The Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a potential to help humans even empower them in many ways. However, AI and especially generative AI produces also some negative effects.

Sustainability is a complex topic that requires first deep understanding before applying the adequate techniques. Often solving complex problems involves using hybrid AI architecture.  Knowledge and experience are also important for “smart and green” problem solving.

Today we have to face and try to fix the environmental challenges in the growing cities, industry, agriculture, energy, water and other resource management. Energy life cycle, optimization, and combination of renewable energies for sustainable powering and heating can be improved applying also Knowledge Management principles. Raising prices of natural gas drives growth in renewable energies. Industries like steel, glass, chemical manufacturing sites are they are looking for AI based control systems for the Grid connected micro-grids. Circular energy explores the heat generated by data centers and the waste steam for a sustainable environment as like creating fish farms or agricultural sites, or recreating cooling water, which are additional processes that demand AI-based scheduling using meteorological data. Clean energy solutions require evolution of manufacturing processes and holistic approach supported by rigorous analytics, high quality data and the recognition of infrastructure dependencies. In order to increase sustainability in agriculture, it is vital to incorporate green technologies into farming, e.g., renewable generation. However, there are significant challenges associated with enhancing the sustainability of agriculture.

Related to technology itself the challenge is producing smarter and greener hardware, software and applications.

This workshop follows the previously organized AI4KM on IJCAI15 – 19. It evolved to AI4KMES on IJCAI 20 and 21 and to AI4S held on ECAI23. It will focus on various ways of using AI to address effectively the sustainability issues including 17 UN SD goals.

TOPICS

The workshop topics include (but are not limited to):

• Complex problem solving
• Neuro-symbolic AI
• Conceptual modelling
• Knowledge discovery in multimodal data
• Decision support systems
• Optimisation of various resources
• Managing the best practice
• Risk management
• Learning systems including serious games
• Human-AI collaboration
• Knowledge mining in social networks
• Distributed knowledge
• Knowledge management applied to ecodesign
• Creativity enhancing systems
• Support of innovation and eco-innovation process
• Intelligent assistants
• Renewable energy integration
• AI for agriculture and agroecology,
• Automation in renewable energy generation and distribution
• Decision modelling in agriculture, and agent-based and multi-agent systems in sustainability

Applications for eco-activities and AI applications supporting sustainable development are very welcome.

Submission details

We invite authors to submit unpublished papers to this workshop, to be presented at Oral/Poster session after acceptance. All papers must be written in English, and the workshop will consider full-length papers and extended abstracts.

• Full-length papers. Page limit – 7 pages (6 + 1 for references).

Springer format https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

• Papers should be submitted through https://chairingtool.com/conferences/ijcai25-w14/main-track?role=author

* Note: We invite authors whose submissions to the main conference were previously rejected to submit their work to our workshop. To do so, they must include a supplemental submission with comments from previous reviewers (named reviews.pdf) and a letter of modifications (named letter_of_changes.pdf). These documents should clearly demonstrate how the authors have addressed the comments made by previous reviewers.

Deadlines

All dates are 11:59 pm, Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

• Full Paper submission deadline: May 9, 2025
• Author notification: June 6, 2025
• Camera-Ready submission: June 30, 2025
• Workshop date: August 16-17, 2025 (TBC)

Publication details

• At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must attend the workshop to present the paper.
• Selected papers will be published in electronic proceedings and extended papers will be published by Springer AICT (IFIP publisher).

Workshop organizers

• Eunika Mercier-Laurent, https://crestic.univ-reims.fr/en/mercier-laurent
• Gulgun Kayakutlu https://web.itu.edu.tr/~kayakutlu/index.html
• Simeon Simoff https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/marcs/about/our_people/researchers/professor_simeon_simoff
• Noêl Conruyt https://sites.google.com/site/noelconruyt
• Lukasz Przysucha http://lukaszprzysucha.com

Local organizers

• Margaret Havey https://cips.ca/margarethavey/
• Joel Alleyne University of Toronto

PC

• Adesina Simon Sodiya – Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria
• Anne Dourgnon – EDF, France
• Antoni Ligeza – AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
• Caroline Wintergerst – University of Lyon 3, France
• Cindi Punihaole, The Kohala Center, Hawai, USA
• Cristina Monsone – University of Gyor, Hungary
• Eric Thivant – University of Lyon 3, France
• Frederique Second – INRIA, France
• Guillermo R. Simari – Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
• Hiroshi Takeda – Osaka University, Japan
• Imene Brigui – Ecole de Management, Lyon, France
• Iwona Chomiak-Orsa, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland
• Janusz Wojtusiak – George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
• Knut Hinkelmann – University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
• Konstantin M. Golubev – General Knowledge Machine Research Group, Ukraine
• Krystian Wojtkiewicz – Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
• Maciej Pondel – Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland
• Mario Lazoche – University Nancy I, France
• Mario Tokoro – Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
• Michael Stankosky – George Washington University, USA
• Nada Matta – Universite de Technologie de Troyes, France
• Noël Conruyt -University La Reunion, France
• Otthein Herzog – Universitaet Bremen, Germany
• Vincent Ribiere – Bangkok University, Thailand