2025 NAIS Symposium

The 2025 Symposium of the Norwegian AI Society will take place from June 18 to June 19 at the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. The symposium aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field of Artificial Intelligence from Norway and Scandinavia to present on-going work and discuss the future directions of AI. With the symposium NAIS provides a forum for networking among researchers as well building links with related research fields, practitioners and businesses.

Dates

Submission Deadline: April 11, 2025 April 18, 2025

Notification Date: May 14, 2025

Camera-Ready Deadline: May 28, 2025

Symposium date: June 18 - 19, 2025

Call for Papers

Contributions are welcome from all areas of Artificial Intelligence and topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Machine Learning,
  • Knowledge Representation,
  • Robotics
  • Planning and Scheduling
  • Natural Language Processing,
  • Computer Vision,
  • Search Algorithms,
  • Multi-Agent-Systems,
  • Industrial Applications, and
  • Philosophical and Ethical Foundations.

Submission Instructions

We welcome and encourage the submission of high-quality papers that have not already been published elsewhere. We welcome submissions on all aspects of AI. Submissions will be subject to single-blind peer review by the programme committee. They will be evaluated based on relevance, clarity, significance, originality, soundness, reproducibility, scholarship, and quality of presentation.

Generative AI: The use of AI systems to generate text for inclusion in a submission is only allowed if its role is properly documented in the manuscript (e.g., when reporting on experiments on such systems). However, the use of AI-powered systems to assist with the polishing of human-authored text is permissible.

Full papers should be written in English, formatted according to the CEUR Workshop Proceedings style, and not exceed 10 pages plus bibliography. Author's instructions, are available in this Overleaf template. We also invite submission of position papers. They must not exceed 5 pages and they should relate to an ongoing research, but can also present work that has been presented elsewhere. Please state clearly where the paper has been presented before. Position papers will be presented by the authors alongside regular papers. Selected papers will be invited for an oral or poster presentation. All papers containing original work will be included in the proceedings - resubmissions will be mentioned in the preface.

We highly encourage early stage researchers and PhD students to submit their work.

Paper submission is electronic via CMT at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NAIS2025/.

The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the CEUR Free Open-Access Proceedings for Computer Science Workshops. These proceedings are approved as a scientific publication channel at level 1 in Norway.

Program Outline

Time Presentation
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
11:00 - 12:00 Registration and Light Lunch
12:00 - 12:15 Welcome and Introduction
Robert Jenssen and Kerstin Bach
12:15 - 13:00 Keynote: Elisabeth Wetzer
Representation Learning for Multimodal Image Registration and Retrieval
Abstract: Combined information from different imaging modalities enables an integral view of a specimen, offering complementary information about a diverse variety of its properties. To efficiently utilize such heterogeneous information, spatial correspondence between acquired images has to be established. The process is referred to as image registration and is highly challenging due to complexity, size, and variety of multimodal biomedical image data. In this talk, I will give an overview of commonly used techniques from classic image analysis and learning-based approaches, their limitations and how to efficiently combine tools from both worlds, particularly when very small training data is available.
Biography: Elisabeth Wetzer is associate professor in machine learning in the Machine Learning Group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and part of the SFI Visual Intelligence and SFF Integreat. Prior to joining UiT in 2024, she did her PhD in Image Processing at Uppsala University in Sweden and worked as a bioinformatician in translational studies on the tumor microenvironment at Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Her research focuses on developing deep learning methodology, with particular focus on biomedical application. As most of these applications suffer from small training data or limited access to labels, she works on methodology which exploits domain context, symmetries in the data, or constraints which may be drawn from other modalities or classic image processing techniques.
13:00 - 16:30 Technical Session I
16:30 - 17:00 Dissertation Award 2024 The winner of the Dissertation Award 2024 (Dissertation Award 2024) will receive the certificate and give a presentation of the PhD project.
17:00 - 18:00 NAIS General Assembly (chair: Odd Erik Gundersen)
20:00 Symposium Dinner
Thursday, June 19, 2025
9:00-10:30 Technical Session II
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break and Poster Session
10:30 - 11:30 Technical Session III
11:30 - 12:15 Invited Talk II
TBD
12:15 - 13:00 Networking Lunch

Technical papers will have a 20 min presentation, please leave 3-5 min for a discussion.

Registration

The registration for the symposium is now open: registration page

Fees

Student (Master, PhD): 1500 NOK

Regular Participant: 2300 NOK

Fees include participation, symposium dinner as well as coffee and lunch breaks. During the registration, members of the Norwegian AI society (see details here) will receive a NOK 500 discount during the registration process. Please note that there will be no possibility to refund registration fees if you register for the event and cannot attend.

Organizers

Program Committee Members

  • Changkyu Choi, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  • Laurence Dierickx, University of Bergen
  • Fred Godtliebsen, UiT The Artic University of Norway
  • Odd Erik Gundersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Nektaria Kaloudi, SINTEF Digital
  • Benjamin Kille, NTNU
  • Helge Langseth, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Bjørn Magnus Mathisen, SINTEF
  • Kiran Raja, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Signe Riemer-Sørensen, SINTEF
  • Arnt Salberg, Norwegian Computing Center
  • Bjørnar Tessem, University of Bergen
  • Samia Touileb, University of Bergen
  • Valeria Vitelli, University of Oslo
  • Elisabeth Wetzer, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  • Kristoffer Wickstrøm, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  • Zhirong Yang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Venue

The symposium will take place at The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. UiT The Arctic University is a medium-sized research university that contributes to knowledge-based development at the regional, national and international level. UiT is the northernmost university of the world.

The 2025 NAIS Symposium will take place at the following venues at UiT in Tromsø: the June 18th program will be at Auditorium 3 (Teorifagbygget hus 6) and the June 19th program will be at Auditorium 2 (Teorifagbygget hus 1)

Picture: Jakob Bjørvig Henriksen
Picture: Kjetil Rydland
Picture: Jakob Bjørvig Henriksen

Accomodation

Tromsø is a popular place and hotels sell out easily. Make sure you book your hotel early. Most Norwegian organisations have agreements with hotel chains for fixed prices. Please make sure to check the options with your organisation.
A selection of hotels in the center of Tromsø are the following:

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