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Künstliche Intelligenz im Mittelstand (KI-KMU 2024)
Workshop number five at the INFORMATIK FESTIVAL 2024, the 54th Annual Conference of the German Informatics Society
The workshop “Künstliche Intelligenz im Mittelstand” (Artificial Intelligence in SMEs) at the INFORMATIK FESTIVAL 2024, the 54th Annual Conference of the German Informatics Society, aims to bring together AI researchers and users, promote knowledge transfer between and among the two groups and make the subject of AI in SMEs more tangible.
The general use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in German companies is gaining ground over various business processes. More and more small and medium-sized companies see AI as an opportunity for the German economy.
The potential of AI in SMEs lies in many areas, such as the optimization of distribution and logistics, increasingly targeted advertising, and direct or indirect enhancement of sustainability. The latter is, for instance, achievable through an increased process efficiency (economic sustainability), a reduction of costs, the avoidance of unnecessary resource exploitation, and the reduction of scrap and environmental impact (ecological sustainability). Technologies such as intelligent automation, sensor technology, and assistance systems are particularly important here.
The workshop “Künstliche Intelligenz im Mittelstand (KI-KMU 2024)” aims to bring together AI researchers and users, promote knowledge transfer between and among the two groups, and make the subject of AI in SMEs more tangible. The workshop will focus on two areas. On the one hand, research approaches will be presented that are strongly related to the challenges of AI in SMEs or that deal with lightweight AI applications that are easily integrable in SMEs. On the other hand, completed or ongoing pilot projects can also be presented, providing an initial insight into the impact of AI in practice and highlighting the challenges that arise when implementing AI.
The target group is researchers and users (especially SMEs) of AI approaches in various application areas.
Call for Papers
Important deadlines
- Submission deadline for workshop contributions: May 26, 2024
- Notification of authors: June 24, 2024
- Submission deadline for LNI contributions: July 7, 2024
- Workshop: September 26, 2024, presumably all-day
Workshop subjects
Admitted contributions to the workshop are not limited to the technical aspects of AI but include ethical, economic, and organizational aspects and challenges of AI applications in small and medium-sized enterprises.
Possible topics and application fields could be the following (non-exhaustive list):
- Production
- Mobility
- Autonomous Driving
- Logistics
- Transportation
- Smart Factory
- Robotics
- Medicine / Healthcare
- Administration / Municipalities
- Energy
- Process Automation and Optimization
- Supply Chain Management
- Human Resources
- Change Management
- IT Security
- E-Commerce
- Business Intelligence
- Predictive Analytics
- Prescriptive Analytics
- Predictive Maintenance
- Sustainable AI
- Explainable AI
- Generative AI
- Text Mining
- Natural Language Processing
- Simulation
- Visualization
- Process models
- Ethical aspects of AI
- UX and KI
Submission
Submissions must be in PDF format. The LNI template must be used for the contributions.
Contributions should not exceed the following scope:
- Full paper: 12 pages
- Short paper: 8 pages
- Work-In-Progress paper: 3-5 pages
- Practice contributions from the industry: 3-5 pages
The accepted languages are German and English. Submissions can be made via easyChair.
Submissions will be reviewed and evaluated by at least two representatives of the program committee as part of a selection process. The program committee will be composed of representatives from research and a significant number of representatives from industry, especially SMEs.
The selected submissions will be published in Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) and presented by at least one author at the workshop.
Organizing Committee
- Natalja Kleiner, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe
- Prof. Hans Brandt-Pook, Hochschule Bielefeld
- Benjamin Çoban, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe
- Dr. Frederik Bäumer, Hochschule Bielefeld
- Katja Alexandrakis, FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe
- Dr.-Ing. Iuliana NichersuFZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe
Program Committee
This year’s workshop will be supported by a broad consortium whose partners will be contributing their respective networks to the workshop:
- Transferzentrum für Digitalisierung, Analytics & Data Science Ulm
- Network for applied AI at the HTWK Leipzig
- Zentrum für künstliche Intelligenz Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, University of Rostock
- Technologietransferzentrum Digitale Intelligenz Oberfranken, TH Nürnberg
- Hochschule Bielefeld
- FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe
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