First International Workshop on
Agents, Things and Lightweight AI for Sustainability (ATLAS)

About the Workshop

As IoT proliferates, the environmental and technical impact of billions of connected devices demands urgent attention. This workshop examines how AI-augmented agents should be designed, managed and coordinated while optimizing resource consumption and operating under frugal conditions and infrastructures. It also aims to review existing implementations of the Web of Things (WoT) standards with respect to long-term maintainability.

The workshop format will include a keynote talk, followed by long and short accepted paper presentations, based on peer-review.

Targeted audience

ATLAS targets researchers, practitioners, and policymakers interested in responsible WoT innovation.

Workshop participants will position their work within at least one of these key dimensions:

• accurate decision-making in resource-aware agent architectures
• sustainable design principles including life cycle management and modular components
• efficient agent-mediated coordination protocols taking advantage of standardization and fog/edge architectures.

Participants will leave with practical strategies for implementing sustainable agentic systems and a collaborative network committed to advancing environmentally conscious IoT solutions.

Goals of the workshop

The primary goals of ATLAS are to:

• Present cutting-edge research at the intersection of agent-based systems, IoT, and sustainability
• Identify open research challenges and future directions for frugal, standards- compliant agentic systems
• Build a community around sustainable WoT technologies

Workshop topics

The workshop topics include but are not limited to:

• Federated learning for edge intelligence
• Embedding intensive inference algorithms into constrained devices
• Predictive maintenance to reduce e-waste
• Frugal hardware-related concerns
• Ethical frameworks for sustainable AI deployment
• Resource-aware agentic LLM-based systems
• Complexity of embedded semantic Web processes
• Energy, network and/or memory management in decentralized Web-based architectures
• Deployment of IoT / WoT platforms on Constrained devices
• Lifecycle and maintenability of Cyber-Physical Systems
• Robust and resilient distributed agentic systems
• Environmental footprint of sensor and actuator-based infrastructures
• Observability and governance of agents in decentralized architectures
• Coordination architectures for agents with distributed knowledge
• Application areas such as product passports and carbon footprint tracking