At the end of each calendar year, the Academic Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ACAI) submits a report to the Executive Board of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) on its work and activities in that year. This page contains shorter versions of these reports, as well as reports by individual ACAI members on some specific activities of the committee.

ACAI Work Report for 2024

The committee began its work in October 2024. During 2024, two more board meetings were held. At the first meeting of the ACAI, the composition of the board and the chairman of the board were verified. The board at that time consisted of Vladan Devedžić, corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (chairman of the board), Miodrag Mihaljević, corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (vice-chairman), as well as four members, academicians Dušan Teodorović, Vladimir Kostić, Aleksandar Kostić and Predrag Peshko. Jasmina Veljić was elected as the technical secretary of the board. Since December 2024, Mirjana Ivanović, a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, has also been a member of the ACAI.

The President of ACAI, Vladan Devedžić, has drawn up the Work Program/Activities of the committee.

Members of the committee also proposed that at the committee meetings, through short lectures, members report to each other on new developments in certain spheres of science and art, and in connection with the use of artificial intelligence. In this regard, at the second and third meeting of the committee, two lectures were held (Vladan Devedžić, Artificial Intelligence: Basic Concepts and Important Topics, as well as Mirjana Ivanović, Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence).

Also, a proposal was made for the possibility of organizing mini-conferences, workshops, lecture series, as well as submitting proposals for a strategic project of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

The most important activity of the ACAI in 2024 was the co-organization of a conference on artificial intelligence at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, on December 26 and 27, 2024. The objective of the conference in 2024 was, as in 2023, to attract researchers from all branches of artificial intelligence from all over Serbia and neighboring countries to present their work and results. In addition to emphasizing its research character, the important features of this conference are:

• focusing exclusively on the field of artificial intelligence (i.e., not only as a special section at a conference with a wider range of topics)
• stimulating discussion on fundamental aspects of artificial intelligence
• paying special attention to new topics in artificial intelligence
• connecting techniques and results from different subfields of artificial intelligence
• bringing together a large number of researchers in the field of artificial intelligence from Serbia, the region and other countries, both those with experience and young researchers

Belgrade, December 15, 2024. President of the Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Vladan Devedžić, Corresponding Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts