<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class="">AI + HADR@NeurIPS 2020 Call for Papers</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Paper Submission Deadline: October 2<sup class=""><span style="font-size: 7pt;" class="">nd</span></sup>, 2020<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Acceptance Notification Date: October 23<sup class=""><span style="font-size: 7pt;" class="">rd</span></sup>, 2020<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Oral Presentation Video Submission Deadline: November 7<sup class=""><span style="font-size: 7pt;" class="">th</span></sup>, 2020 <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Camera-Ready” Paper Submission Deadline: December 1<sup class=""><span style="font-size: 7pt;" class="">st</span></sup>, 2020</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Submission Site: <span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AIHADRW2020" class="">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AIHADRW2020</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(60, 64, 67); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">We invite submissions for the 2020 Artificial Intelligence and Humanitarian and Disaster Relief (AI + HADR) Workshop (</span><a href="http://hadr.ai/" class=""><span style="color: rgb(26, 115, 232); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">http://hadr.ai/</span></a><span style="color: rgb(60, 64, 67); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">) at 2020 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).</span> The goal of this workshop is to bring together the AI and HADR communities to highlight existing and start future work at the intersection of these two fields.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class="">Topics</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">We welcome submissions on the topic of AI applied to HADR problems. Relevant subfields of AI include, but are not limited to:<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Machine Learning<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Computer Vision<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Robotics<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Natural Language Processing<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Information Theory<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Decision Theory<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Game Theory<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Causal Modeling<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Applied Statistics<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Data Sets/Knowledge Bases</li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Relevant problems in HADR include, but are not limited to:<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Search and rescue robotics<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Computer vision for damage assessment<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Motion planning in obstructed roads<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Disinformation management on social media</li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class="">Formatting Instructions</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Submissions will be limited to five pages of content and one page of references in the NeurIPS 2020 format. Papers may contain appendices after the sixth page to highlight additional results, figures, proofs, and other supplementary materials, but the main body of the work should be self-contained and reviewers are not required to consider appendices in their decisions. Further, other supplementary materials, such as videos or audio clips, may be submitted as supplementary materials. Again, reviewers are not required to consider these supplementary materials in their decisions.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class="">Submission Instructions</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The deadline for submission is October 2<sup class=""><span style="font-size: 7pt;" class="">nd</span></sup>, 2020 at 11:59PM Pacific Time. Submissions must be made on the hosted CMT instance at <a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AIHADRW2020" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AIHADRW2020</span></a>.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">All submissions will undergo double-blind review; Thus, please ensure that your submission is anonymized when submitted, including removing names, affiliations, contact information, and ensuring that references to your own previous work are in the third person.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class="">Review Criteria</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Submissions will be judged on:<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Their technical merit<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The clarity in conveying the importance of the work, methodology, and experimental results (if applicable)<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The relevance to the goal of the workshop.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Each submission will be reviewed by at least one member each from the AI and HADR communities to ensure both technical merit and impact are both considered.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class="">Accepted Papers</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Authors of accepted papers will be notified on October 23<sup class=""><span style="font-size: 7pt;" class="">rd</span></sup>, 2020. Upon notification, we ask that authors of accepted papers deanonymize their works, make any final changes, host their paper on the web (for instance, on arXiv), and then submit a link to where the paper is hosted to the workshop organizers by December 1st, 2020. The workshop website will then be updated with links to accepted papers.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Note that accepted papers will not be formally published. This means that:<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Authors can retain full copyright of their works<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Work contained in accepted papers are not precluded to be published in other research venues<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Submitted papers are allowed to have significant overlap with previously published or currently submitted work (in this case, please indicate overlapping works).</li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Some or all of accepted papers will be selected for oral presentations during the workshop. Because the workshop is entirely virtual this year, these oral presentations will be presented in video form. The authors will record a video of themselves giving their presentation and submit it to the program committee by November 7<sup class=""><span style="font-size: 7pt;" class="">th</span></sup>, 2020. More specific video submission instructions will be provided in the near future.</p><div class=""></div></body></html>