Horizons of AI: Ethical Considerations and Interdisciplinary Engagements

This book navigates the intricate landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) integration, exploring its ethical dimensions and interdisciplinary engagements. Spanning sectors such as engineering, health care, robotics, industry, law, economics, education, transportation, and multimedia, it transcends mere technicalities. Embracing a multidisciplinary approach, the book sheds light on AI's transformative potential and practical implications. By blending theoretical underpinnings with real-world case studies, it offers a nuanced understanding of AI and its applications. Covering machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, data analytics, and robotics and control, it equips researchers, professionals, and enthusiasts with the tools to navigate the evolving AI landscape responsibly.

Mina Farmanbar is Associate Professor at the computer science department at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. She has been Active Researcher at UiS and Akershus University Hospital since 2017. Notably, she is recognized among Norway's top 100 women in the AI field, a testament to her impactful contributions, and is currently Deputy Leader of the Applied Intelligence and Emerging Technologies (AIxTech) research group, at the University of Stavanger. She has been Program Committee Member of NORA—Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium since 2021—and Program Committee Member and Proceedings Chair of the Springer International Conference on Frontiers of AI, Ethics, and Multidisciplinary Applications (FAIEMA). Her research interests span a wide range of topics within the field, including but not limited to data science, natural language processing, and machine learning applications.

Maria P. Tzamtzi is Electrical and Computer Engineer with Ph.D. on automatic control systems. She is Professor of automatic control systems at the Department of Digital Industry Technologies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Vice-Head of this department, and Member of the Robotics, Automatic Control and Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory of NKUA. She has served as Director of the NKUA’s MSc Program on “Augmented Textual Studies: Text Encoding and Text Mining”, as well as Member of the steering committees for two M.Sc. Programs of NKUA on “Advanced Robotics and Control Systems” and on “Digital Humanities”. She has received a 2023 Olympiad Medal from the International Olympiad Committee in Engineering Science of the conference Olympiad in Engineering Science 2023. Her experience on these fields comprises authorship of research papers, participation in several research projects, as well as long teaching experience in pregraduate and postgraduate programs.

Klaus Schoeffmann is Associate Professor at the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC) at Klagenfurt University, Austria. His research focuses on video retrieval and interactive multimedia systems, particularly in the medical domain. He has co-authored numerous publications on various topics in multimedia, and he has co-organized several international conferences, workshops, and special sessions in the field of multimedia. Furthermore, he is Co-Founder of the Video Browser Showdown (VBS)—an international live evaluation competition of interactive video search. 

Nikolaos D. Kouvakas is Associate Professor of automatic control in motion and navigation systems, at the Department of Digital Industry Technologies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), in Greece. He is also Member of the Robotics, Automatic Control and Cyberphysical Systems Laboratory of NKUA and Deputy Scientific Coordinator of the M.Sc. Program in "Advanced Control Systems and Robotics". Dr. Kouvakas has more than twenty years of teaching experience in undergraduate and postgraduate level as well as research experience in the areas of automatic control systems, robotics, and process control systems. His research interests include process modeling, distributed control systems, control in wastewater treatment plants, networked control systems, industrial control, robot control, and AI applications in robotic and industrial systems. He has authored several scientific publications in the above fields.

Ajit Kumar Verma is Professor at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Haugesund, Norway, since March 2012, and he was Professor/Senior (HAG) Scale Professor with the Reliability Engineering/Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay for around 15 years with a research focus in reliability, risk and safety engineering, and computational intelligence applications. He has been associated with various Springer projects as Author/Editor of books, Series Editor of many book series, Patron/Editor-in-Chief of journals, guest edited over 12 special issues of various journals, and has been on the editorial board of several journals.