fields are explored, including healthcare, smart services, environmental monitoring, and manufacturing, and topics such as the ethical considerations of AI, voice cloning, and decision-making support systems are also examined.

Providing a current overview of new developments and ideas, the book will be of interest to all those working in the field of AI development.

Editors: Alsinet, T., Vilasís, X., García, D., Álvarez, E.
Pages: 348
Volume 390 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
ISBN print: 978-1-64368-543-4

This is an online only publication

Proceedings of COMMA 2024

This book presents the proceedings of COMMA 2024, the 10th biennial International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, held from 18 to 20 September 2024 in Hagen, Germany. The COMMA conference series provides a dedicated forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest advancements in this interdisciplinary field, covering basic research, systems and innovative applications and nurturing the steady growth of interest in computational-argumentation research worldwide.

A total of 63 submissions was received for the conference, and after a thorough review process 26 were accepted as full papers, with a further 12 accepted as demos accompanied by an extended abstract, and 2 as full papers with accompanying demo, resulting in an acceptance rate of 53% for full papers and 63% for papers and demo abstracts combined.
In addition to these 40 papers, extended abstracts of the 3 invited talks are also included here: Semantics in Argumentation: Classifications and Challenges, by Leila Amgoud; Expanding the Scope of Bayesian Argumentation, by Ulrike Hahn; and The Long Road to Trustworthy Natural Language Argumentation, by Serena Villata.

The book provides a fascinating overview of current research and innovations, and will be of interest to all those working in the field.

Editors: Reed, C., Thimm, M., Rienstra, T.
Pages: 394
Volume 388 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Binding: softcover
ISBN print: 978-1-64368-534-2
ISBN online: 978-1-64368-535-9

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference (MMBD 2024), Beijing, China, 25-27 October 2024

‘Big Data’ has been one of the buzzwords of recent years, a time during which computers and automated systems have become intrinsic, not least in the area of modern management.

This book presents the proceedings of MMBD 2024, the 5th International Conference on Modern Management based on Big Data, held as a hybrid event in Beijing, China from 25-27 October 2024. The conference provides a platform not only for academics, but also for technicians, policymakers and managers from various industries to gather and discuss innovations in the field. A total of 180 submissions were received for the conference, of which 63 were ultimately selected after a thorough peer review process, resulting in an acceptance rate of 35%. Topics covered include big data and modern management; innovation in online education management with big data; green supply chain management; big data analytics in supply chains; decision making on sustainable development; the digital economy; digital innovation; and social strategies for managing human relationships.

Offering an overview of the latest developments and innovations, the book will be of interest to all those whose work involves management based on big data.

Editors: Tallón-Ballesteros, A.J.
Pages: 636
Volume 387 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
ISBN online: 978-1-64368-528-1

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Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence

The field of hybrid human-artificial intelligence (HHAI), although primarily driven by developments in AI, also requires fundamentally new approaches and solutions. Multidisciplinary in nature, it calls for collaboration across various research domains, such as AI, HCI, the cognitive and social sciences, philosophy and ethics, and complex systems, to name but a few.

This book presents the proceedings of HHAI 2024, the 3rd International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence, held from 10-14 June 2024 in Malmö, Sweden. The focus of HHAI 2024 was on artificially-intelligent systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying rather than replacing human intelligence. A total of 62 submissions were received for the main track of the conference, of which 31 were accepted for presentation after a thorough double blind review process. These comprised 9 full papers, 5 blue sky papers, and 17 working papers, making the final acceptance rate for full papers 29%. Acceptance rate across all tracks of the main program was 50%. This book contains all submissions accepted for the main track, as well as the proposals for the Doctoral Consortium and extended abstracts from the Posters and Demos track. Topics covered include human-AI interaction and collaboration; learning, reasoning and planning with humans and machines in the loop; fair, ethical, responsible, and trustworthy AI; societal awareness of AI; and the role of design and compositionality of AI systems in interpretable/collaborative AI, among others.

Providing a current overview of research and development, the book will be of interest to all those working in the field and facilitate the ongoing exchange and development of ideas across a range of disciplines.

Editors: Lorig, F., Tucker, J., Dahlgren Lindström, A., Dignum, F., Murukannaiah, P., Theodorou, A., Yolum, P.
Pages: 512
Volume 386 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
ISBN online: 978-1-64368-522-9

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Proceedings of ISWED 2023, Guangzhou, China, 17 December 2023

With the world facing increasingly serious global climate change and resource scarcity issues, ecology and the environment have received much attention in recent years. As a major factor in human activity, design plays an important part in protecting the environment, as does the role of digital technology in finding solutions to the pressing problems faced in this regard.

This book presents the proceedings of ISWED2023, the International Symposium on World Ecological Design, held on 17 December 2023 in Guangzhou, China. Sponsored by the World Eco-Design Conference (a UN Consultative NGO), the conference provides a platform for professionals and researchers from industry and academia to present and discuss recent advances in the field of ecological design. This year, the conference focused on the four topics of digital technology and health, digital technology and transportation, digital technology and energy, and digital technology and the environment. A total of 518 submissions on these topics were received for the conference, of which 125 were accepted for presentation and publication here.

Providing a current overview of research and innovation in ecological design around the world, the book will be of interest to all those working in the fields of ecological design and digital-technology integration.

Editors: Ying, F., Jain, L.C., Wan, R., Wu, Q., Shi, F.
Pages: 1274
Volume 384 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
ISBN print: 978-1-64368-506-9
ISBN online: 978-1-64368-507-6

27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 19–24 October 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain – Including 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2024)

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The field of AI has grown enormously since 1974, when a summer conference on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour was held in Brighton, UK. This milestone in the history of AI has since come to be thought of as the 1st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI).

This book presents the proceedings of ECAI-2024, the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. This 50th-anniversary edition of the conference, with the theme of celebrating the past and inspiring the future, was held from 19 to 24 October 2024 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Included here are 544 Main Track papers (selected from 2,344 submissions, acceptance rate 23%), and 18 Demo Track papers (57 submissions, acceptance rate 32%). These cover all areas of AI, including planning, search, constraints, satisfiability, knowledge representation, uncertainty, data mining, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, multiagent systems, and robotics. Multi-disciplinary aspects such as the interplay between humans and machines, fairness, ethics, and trust are also covered.

Also included in the book are eight invited papers on Frontiers in AI and the abstracts of 14 recently-published journal papers not previously presented at a conference with archival proceedings. ECAI-2024 was held concurrently with PAIS-2024, the 13th edition of the Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems, and the peer reviewed papers accepted for presentation at PAIS (35 papers from 71 submissions, acceptance rate 49%) also form part of this book.

Offering a comprehensive overview of recent research and developments in AI, the book will be of interest to all those working in the field.

Editors: Ulle Endriss, Francisco S. Melo, Kerstin Bach, Alberto Bugarín-Diz, José M. Alonso-Moral, Senén Barro, Fredrik Heintz
Pages: 4858
Volume 392 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
ISBN online: 978-1-64368-548-9

This is an online only proceedings, a paper version has not been published.

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference (ArtInHCI 2023), Wuhan, China, 27-28 October 2023

There is no denying the increasing importance of AI and human-computer interaction for societies worldwide. The potential for good in these fields is undeniable, but the challenges which arise during research and in practice must be carefully managed if this potential for good is to be realized without harm.

This book presents the proceedings of ArtInHCI2023, the 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction, held as an online event from 27-28 October 2023, and attended by around 70 participants from around the world. The aim of the conference was to promote academic exchange within and across disciplines, addressing theoretical and practical challenges and advancing current understanding and application. A total of 72 submissions were received for the conference, of which 41 were selected for presentation and publication following a thorough peer review process, resulting in an acceptance rate of 57%. Topics covered included deep learning, artificial neural networks, computer vision and pattern recognition and papers were focused on the challenges of research as well as application.

Providing a fascinating overview of developments and innovation in the field, the book will be of interest to all those working with AI or human-computer interaction.

Editors: Ye, Y., Siarry, P.
Pages: 396
Binding: softcover
Volume 385 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
ISBN print: 978-1-64368-508-3
ISBN online: 978-1-64368-509-0

The volume and complexity of information, together with the number of abstraction levels and the size of data and knowledge bases, grow continually. Data originating from diverse sources involves a combination of data from traditional legacy sources and unstructured data requiring backwards modeling, meanwhile, information modeling and knowledge bases have become important contributors to 21st-century academic and industrial research.

This book presents the proceedings of EJC 2023, the 33rd International Conference on Information Modeling and Knowledge Bases, held from 5 to 9 June 2023 in Maribor, Slovenia. The aim of the EJC conferences is to bring together experts from different areas of computer science and from other disciplines that share the common interest of understanding and solving the problems of information modeling and knowledge bases and applying the results of research to practice. The conference constitutes a research forum for the exchange of results and experiences by academics and practitioners dealing with information and knowledge bases. The topics covered at EJC 2023 encompass a wide range of themes including conceptual modeling; knowledge and information modeling and discovery; linguistic modeling; cross-cultural communication and social computing; environmental modeling and engineering; and multimedia data modeling and systems. In the spirit of adapting to the changes taking place in these areas of research, the conference was also open to new topics related to its main themes.

Providing a current overview of progress in the field, this book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the use of information modeling and knowledge bases.

Editors: Tropmann-Frick, M., Jaakkola, H., Thalheim, B., Kiyoki, Y., Yoshida, N.
Pages: 340
Binding: softcover
Volume 380 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
ISBN print: 978-1-64368-476-5
ISBN online: 978-1-64368-477-2

Proceedings of DSIE 2023, Hangzhou, China, 28-29 October 2023

The discipline of design studies applies various technologies, from basic theory to application systems, while intelligence engineering encompasses computer-aided industrial design, human-factor design, and greenhouse design, and plays a major part within design science. Intelligence engineering technologies also include topics from theory and application, such as computational technologies, sensing technologies, and video detection.

This book presents the proceedings of DSIE2023, the 2023 International Symposium on Design Studies and Intelligence Engineering, held on 28 & 29 October 2023 in Hangzhou, China. The conference provides a platform for professionals and researchers from industry and academia to present and discuss recent advances in the fields of design studies and intelligence engineering. It also fosters cooperation among the organizations and researchers involved in these overlapping fields, and invites internationally renowned professors to further explore these topics in some depth, providing the opportunity for them to discuss the technical presentations with conference participants. In all, 275 submissions were received for the conference, 105 of which were accepted after thorough review by 3 or 4 referees for presentation at the conference and inclusion here.

Providing a valuable overview of the latest developments, the book will be of interest to all those working in the fields of design studies and intelligence engineering.

Editors: Jain, L.C., Balas, V.E., Wu, Q., Shi, F.
Pages: 1124
Binding: softcover
Volume 383 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
ISBN print: 978-1-64368-488-8
ISBN online: 978-1-64368-489-5