Call for Participation

We would like to take the opportunity of the IJCAI-ECAI 2022 in Vienna to bring together AI researchers from Austria. To do this, we will organize an informal satellite event to further connect the Austrian AI community. The idea is to bring together researchers in the broader area of AI under the umbrella of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence, who is organizing this event.

The meeting will be held at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, TC 2.01, in walking distance of the IJCAI location Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center, on the same day as IJCAI’s welcome reception, which will take place right after our event in WU’s landmark building, the Library Learning Center.

Towards the goals of the workshop, we aim to have two main agenda items: short presentations of the research groups, and networking and discussion opportunities.

Call for Research Group Presentations

Within the event, we would like to give AI research groups in Austria the opportunity to present themselves. This should be a five-minute short presentation containing the following:

• present your unit or organization
• present research questions your group currently works on

If you are interested in presenting your research group, please submit your application via EasyChair here: easychair.org/conferences/?conf=asaise2022. Presentations will take place in the form of five-minute lightning talks, as well as a poster session. In order to apply for a presentation slot, please provide the following information in your submission:

Submission guideline:

• Name and short description of your research group (up to 1 page)
• List of research topics
• List of up to 5 selected publications

As a presenter you are invited to bring a poster with details about your research, aiming to give young researchers the possibility to present and discuss their work in an informal atmosphere during the networking session (poster format details will be communicated upon acceptance of the presentation proposals). Talk slides and posters will be published on the event website.

Networking and Discussions

The main goal of the event is networking and enabling new collaborations and discussion amongst Austrian AI researchers, in line with the goals of ASAI and Uniko recently published in a joint position paper [1] to strengthen the community and, apart from research, to also discuss broader topics such as Austria’s AI strategy [2] and the role of the academic Austrian research community within. Refreshments will be provided and there is a possibility to join the subsequent IJCAI Welcome Reception.

Confirmed Groups

• Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous Intelligent System Group, TU Graz
• Continual Learning Intelligent Systems, Human Centered Computing Labs, TU Graz
• Databases and Artificial Intelligence Group, TU Wien
• Fraunhofer Austria
• Institute for Data, Process and Knowledge Management, WU Wien
• Intitute for Machine Learning, JKU Linz
• Institute for Symbolic Artificial Intelligence, JKU Linz
• Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Medical University of Vienna
• Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, TU Graz
• Intelligent and Interactive Systems, University of Innsbruck
• Intelligent Systems and Business Informatics, University of Klagenfurt
• Intelligent Systems Group, TU Graz
• Knowledge-Based Systems Group, TU Wien
• Machine Learning Group, Know-Center GmbH
• Machine Learning Group, SCCH
• Semantic Systems Group, University of Klagenfurt
• Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Group, TU Graz
• Vienna Dermatologic Imaging/Informatics Research, Medical University of Vienna

Committee

Workshop Organizers and Co-Chairs

• Shqiponja Ahmetaj, WU Wien, TU Wien
• Michael Morak, University of Klagenfurt

Program Committee

See here.

Important Dates

• Group presentation application deadline: 30 May 2022
• General registration opens: 01 June 2022 Details on the registration will be published on the event website
• Notification of acceptance: 01 June 2022
• Submission of final group presentation: 18 July 2022
• Date of workshop: 25 July 2022, 15:00-18:00

References:

[1] Bernhard Moser, Georg Dorffner, Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, Günter Klambauer, Robert Legenstein, Bernhard Nessler, Axel Polleres, and Stefan Woltran. Österreichische AI Strategie aus Sicht der Wissenschaft: Forderungen der ASAI zu einer konkreten AI Strategie in Österreich. OCG Journal, 01/2020:14–17, 2020. Invited article (in German). Link

[2] ASAI Statement on Austria’s AI Strategy 2021 (in German)