Vol. 38 No. 20: AAAI-24 Special Track AI for Social Impact, Senior Member Presentations, New Faculty Highlights, Journal Track

Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Thirty-Sixth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Fourteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Edited by Michael Wooldridge, Jennifer Dy, Sriraam Natarajan
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
February 20–27, 2024, Vancouver, Canada.

Published by AAAI Press, Washington, DC, USA
Copyright © 2024, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
1101 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20004
All Rights Reserved
ISSN 2374-3468 (Online)
ISSN 2159-5399 (Print)
ISBN-10: 1-57735-887-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-57735-887-9

The Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence was held on February 20–27, 2024 in VANCOUVER, CANADA. The program chairs were Jennifer Dy (Northeastern University, USA) and Sriraam Natarajan (University of Texas at Dallas, USA).

AAAI-24 welcomed submissions on research that advances artificial intelligence, broadly conceived. The conference featured technical paper presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, and exhibit programs. Many of these activities were tailored to the theme of bridges and were selected according to the highest standards, with additional programs for students and young researchers. The purpose of this year’s Bridge Program was to tap into new sources of innovation by cultivating collaboration between two or more communities directed towards a common goal including distinct subfields of AI, such as planning and learning, or different disciplines that contribute to and benefit from AI, such as AI and the humanities.

The conference scope included machine learning (deep learning, statistical learning, etc), natural language processing, computer vision, data mining, multiagent systems, knowledge representation, human-in-the-loop AI, search, planning, reasoning, robotics and perception, and ethics. In addition to fundamental work that focused on any one of these areas, AAAI-24 encouraged work across technical areas of AI, (e.g., machine learning and computer vision; computer vision and natural language processing; or machine learning and planning), bridges between AI and a related research area (e.g., neuroscience; cognitive science) or developing AI techniques in the context of important application domains, such as healthcare, sustainability, transportation, and commerce.

The conference also continued its tradition of colocating with the long-running Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence conference (IAAI-24). IAAI-24 was cochaired by Alex Wong (University of Waterloo, Canada), YuHao Chen (University of Waterloo, Canada) and Jan R. Seyler (Festo, Germany). The IAAI-24 papers are included in this proceedings. Also included are the papers from the Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI-24). EAAI-24 was cochaired by Marion Neumann (Washington University, USA) and Stephanie Rosenthal (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)

The proceedings have been published in 21 consecutive issues. This issue (volume 38 no. 20) consists of 836 pages and 6 tracks:

AAAI Technical Track on AI for Social Impact Track
Senior Member Presentation: Blue Sky Papers
Senior Member Presentation: Bridge Sky Papers
Senior Member Presentation: Summary Sky Papers
New Faculty Highlights
AAAI Journal Track