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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">The CCC, in collaboration with INFORMS and ACM SIGAI, will be hosting
the final workshop of a three-part series titled, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Operations Research (OR)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">,
in late February or early March 2024, to set a course for fundamental research that needs the partnership of both disciplines. Organized by Yu Ding (Georgia Institute of Technology), Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sven Koenig (University
of Southern California), Ramayya Krishnan (Carnegie Mellon University), Radhika Kulkarni (INFORMS), and Phebe Vayanos (University of Southern California), the workshop will focus on drafting a strategic plan for increasing the AI/OR partnership and on outlining
real-world opportunities for collaboration, based on discussions from the previous two workshops.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">For this workshop, we are requesting proposals from the AI and OR
communities for compelling and inspiring grand challenge problems of a theoretical or applied nature that:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">will result in basic research on the integration of AI and OR techniques that</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">align with societal needs and national priorities with potential for real-world impact. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">We would like proposals to describe a challenge problem that will
result in the integration of AI and OR methods and articulate the AI and OR methods needed, dataset availability (if applicable), method innovation, evaluation criteria, path to applications, and the potential to result in impact on societal needs and national
priorities. Some questions to consider are:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Why do you think the two communities need to collaborate to address this challenge?</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Challenge problems can be submitted using this </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://form.jotform.com/232065901251043__;!!KwNVnqRv!AuEzMUdOtU4tyh1GLXjzCVj2AcP4aHSpkTW_g_hOlc0gHIpAljq-NYJQXEZlTgCnscp72R3qNwp6HQI$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px;text-decoration-line:none" id="OWA64839ff6-5349-0453-5047-bf43b165c492" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0" data-loopstyle="linkonly"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px;text-decoration-line:underline">form</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">.
Submissions can be written in paragraph or bullet point style formats. Your submission should convincingly explain why it satisfies points 1, 2, and 3 above and how it addresses questions A, B, and C. Some high level ideas of challenges include leveraging
optimization to mitigate bias in large language models, or using robust optimization to enhance privacy of generative AI. The deadline for submission is </span><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">September
15, 2023</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Selected submitters will be invited to participate in the third workshop
to help shape the discussion around collaboration between AI and OR communities and researchers and to help break barriers in such collaborations.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">At the final workshop, in addition to laying out challenge problems,
we will also outline additional strategies that will help both communities to impact national priorities, such as creating a joint summer school where AI and OR experts provide multidisciplinary training in AI and OR to Ph.D. students, and other ideas from
the community. The objective for the third workshop is to write a final report that lays out a blueprint for activities that increase the collaboration between the AI and OR communities. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">To learn more about the AI/OR Workshop series, please visit the </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cra.org/ccc/events/artifical-intelligence-operations-research-workshop/__;!!KwNVnqRv!AuEzMUdOtU4tyh1GLXjzCVj2AcP4aHSpkTW_g_hOlc0gHIpAljq-NYJQXEZlTgCnscp72R3qkaM0z1U$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" style="margin:0px;text-decoration-line:none" id="OWAda48afc1-4e3d-289b-3fb4-67be291187ea" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px;text-decoration-line:underline">first</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0"> and </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cra.org/ccc/events/artificial-intelligence-operations-research-workshop-ii/__;!!KwNVnqRv!AuEzMUdOtU4tyh1GLXjzCVj2AcP4aHSpkTW_g_hOlc0gHIpAljq-NYJQXEZlTgCnscp72R3qMTDZX5k$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4" style="margin:0px;text-decoration-line:none" id="OWAe8f0f70e-1bd8-afe8-3bb4-10cc93e93a05" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px;text-decoration-line:underline">second</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0"> workshop
event pages, and read the </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Filler-AIOR-document.pdf__;!!KwNVnqRv!AuEzMUdOtU4tyh1GLXjzCVj2AcP4aHSpkTW_g_hOlc0gHIpAljq-NYJQXEZlTgCnscp72R3qsOhldSM$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5" style="margin:0px;text-decoration-line:none" id="OWA0b8c8cf3-cffe-ef6a-35f8-223527ed0a01" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px;text-decoration-line:underline">Workshop
1 Report Out</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0"> and the </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/AI-OR-II-Workshop-Report-Out..pdf__;!!KwNVnqRv!AuEzMUdOtU4tyh1GLXjzCVj2AcP4aHSpkTW_g_hOlc0gHIpAljq-NYJQXEZlTgCnscp72R3qjbnIQX4$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="6" style="margin:0px;text-decoration-line:none" id="OWAdc6188a1-b9f9-6633-9c92-04947d030756" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px;text-decoration-line:underline">Workshop
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<span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Please remember to submit your ideas </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://form.jotform.com/232065901251043__;!!KwNVnqRv!AuEzMUdOtU4tyh1GLXjzCVj2AcP4aHSpkTW_g_hOlc0gHIpAljq-NYJQXEZlTgCnscp72R3qNwp6HQI$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="7" style="margin:0px;text-decoration-line:none" id="OWAb2337821-2592-9306-ab67-5db3e2f87d88" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-weight:700;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px;text-decoration-line:underline">here</span></a><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0"> by
September 15, 2023.</span></span></span></div>
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Ding</a> (Georgia Institute of Technology)</span></div>
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Van Hentenryck</a> (Georgia Institute of Technology)</span></div>
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Koenig</a> (University of Southern California)</span></div>
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Krishnan</a> (Carnegie Mellon University)</span></div>
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Kulkarni</a> (INFORMS)</span></div>
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Vayanos</a> (University of Southern California)</span></span><br>
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