December 8th-9th, 2022
Munster Technological University
Paper Submission Deadline Extended - 5th October 25th Sep. 2022
Acceptance Notification for all Papers - 19th Oct. 1st Nov. 2022
Camera Ready Submissions (all tracks) - 26th Oct. 11th Nov. 2022
Registration and Programme Accommodation and Travel
The 30th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS2022) will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science of Munster Technological University (MTU). The conference will be an in-person event this year.
With regular conferences dating back to 1988, the AICS Conference is Ireland’s primary forum for researchers with interests in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. While once a niche area, the fields of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, which encompass Data Analytics, Information Retrieval, and Machine Learning, are now at the forefront of Irish computing research and industry.
Bio: Professor O'Sullivan is an award-winning academic with more than 25 years experience working in artificial intelligence. He is Professor of Constraint Programming at the School of Computer Science & IT at University College Cork and a member of its Governing Body. He is founding Director of both the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at UCC and Director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in AI. In July 2018 Barry was appointed Vice Chair of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI. He is a Fellow and a past President of the European AI Association. He is also a Fellow and a member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He chairs the Advisory Board of the GRACE project at Europol, and advises the institute at KULeuven (Belgium) and the Computational Sustainability Network, a network of universities in the USA. He is Senior Advisor for Technology Policy at INHR in Geneva. In 2019 Professor O’Sullivan was appointed by Ireland’s Minister for Health to the Health Research Consent Declaration Committee. In 2020 he was appointed Chair of the Oversight Board of Health Data Research UK (North), led by the University of Liverpool. In 2021 he was, again, appointed by the Minister for Health as Chair of the National Research Ethics Committee for Medical Devices. In 2022 he was appointed by the Minister for Trade Promotion, Digital & Company Regulation to the Enterprise Digital Advisory Forum. Show More
Abstract: There has been an increasing interest in the role of ethics in artificial intelligence and in the notion of Trustworthy AI, in particular. The European Commission has invested significant effort in setting out its strategy and its vision for the importance of delivering Trustworthy AI, including the proposal of a new regulatory instrument, the AI Act. In this talk I will give an overview of the policy context in relation to Trustworthy AI. I will give an overview of the current European Union’s AI Act and its origins. While most of the discussion around AI tends to be in the civilian domain, I will also give a brief overview of the diplomacy of AI. Show More
Bio: Aedín Culhane is a Professor of Cancer Genomics and Director of the Limerick Digital Cancer Research Center in the University of Limerick, School of Medicine. She is a computational biologist with expertise in multimodal data integration, statistical genomics and clinical bioinformatics. She has over 20 years’ experience in cancer genomics, with 15 of these in the Data Science Department at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University. She is a member of the Human Cell Atlas project that will describe the molecular profile of every human cell. This is an enormous undertaking as its estimated there are 37.2 trillion cells in the human body. Aedin is a leader in the Bioconductor community, a global open source, open development platform written in R for analysis of genomics data. She leads the eHealth-Hub for Cancer for federated digital health research in cancer. Her recent research focuses on development of matrix factorization approaches, machine learning and statistical algorithms for integrative analysis of multi-modal high dimensional sparse molecular data. Show More
Abstract: Principal component analysis (PCA), is a popular matrix factorization method that is often the first step in machine learning pipelines. It is a relatively fast dimension reduction method that can scale to large datasets. I will review PCA, the relationship between PCA and singular value decomposition, the difference between PCA of a correlation and covariance matrix, the impact of scaling, log-transforming, and standardization, and how to recognize a horseshoe or arch effect in a PCA. I will describe extensions to PCA and matrix factorization approaches for the integration of multi modal data. I will discuss why pre-processing or weighting datasets within a joint or multi-dataset decomposition should be considered. These discussions will be applied to high dimensional sparse single cell molecular data in cancer, where datasets are typically thousands of rows by tens of thousands to millions of columns. Show More
Bio: Lindsey is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Researcher. She joined a nascent ML R&D team at Qualcomm in 2018 and since that time she has led multiple projects in ML-based CAD/EDA which have impacted global SoC design process for teams across the globe leading to significant savings in time-to-market, compute and NRE cost. She holds four pending patents related to this work and consults on a variety of ML-driven initiatives across the company in application ranging from digital and analog design to 5G to licensing. In 2021, she was honored by the Global Semiconductor Association (GSA) as the inaugural Female Up-And-Comer for her exceptional contributions toward the development, innovation, growth, and success in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Lindsey was a 4-year scholarship athlete at Stanford University where she won two tennis national team championships and was honored as an Elite 89 Award Finalist. After graduating with distinction in Economics, she obtained her master’s degree in Computer Science with an emphasis in Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University. While in the master’s program Lindsey was a teaching assistant and a research associate for Chris Re and Jure Leskovic with an emphasis in deep representation learning. Show More
Abstract: Since its inception, Qualcomm has led mobile SoC integration with the continuous production of next-generation IP. More recently this leadership in IP and integration has scaled beyond mobile to support everything from automotives to smart cities and home to personal devices with high performance low power on-device intelligence for everything wireless. This talk will highlight the challenges presented in the face of increasingly diverse and complex product applications and customer specifications; how state-of-art machine learning is and can be employed to address these challenges; and how one can prepare themselves to make an impact in the space of ML-based SOC Design. Show More
We invite submissions in the broad areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science to communicate the advances and achievements in these fields. Areas of interest include, but are not restricted to:
We seek articles which report on in-use experiences (design, engineering, deployment, utility, and challenges) of AI-based, and cognitive-based.
We invite three types of submissions.
All accepted Full-paper and Student Track submissions will be presented at the conference, either orally or as posters, and included in the online conference proceedings. At least one author of each submission will be required to register for, and attend, the conference. All submissions must be made via the Easychair system online here.
Full Paper Track papers and Student Track papers must be submitted in Springer LNCS format (single column proceedings), which is also the format required for the final camera-ready copy. A sample LaTeX document in this format is available here.
NECTAR Track submissions must follow the following template found here.
Instructions for 1-Page Extended Abstracts can be found here.
All accepted submissions in Full Paper Track and Student Paper Track will appear in online proceedings published at Communications in Computer and Information Science by Springer.All indicated times are EOD, 23:59 Irish time.
Conference venue location: Nexus Building, MTU
Gala dinner location: The River Lee Hotel
08:30 - Registration
09:15 - 09:30 - Welcome, conference opening
09:30 - Session #1
11:00 - Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:30 - Session #2
13:15 - Lunch & Poster Session
14:00 - Keynote
14:45 - Session #3
16:15 - Coffee Break & Poster Session
16:45 - Session #4
19:30 - Gala Dinner @ The River Lee Hotel
08:45 - Session #5
10:00 - Keynote
10:45 - Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:15 - Session #6
12:45 - Qualcomm Talk
13:15 - Lunch & Poster Session
14:00 - Session #7
15:30 - Closing Remarks & conference closed
15:45 - AIAI Community Meeting (invitation-only boardroom session)
PC Member | Affiliation |
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James Vincent Patten | University of Limerick |
Enrique Naredo | University of Limerick |
Malachy Eaton | University of Limerick |
Eoin Grua | University of Limerick |
Meghana Kshirsagar | University of Limerick |
Pepijn Van de Ven | University of Limerick |
John Nelson | University of Limerick |
Ciaran Eising | University of Limerick |
Katie Crowley | University of Limerick |
Suzanne Egan | University of Limerick |
Muftah Fraifer | University of Limerick |
Conor Hayes | University of Galway |
Josephine Griffith | University of Galway |
Pilib O Broin | University of Galway |
Colm O'Riordan | University of Galway |
Paul Buitelaar | University of Galway |
Michael Schukat | University of Galway |
James McDermott | University of Galway |
John P. McCrae | University of Galway |
Frank Glavin | University of Galway |
Elham Alghamdi | University College Dublin |
Declan Delaney | University College Dublin |
Arjun Pakrashi | University College Dublin |
Padraig Cunningham | University College Dublin |
Ellen Rushe | University College Dublin |
Georgiana Ifrim | University College Dublin |
Brendan Murphy | University College Dublin |
Brian Mac Namee | University College Dublin |
Simon Caton | University College Dublin |
Barry Smyth | University College Dublin |
Rob Brennan | University College Dublin |
Derek Greene | University College Dublin |
Fintan Costello | University College Dublin |
Fred Cummins | University College Dublin |
Mark Keane | University College Dublin |
Aonghus Lawlor | University College Dublin |
Rem Collier | University College Dublin |
Ruihai Dong | University College Dublin |
Barry O'Sullivan | University College Cork |
Guillaume Escamocher | University College Cork |
Begum Genc | University College Cork |
Ken Brown | University College Cork |
Andrea Balogh | University College Cork |
Mark O Sullivan | University College Cork |
Gregory Provan | University College Cork |
Derek Bridge | University College Cork |
Darryl Charles | Ulster University |
Paul Mc Kevitt | Ulster University |
Debbie Rankin | Ulster University |
Michaela Black | Ulster University |
Ivana Dusparic | Trinity College Dublin |
Lucy McKenna | Trinity College Dublin |
John Gilligan | Technological University Dublin |
Bianca Schoen Phelan | Technological University Dublin |
Eoin Rogers | Technological University Dublin |
Anh Duong Trinh | Technological University Dublin |
Bujar Raufi | Technological University Dublin |
Pierpaolo Dondio | Technological University Dublin |
Bojan Božić | Technological University Dublin |
Sarah Jane Delany | Technological University Dublin |
Lucas Rizzo | Technological University Dublin |
Robert Ross | Technological University Dublin |
Hung Ngo | Technological University Dublin |
James Usher | Technological University Dublin |
Susan Mckeever | Technological University Dublin |
Luca Longo | Technological University Dublin |
Elizabeth Hunter | Technological University Dublin |
Xhemal Zenuni | SEE University in Tetovo |
Conor Lynch | Nimbus Research Centre (MTU) |
Ted Scully | Munster Technologicial University |
Ryan Donovan | Munster Technologicial University |
Ignacio Castineiras | Munster Technologicial University |
Kashif Ahmad | Munster Technological University |
Ruairi O'Reilly | Munster Technological University |
Alison O'Shea | Munster Technological University |
Niall O Mahony | Munster Technological University |
Brian Murphy | Munster Technological University |
Daniel Riordan | Munster Technological University |
Diarmuid Grimes | Munster Technological University |
Haithem Afli | Munster Technological University |
Alex Vakaloudis | Munster Technological University |
Christian Beder | Munster Technological University |
Louise Connell | Maynooth University |
Ralf Bierig | Maynooth University |
Diarmuid O'Donoghue | Maynooth University |
Deirdre Desmond | Maynooth University |
Anila Mjeda | Lero |
Tiziana Margaria | Lero |
Luis Quesada | Insight Centre for Data Analytics (UCC) |
Nic Wilson | Insight Centre for Data Analytics (UCC) |
Julia Dietlmeier | Insight Centre for Data Analytics |
Steve Prestwich | Insight Centre for Data Analytics |
Diego Carraro | Insight Centre for Data Analytics |
Ken Duffy | Hamilton InstituteMaynooth University |
Takfarinas Saber | Dublin City University |
Alan Smeaton | Dublin City University |
Suzanne Little | Dublin City University |
Lifeng Han | Dublin City University |
Gareth Jones | Dublin City University |
Marija Bezbradica | Dublin City University |
Julio Noe Hernandez Torres | Dublin City University |
Liam Marnane | University College Cork |
Seamus Dowling | Atlantic Technological University |
Harshvardhan J. Pandit | ADAPT Centre (TCD) |
Brian Davis | ADAPT Centre |
Paul Walsh | Accenture |
Alexey Tarasov | 2K Games Dublin |
If you are interested in sponsoring AICS2022 then please download the AICS2022 sponsorship prospectus. A sincere thanks to our sponsors to date:
# | Venue Dist. | Conf. Travel | Prices |
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The River Lee Hotel* | 4km | Bus 205/220/208 | From €240 |
The Kingsley Hotel | 2.5km | Bus 220/201 | From €189 |
Jurys Inn Cork | 5.5km | Bus 205/220/208 | From €179 |
* Note the Gala dinner is taking place in the River Lee Hotel. 15% off best available rate on the day of booking - booking reference for the River Lee is CCGM081222 and guests can contact cork@doylecollection.com to book or call the hotel direct quoting reference number (Subject to availability).
# | Venue Dist. | Conf. Travel | Prices |
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Lancaster Lodge | 4.1km | Bus 205/208/220 | From €149 |
Redclyffe Guesthouse | 3.3km | Bus 205/220 | From €95 |
Shandon Bells Guest House | 3.7km | Bus 205/220 | From €125 |
# | Venue Dist. | Conf. Travel | Prices |
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Bru Bar & Hostel | 5.6km | Bus 205/220/208 | From €37 |
Sheilas Cork Hostel | 5.7km | Bus 205/220/208 | From €26 |
Cork city is accessible via train, bus and air. Kent train station is located on the Lower Glanmire Road and is connected to MTU via bus no. 205, 208 and 220 (205 is the most direct). For payment it is best to use Leapcard or have the cash fare (€1.90). The main bus station is on Parnell Place (https://goo.gl/maps/Pe92FEQ1tRFzdULP8), with bus no. 205, 220 or 208 best connected to MTU. The Aircoach and Gobus stops in Cork on Lower Glanmire road, with best connectivity to MTU being bus no. 205.
In general bus no. 205, 208 and 220 go in the direction of MTU from the city center with 205 stopping the closest.