[IISE Faculty List] call for chapters by women led investigative teams research on sustainability and AI

[Alice Smith]

Posted on behalf of the book editors - this is a great opportunity for you and your students to become part of a book on Sustainability and AI research with an emphasis on women led investigative teams.  Alice Smith (Auburn University)
We cordially invite you and your collaborators (if applicable) to submit a chapter covering your recent work in the fields of AI and sustainability. Subject to peer review, your contribution will be included in a new volume of the Springer book series Women in Engineering and Science<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fseries%2F15424%2Fbooks%3Fpage%3D1&data=05%7C01%7Csmithae%40auburn.edu%7Cdf16d08239254639ef2508dad6c6b680%7Cccb6deedbd294b388979d72780f62d3b%7C1%7C0%7C638058446390715870%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Q1ZvxvLLF%2FWITAtlVe0Fr0infOkYRVnSj0KLrKKJm%2BQ%3D&reserved=0>, co-edited by Dr Alina Patelli and Prof Aniko Ekart.
The book series' selling point
The Springer book series Women in Engineering and Science<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fseries%2F15424%2Fbooks%3Fpage%3D1&data=05%7C01%7Csmithae%40auburn.edu%7Cdf16d08239254639ef2508dad6c6b680%7Cccb6deedbd294b388979d72780f62d3b%7C1%7C0%7C638058446390715870%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Q1ZvxvLLF%2FWITAtlVe0Fr0infOkYRVnSj0KLrKKJm%2BQ%3D&reserved=0> promotes the accomplishments of female researchers and practitioners working in STEM. The various volumes in the series illuminate key contemporary contributions to critical areas of engineering and science, made by women and their collaborators. The salient focus of the series is to showcase success stories that inspire other women to start, continue or expand their STEM work providing theoretical insights into current world problems, building tools and applications aimed at addressing global challenges and developing methodologies and frameworks designed to speed up progress towards achieving critical targets in a principled, sustainable manner. To that end, we invite contributions from female lead authors, yet impose no restrictions on their collaborators and co-authors.
Highlights
The series aims to:

  *   Communicate high quality research on topics essential to the wellbeing of humanity
  *   Increase the impact of STEM work by disseminating it to the international readership of a prestigious publisher
  *   Provide role models to early career women scientists working in STEM (to that end, the non-traditional author biographies emphasise the development of women from the beginning of their professional paths up to achieving established status)
This volume
Artificial Intelligence is at the forefront of technological advancement towards a sustainable future. However, when deployed in the real world, AI powered systems are notoriously avid consumers of energy resources, offsetting part or all of the sustainability benefits they are intended to yield (for additional context, a well-articulated, multi-faceted analysis of the relationship between AI and the environment is available here<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Farticle%2F10.1007%2Fs43681-021-00043-6%23%3A~%3Atext%3DIn%2520this%2520paper%2520I%2520propose%2Cecological%2520integrity%2520and%2520social%2520justice&data=05%7C01%7Csmithae%40auburn.edu%7Cdf16d08239254639ef2508dad6c6b680%7Cccb6deedbd294b388979d72780f62d3b%7C1%7C0%7C638058446390872090%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=J6k%2B4KwoPl4ucyRDUXBxewDTFuFG8XAItKF2xlnXc3w%3D&reserved=0>). We thus propose "AI and Sustainability" as a topic for a new volume to be included in the Women in Engineering and Science<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fseries%2F15424%2Fbooks%3Fpage%3D1&data=05%7C01%7Csmithae%40auburn.edu%7Cdf16d08239254639ef2508dad6c6b680%7Cccb6deedbd294b388979d72780f62d3b%7C1%7C0%7C638058446390872090%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3UPeCpr3zW%2Bhf35ku%2FrrkZx262OCDBljj%2B84GTclMfE%3D&reserved=0> series. Our aim is to promote women-lead innovation in the safety-critical field of sustainable AI developed to address the sustainability challenge at all levels (local, regional, national, continental and planetary).
Highlights
This volume aims to:

  *   Promote women-lead innovation in the safety-critical fields of sustainable AI, AI for sustainability and their intersection
  *   Disseminate high quality contributions filtered through a thorough peer review process
  *   Inspire the next generation of researchers by providing them with role models
Benefits of publishing in this volume
Your contribution will inspire women to start, continue or expand their STEM work, thus speeding up progress in a field critical to the wellbeing of humanity. The other benefits you will gain as an author:

  *   Reputation A rigorously peer-reviewed chapter published with Springer
  *   Visibility Exposure to Springer's international readership (e.g., chapter Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Early Detection of Viral Outbreaks<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Fchapter%2F10.1007%2F978-3-030-17819-2_5&data=05%7C01%7Csmithae%40auburn.edu%7Cdf16d08239254639ef2508dad6c6b680%7Cccb6deedbd294b388979d72780f62d3b%7C1%7C0%7C638058446390872090%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YeGhCwuHy7NwG5lr9G5QXgsRMAPPDDDZ%2FUq90CF6sI4%3D&reserved=0> was accessed 7527 times and cited 144 times since its publication in 2019)
  *   Feedback Fellow scientists' comments on your work
  *   Citizenship An opportunity to be a role model for female scientists
Authors' input
Your contribution as an author will comprise:

  1.  A chapter proposal describing high quality recent research connected to the volume topic. We welcome work that is:

  *   Theoretical (architectures, methodologies, fundamental science, etc.)
  *   Applied (fully tested or proof of concept)
  *   A position paper
  *   Another type of relevant contribution

  1.  Two double blind reviews of the submissions of other authors
Timeline
Expressions of interest should be emailed to a.patelli2 at aston.ac.uk<mailto:a.patelli2 at aston.ac.uk>, by the 15th of December 2022 and should include your chapter's:

  *   Working title
  *   Abstract
  *   Initial list of authors, including their short biographies, written as role modelling pieces (examples attached) and envisaged individual contributions, highlighting the way the co-authors supported, extended, built on or applied the lead author's work
We appreciate that the list of authors, their bios and their individual contributions may change as the chapters are being prepared. We will get back to you by the end of January 2023 with next steps. The tentative deadline for the submission of complete chapter drafts is the 31st of July 2023. The two reviews assigned to each author should be completed by the 30th of October 2023. The full timeline will be confirmed in January.

Kind regards,
Dr Alina Patelli
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