Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable development is the core value of human society to create a better world for living. The rapid industrialization and urbanization has significantly changed human activities and left great impacts to the natural environment. Major populations are densely resorting to metropolitan cities, people are trailing on the streets by cars, industry production emits high volume of pollutants into air and rivers. These common everyday activities spoil our environment, contaminate the farms, change the mountain landscape and forest ecosystem. All these have exceeded the capacity of our mother earth. For the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has made a great progress in processing the data intelligently and efficiently. The applications of AI, especially deep learning, seep into every piece of our lives, from unmanned aerial vehicle, autonomous driving, resource-constrained production, humanoids and unmanned factory, to green logistics, circular economy, technology agriculture, air quality forecasting, personal digital assistant, and playing chess. We anticipate a next big thing by exploring the possible crossovers between sustainability and AI. The purpose of the special issue is to call attention to the marriage between “sustainability” and “artificial intelligence” and to boost the synergy between the two streams. The publication of our special issue will position itself at the research frontier for promoting sustainability by applying artificial intelligence algorithms. To augment the readership of this special issue, we work in collaboration with the Information Technology and Applications Conference 2022 - ITAC 2022 (https://itac2022.gm.cute.edu.tw/english) to be held at China University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan on March 16, 2022.  The best papers selected from this conference will be recommended to submit an extended version for possible publication in this special issue. We also welcome contributions (research and review articles) covering a broad range of topics on sustainability and artificial intelligence, including (though not limited to) the following:

• Artificial intelligence
• Internet of things
• Industry 4.0
• Knowledge management
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Image processing
• Mobile computing
• Sustainable development
• Network management
• Big data
• E-commerce
• Data mining
• Wisdom of life
• Cloud computing
• Information security
• Applied industrial technology
• Renewable energy
• Fintech
• sustainability and AI
• sustainability and IoT
• sustainability and information security
• sustainability and network management
• sustainability and data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
• sustainability and heuristic and metaheuristic
• sustainability and E-commerce
• sustainability and Human-Computer Interaction

Prof. Dr. Peng-Yeng Yin
Guest Editor

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