The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to share a call for participation in the Combining AI and ORMS for Better Trustworthy Decision Making Bridge Program supported by AAAI and INFORMS. This Bridge Program is being organized by participants in our workshops on Artificial Intelligence/Operations Research (AI/OR). 

In 2021, the idea for a series of three workshops arose to respond to the significant attention to AI from businesses, industries, and academic institutions. Researchers believe AI and OR are complementary and synergistic when used together to solve business and societal problems such as energy needs and climate change. Through these workshops both communities were able to develop a joint strategic vision to maximize the societal impact of AI and OR in a complex world with many challenging problems, resulting in two reports, with an additional  one coming soon. 

However, there are more opportunities to improve decision-making in these spaces and here’s where you come in. The Bridge Program will be an ongoing program kicked off  at AAAI 2025. This kick off event will include presentations on applying AI and OR/MS techniques to state-of-the-art research on trustworthy decision-making and proposals on new research directions and real world challenge problems to drive forward ongoing work in this area.

The primary goals of this Bridge program, as stated in the full call for participation, are to, “unite AI and OR/MS practitioners and researchers to improve trustworthy decision-making in key socio-technical areas… [and] equip them with better tools by familiarizing them with each other’s techniques and domains.”

Interested individuals are invited to submit their proposals by November 25, 2024. 

Visit the website to learn more about this bridge and the submission requirements.