Description:
Planning is becoming a mature field in terms of base
techniques and algorithms to solve goal- oriented tasks. It
has been successfully applied to many domains including
classical domains such as logistics or mars rovers, or more
recently in oil and gas, as well as mining industry.
However, very little work has been done in relation to
financial institutions problems. Recently, some big
financial corporations have started AI research labs and
researchers at those teams have found there are plenty of
open planning problems to be tackled by the planning
community. For example, these include, trading markets,
workflow learning, generation and execution, transactions
flow understanding, risk management, fraud detection and
customer journeys.
Workshop Topics:
The workshop includes - but is not limited to - the
following topics:
- planning in trading and markets
- process mining of organizational workflows
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planning, execution and simulation of organizational
processes
- explainable planning for financial applications
- goal reasoning in the context of financial services
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goal and plan recognition from customers behavior or
transactions history
- human-AI teaming in organizational processes
-
links between planning and other disciplines related to
finance (e.g., behavioral economics, econometry, markets,
...)
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use cases, benchmarks and applications of planning for
financial services
- plan similarity and plan diversity
- anomaly detection using planning techniques
- planning with unstructured information
Submission Guidelines:
We invite two kinds of submissions:
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Full papers, making an original contribution (up to 9
pages including references)
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Short papers presenting industry challenges or outlining
ideas around planning for financial services (up to 5
pages including references);
Please note that papers submissions should not be anonymous,
and will undergo single-blind peer review. Every submission
will be reviewed by members of the program committee
according to the usual criteria such as relevance to the
workshop, significance of the contribution, and technical
quality. Submissions should be formatted using the ICAPS
style. The final submission must be in PDF. Papers should be
submitted on Easychair at:
https://www.easychair.org/my/conference?conf=finplan2021
Key Dates:
- Submission deadline: 28 May, 2021 (UTC-12 timezone)
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: 25 June, 2021
- Camera-ready upload: TBD, 2021
- Workshop: 4-6 August, 2021
Organizers:
- Shirin Sohrabi (IBM Research)
- Sameena Shah (J.P. Morgan AI Research)
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Daniel Borrajo (J.P. Morgan AI Research, consultant)
- Daniele Magazzeni (J.P. Morgan AI Research)
Program committee (to be completed):
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Daniel Borrajo (J.P. Morgan AI Research, consultant, USA)
- Amedeo Cesta (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
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Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
- Mark Feblowitz (IBM, USA)
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Fernando Fernández (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,
Spain)
- Sarah Keren (Harvard University, USA)
- Daniele Magazzeni (J.P. Morgan AI Research, UK)
- Fabio Mercorio (Università di Milan-Bicocca, Italy)
- Sameena Shah (J.P. Morgan AI Research, USA)
- Shirin Sohrabi (IBM, USA)
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Biplav Srivastava (University of South Carolina, USA)