Highlights of AI Research in Europe

Abstract

AI Communications is the official partner journal of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), as reflected among others in its subtitle: the European Journal on Artificial Intelligence. EurAI is a society of societies; that is, the members of EurAI are national AI societies from all across Europe. To strengthen the connection between AI Communications and EurAI, in July 2021 we have invited each of these EurAI member societies to nominate one paper, reflecting the best research from within their society during the preceding year. Each society was free to select the criteria for their nominations. Overall, the call led to expressions of interest from 10 societies, 7 of which resulted in a submission for this special issue. All the submissions went through a fast-tracked version of the normal peer review process, which led to the acceptance of the 5 papers in this special issue. These papers, and their nominating societies, are: these works of research in