Artificial Intelligence, and in particular Machine Learning, is a technology that is transforming how we integrate information, analyze data and make decisions, with large impact throughout our society. Advances in AI are being felt in our economy, with significant impacts in finance, including financial markets, services, and the global financial system more broadly.

The Brazilian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Finance (BWAIF), which will have its second edition as a satellite event of the XLIII Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society, will be a forum for researchers, professionals, educators and students to present and discuss innovations, trends, experiences and evolution in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and its applications in Finance.

BWAIF will take place as a Satellite event of the SBC Congress, whose theme in 2023 is the “Opportunities and challenges of the integration of the physical and digital worlds”, has a huge relationship with the development of a society that uses digital resources for financial transactions, where large institutions have focused part of their resources for the development of “phygital” platforms,  which implies the convergence of actions in the physical, digital and social aspects of organizations.

Although being an event of the Brazilian Computer Society conference, with papers being accepted in English and Portuguese, we encourage the participation of the international community, with main presentations in English. The conference will be held in person, in João Pessoa, a beautiful beach city on the Atlantic coast, the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraiba. Being founded more than 400 years ago, it has many architectural and natural monuments, with brightly painted art nouveau architecture that hints at the city’s creative tradition. A powerful coastal sunshine keeps beaches bustling year-round in Joao Pessoa, with bars, restaurants, coconut palms, and a broad promenade along the seafront. 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

It is of interest all studies that have not been published previously and that present new ideas, discussions about existing works, practical studies and experiments relevant to the application of Artificial Intelligence in the financial area. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

– AI and Cryptocurrencies
– AI techniques for financial decision making
– AI techniques for financial forecasting  
– AI techniques for Portfolio analysis
– AI techniques for simulation of markets, economies, and other financial systems
– AI techniques for risk assessment and management
– Computational game-theoretic analysis of financial scenarios
– Ethics and fairness of AI in finance
– Explainability, interpretability and trustworthiness of AI in finance
– Infrastructure to support AI research in finance
– Multi-agent systems in finance
– Natural Language Processing and its applications in finance
– Robustness, security, and privacy of AI systems in finance
– Computational regulation and compliance in finance
– Robustness and uncertainty quantification for AI models in finance
– Synthetic Data and benchmarks for AI pipelines for financial applications
– Trading algorithms

ARTICLE FORMAT AND SUBMISSION

Articles are limited to twelve (12) pages, including text, references, appendices, tables, and figures. Articles must have a summary of a maximum of 300 words in addition to the key words. Articles can be written in Portuguese or English, using the SBC article style, available at: http://www.sbc.org.br/documentos-da-sbc/summary/169-templates-para-artigos-e-capitulos-de-livros/878-modelosparapublicaodeartigos.
It is also available at Overleaf: https://pt.overleaf.com/latex/templates/sbc-conferences-template/blbxwjwzdngr.

Works written in Portuguese must have a title, abstract and key words in English.

Submissions must be made online using the JEMS system: https://jems.sbc.org.br/bwaif2023.

The review process will be double-blind (names and institutions of the authors should be omitted in the articles). All papers submitted will be reviewed by at least two experts in the field. The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to present their papers in an oral presentation or in a poster session. All accepted papers will be published electronically, with DOI, in SBC's Open Library, SOL: http://sol.sbc.org.br.

IMPORTANT DATES

– Deadline for submission of papers: March 05th, 2023.
– Results: May 5th, 2023.
– Camera-ready submission: May 16th, 2023.
– Authors' registration: May 16th, 2023.

AUTHORS' REGISTRATION

For an accepted article to be presented and included in the events, it is necessary that at least one of the authors of the article register in the event in the professional category. Each entry in the professional category entitles to the publication of a single article, considering any of the Full SBC Conference base events or satellite events. Authors with more than one article approved at any CSBC event must pay a “publishing fee” per additional article. The amount of this fee can be seen on the CSBC 2022 registration page.

ORGANIZATION

General Organisers and the Program Committee:
Reinaldo A.C. Bianchi, FEI University Center.
Anna Helena Reali Costa, Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo.

CONTACT

Prof. Dr. Reinaldo A.C. Bianchi – rbianchi@fei.edu.br