Strategic Research and Innovation Roadmap

TAILOR Strategic Research and Innovation Roadmap (SRIR) aims to boost research on Trustworthy AI by clearly defining the major research challenges. TAILOR SRIR is written by a Roadmap Editorial Board (REB) from dedicated partners. This REB was established during the first TAILOR General Assembly, and will be renewed whenever deemed necessary, favouring the diversity of points of view. It will be in particular open to key players of other subcommunities of AI research, should they wish to contribute. Since the AI landscape is moving very fast, TAILOR SRIR will be updated regularly and provisions made to perpetuate it beyond TAILOR.

SRIR V2 (released 2024)

While the first version of the SRIR focused on the identification of key research topics from an academic viewpoint, the second version of the SRIR extends the first SRIR to include industrial needs and the prioritisation of the research topics identified. It allows for an effective operationalisation of well-defined research topics, via a guiding roadmap for a wide range of industrial application domains.

The SRIR V2 supports professionals to make in-depth choices on their future research topics, and to make the budgets and resources available for specific research areas. Additionally, the SRIR can be used by any other entity or organisation with ambitions to innovate in the areas of trustworthy AI, learning, optimization, and reasoning. To facilitate this, the SRIR is designed to provide guidance through the overall landscape of Artificial Intelligence and related techniques. For such entities and organisations, the SRIR V2 not only shows techniques that warrant further development, but also shows several clear examples how those techniques can be applied to specific domains.
Lastly, the roadmap can be used by domain experts to sharpen their ideas as well as focus areas. The overview presented via the roadmap provides guidance on potential research areas to focus on, as well as on the current status of those research areas. These insights aid the decision making process on the feasibility of ideas.

Editorial Board V2

Editor: Cor Veenman, TNO; Co-editors: Roberta Calegari (UNIBO), Barteld Braaksma (CBS), and Fredrik Heintz (LiU).

Full text V2

SRIR V1 (released 2022)

The first version of the TAILOR Strategic Research & Innovation Roadmap has been published, and work is starting on an update (version 2). This task will be done by the TNO team, which has been extended with Cor Veenman and Judith Dijk. In the updated version, attention will be paid to how TAI and LOR are interacting – very good inputs for this have been collected in a workshop organized by partner UNIBO (Michela Milano and Roberta Calegari). Also, the Theme Development Workshops will be included in the SRIR v2. The most challenging part will be to create a real ‘roadmap’ and not just a sketch of the ‘landscape’.

Contact: Michela Milano (michela.milano@unibo.it), task leader, and Marc Schoenauer (marc.schoenauer@inria.fr), WP leader.

V1 Roadmap Editorial Board

(as of April 4, 2022)

Extended Roadmap Editorial Board

Each WP 3-8 involves activities related to the SRIR. The Extended REB includes all people involved in these activities in their respective WPs.