AI for Social Good-Explainability and Sustainability of Decision-Making Practices
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2025) | Viewed by 2003
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Interests: explainable Artificial Intelligence; computational intelligence; intelligent modelling; expert system design; evolutionary optimisation
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Interests: AI for social good; AI fairness; AI explainability; smart agriculture; visual analytics; behavior analytics; human-computer interaction
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Interests: digital transformation; digital processing visualization; E-commerce; business intelligence; m-Health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
AI and technology are changing the world we live in. The United Nations (UN) has published an initiative that laid out 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) covering far-reaching challenges related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace, and justice. AI can be used as a tool to address the challenges related to SDGs. For example, AI can be applied to provide unbiased insights into the candidate pool for job applications. This would address the inequality challenge. Additionally, it is important to apply the AI algorithms ethically and responsibly for social good. Academia has the responsibility to pave the way towards discovering decision-making solutions that are fair, transparent, and explainable and making sure that AI solutions are sustainable. Explainable AI is one of the ways to bring transparency to the decision-making process to ensure the solutions provided through technological systems are sustainable.
This Special Issue focuses on providing solutions and algorithms to increase the explainability and transparency of the AI systems to ensure sustainability. Both theoretical and actual applications of AI algorithms and XAI that highlight the alignment with sustainability and applicability for social good are welcome. This includes local and global XAI methods, their application for problem solving, and solutions to enhance the performance of the decision-making algorithms. The solutions addressing problems utilizing different forms of data (images, numerical, etc.) that incorporate XAI algorithms and demonstrate the contribution to sustainability and social good, are welcome.
We are mainly interested in manuscripts that apply AI algorithms and decision-making processes to address challenges related to sustainable, socio-economic, scientific, and integrated approaches for sustainable development, including applying AI to SDG challenges and sustainability issues.
Dr. Niusha Shafiabady
Dr. Jianlong Zhou
Dr. Robert M.X. Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- explainable AI
- AI for social good
- XAI applications
- XAI algorithms
- AI transparency
- sustainability
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