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The CCC, in collaboration with INFORMS and ACM SIGAI, will be
hosting the final workshop of a three-part series titled, Artificial
Intelligence (AI)/Operations Research (OR), in late February or
early March 2024 to set a course for fundamental research that needs
the partnership of both disciplines. Organized by Yu Ding (Georgia
Institute of Technology), Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Institute
of Technology), Sven Koenig (University of Southern California),
Ramayya Krishnan (Carnegie Mellon University), Radhika Kulkarni
(INFORMS), and Phebe Vayanos (University of Southern California),
the workshop will focus on drafting a strategic plan for increasing
the AI/OR partnership and on outlining real-world opportunities for
collaboration, based on discussions from the previous two workshops.<br>
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<p> For this workshop, <b>we are requesting proposals from
the AI and OR communities for compelling and inspiring
grand challenge problems of a theoretical or applied
nature that:</b><b><br>
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<li><b>require the collaboration of AI and OR researchers
and</b></li>
<li><b>will result in basic research on the integration of
AI and OR techniques that</b></li>
<li><b>align with societal needs and national priorities
with potential for real-world impact.</b><br>
</li>
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<p>We would like proposals to describe a challenge problem
that will result in the integration of AI and OR methods
and articulate the AI and OR methods needed, dataset
availability (if applicable), method innovation,
evaluation criteria, path to applications, and the
potential to result in impact on societal needs and
national priorities. Some questions to consider are:<br>
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<li>What are challenges that you believe will be faced to
tackle this problem, and what are the mechanisms needed
to address them?</li>
<li>How can policies/mechanisms incentivize collaborations
between the two communities?</li>
<li>Why do you think the two communities need to
collaborate to address this challenge?<br>
</li>
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<p>Challenge problems can be submitted using this <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://form.jotform.com/232065901251043">form</a>.
Submissions can be written in paragraph or bullet point
style formats. Your submission should convincingly explain
why it satisfies points 1, 2, and 3 above and how it
addresses questions 1, 2, and 3. Some high level ideas of
challenges include leveraging optimization to mitigate
bias in large language models, or using robust
optimization to enhance privacy of generative AI. The
deadline for submission is September 15, 2023.<br>
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<p>Selected submitters will be invited to participate in the
third workshop to help shape the discussion around
collaboration between AI and OR communities and
researchers and to help break barriers in such
collaborations.<br>
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<p>At the final workshop, in addition to laying out
challenge problems, we will also outline additional
strategies that will help both communities to impact
national priorities, such as creating a joint summer
school where AI and OR experts provide multidisciplinary
training in AI and OR to Ph.D. students, and other ideas
from the community. The objective for the third workshop
is to write a final report that lays out a blueprint for
activities that increase the collaboration between the AI
and OR communities. <br>
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To learn more about the AI/OR Workshop series, please
visit the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://cra.org/ccc/events/artifical-intelligence-operations-research-workshop/">First</a>
and <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://cra.org/ccc/events/artificial-intelligence-operations-research-workshop-ii/">Second</a>
workshop event pages, and read the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Filler-AIOR-document.pdf">Workshop
1 Report Out</a> and the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/AI-OR-II-Workshop-Report-Out..pdf">Workshop
2 Report Out</a>.<br>
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<b>Please remember to submit your ideas </b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://form.jotform.com/232065901251043">here</a></b><b>
by September 15, 2023.</b><br>
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