Fragile Earth:

Two key technological challenges posed by the Sustainable Development Goals are (a) how to achieve accurate, robust and scalable modeling on physical, environmental, system and societal data, and (b) how to ensure that the obtained models are socially acceptable for use in the associated policy and decision making support.

A key technological enabler for the former is theory-guided data science and scientific discovery, which by augmenting data driven modeling with domain physics and constraints, realizes both accuracy and flexibility in modeling. For the latter, leveraging the emerging techniques of trustworthy machine learning and artificial intelligence to attain the interpretability, accountability, fairness and privacy required for social adoption would be key, along with explicit consideration and inclusion of the viewpoints of policy makers.

Applications of interest include but are not limited to:

1. Food security, sustainable agricultural practices, crop yield forecasting and improvement, energy efficient and low waste food supply chain.
2. Fostering degraded landscapes to productive landscapes, clean water management, sustainable and clean energy production.
3. The future of intelligent technologies in tackling these topics in an ever urbanizing world.

Methodological contributions of interest include but are not limited to:

1. The integration of physics into data driven environmental modeling and use of advanced machine learning techniques to enhance or speed up physical models.
2. Addressing interpretability of theory guided and data driven models of environment, e.g. by incorporation of physics into causal explanation of models.
3. Privacy aware schemes for data sharing in agriculture and food systems and addressing fairness of benefit and credit assignment in data sharing for sustainability.

Additionally, we welcome cross domain and policy and paradigmatic topics:

1. Paradigms for enhancing scientific discovery through theory guided data science.
2. Data-informed Food/Energy/Water/Earth Sciences policy discussions.
3. Frameworks for helping the scientific and KDD communities to work together.

Accepted papers will be allocated to three themed sessions and a poster session. We expect presentations to last 15-20 minutes (including questions), and will prioritize submissions based on relevance, scientific rigour, and potential for societal impact.

Workshop papers will not be published as a part of the SIGKDD Conference proceedings.

The EXTENDED submission deadline is June 20th, 2020!