At the end of each calendar year, the Academy Committee for Artificial Intelligence of SASA (ACAI) creates its work plan for the next year.

2025

This text presents a general overview and plan of activities for 2025, with the note that it was not possible to examine all activities and events in detail. The reason for this is not only the complexity of the environment, which is usually cited, but also the rapid development of the field of artificial intelligence, which simply makes any precise planning on a one-year level impossible. Therefore, taking into account many unpredictable environments, this plan will be updated regularly.

Research conferences

In 2025, ACAI plans to organize again, in cooperation with the Department of Technical Sciences of the SASA and the Institute of Mathematics of the SASA, the conference Artificial Intelligence. In addition, the plan is to organize a smaller-scale national conference, or workshop, forum, panel discussion,… on a specific topic in the field of artificial intelligence or the application of artificial intelligence in a specific domain.

1. Artificial Intelligence Conference at SASA

The Artificial Intelligence conference is planned for October 2025 at SASA. The organization of the conference will be one of the most important activities of ACAI in 2025. ACAI, as a co-organizer of the conference, will try to avoid the “last-minute work” that has been done in the previous editions of the conference. Since this is partly in conflict with the already mentioned extremely rapid development of the field of artificial intelligence, which makes many research results of short-term importance, ACAI believes that putting more efforts in the organization of the conference before the summer break of 2025 is a better option.

Following the suggestion of Academician Vladimir Kostić, ACAI will try to organize the Artificial Intelligence conference as an international one in 2025. The idea is that, in the event that the enormous popularity of the field of artificial intelligence continues in the future and that the interest in the conference in 2023 and 2024 remains, the conference will be organized biennially as an international event. In other years, the conference would have a national character, with guests from abroad.

2. A smaller-scale conference/workshop, focused on a specific topic in the field of artificial intelligence

According to the previously adopted Work Program of the AI for Artificial Intelligence, Academician Predrag Peško proposed and agreed to personally engage and contact medical doctors (scientists from the field of medicine) who apply artificial intelligence in their work to organize a panel discussion or round table on this topic.

Popularization and dissemination of the work of the AIIA

Frequent invitations to the ACAI president to participate in television shows discussing the topic of artificial intelligence were conveyed to the ACAI members. The plan for 2025 is to respond to such invitations either directly or by delegating researchers who would adequately promote the work of ACAI in such appearances.

This type of popularization and dissemination of ACAI’s work is not the only one planned. Another idea is to organize visits by ACAI members to the SASA Branches in Niš and Novi Sad, as well as to the SASA Center in Kragujevac, during which they would negotiate the activities of the Branches and the Center with selected local experts.

Guest lecturers from Serbia and abroad

In accordance with financial constraints, ACAI plans to organize lectures by local and foreign experts in various fields of artificial intelligence at SASA in 2025. These lectures can be for ACAI members, but also for all those interested from SASA.

One of the activities of this type is lectures that young experts from Serbia with expertise in artificial intelligence would give at SASA. The idea is that doctoral candidates, or recently promoted doctors of science in the field of artificial intelligence, would present themselves to ACAI and SASA members by presenting the results of their work and thus inform ACAI and SASA as a whole about their research or applications of that research.

Cooperation with the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (MASA)

In 2025, ACAI will be indirectly involved in the organization of the international conference Signal processing – state-of-the-art and perspectives, planned by MASA for mid-2025, at the invitation of Academician Igor Đurović from MASA. At the proposal of Academician Đurović and ACAI, SASA accepted the role of co-organizer of the conference without financial commitments, and some members of ACAI should also take part in the conference.

Cooperation with educational higher education institutions in Serbia

Academician Dušan Teodorović suggested that ACAI from time to time makes proposals regarding changes in curricula at higher education institutions in Serbia, taking into account the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

ACAI plans to start this activity in 2025. ACAI is aware of the slow pace of changes in curricula at the level of their accreditation, but the acquaintance of ACAI members with teachers willing to make appropriate changes to the plans of the subjects they teach raises hope that such an activity can bear fruit. In order for this idea to come to life, the President of ACAI has initiated an activity of this kind and its implementation is expected in 2025.

External associates of ACAI

During 2025, ACAI will consider the possibility of expanding the committee to include external associates. They would be from the ranks of researchers from Serbia interested in the field of ACAI work, and would assist ACAI members in the implementation of selected committee activities and in the dissemination and popularization of the committee’s work.

Publishing activities

Preparations are underway for the publication of the Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence lecture series, which was held at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts at the end of 2023. The papers have been submitted, as well as the reviews, and the proposal for publishing the proceedings has been submitted to the publishing plan of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2025.

Belgrade, December 15, 2024 President of the Committee for Artificial Intelligence

Vladan Devedžić