[socios-spr] CfP: 1st International Workshop on New Foundations for Human-Centered AI

[Pedro U Lima]

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=  NeHuAI-2020
=  1st International Workshop on New Foundations for Human-Centered AI
=  June 9, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Part of ECAI-2020)
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                     * First Call for Papers *

SYNOPSIS
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In June 2018, the European Commission has appointed a "AI High Level
Expert Group" (AI-HLEG) to support the implementation of the European
Strategy on Artificial Intelligence.  One of the first results of the
AI-HLEG has been to deliver ethics guidelines on Artificial Intelligence
(https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/ai-alliance-consultation/guidelines).
These guidelines put forward a human-centered approach to AI, and list
seven key requirements that human-centered, trustworthy AI systems
should meet, summarized by the following headers:

1. Human agency and oversight
2. Technical robustness and safety
3. Privacy and data governance
4. Transparency
5. Diversity, non-discrimination and fairness
6. Societal and environmental wellbeing
7. Accountability

Many of today's most popular AI methods, however, fail to meet these
guidelines: making them compliant is a scientific endeavor that is as
crucial as it is challenging and stimulating.  Systems based on deep
learning are a case in point: while these systems often provide
impressive results, our ability to _explain_ these results to the user
is very limited, challenging requirements 4 and 7; in most cases we lack
ways to formally _verify_ their correctness and assess their boundary
conditions, challenging requirement 2; and we don't yet have methods to
allow humans to _collaboratively_ influence or question the decisions,
challenging requirement 1.  A similar situation applies to many other
popular AI methods.

This workshop will collectively address the fundamental questions of
what scientific and technological means we have to make AI systems
"human-centered" in terms of the above guidelines, what means we still
miss, and how we should address this gap.


SUBMISSIONS
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Contributions are seeked on new foundations for building Human-Centered
AI systems, able to comply with AI-HLEG recommendations.  More specific
topics include, but are not limited to:

- Explainable AI
- Verifiable AI
- Collaboration between humans and AI systems
- Integrating model-based and data-driven AI
- Integrating symbolic- and sub-symbolic AI
- Mixed initiative AI-Human systems
- Understanding and naturally interacting with humans
- Understanding and interaction in complex social settings
- Reflexivity and expectation managament
- Integrating Learning, Reasoning and Acting in AI systems

Papers should be formatted according to the ECAI2020 formatting style,
available at the ECAI2020 website (ecai2020.eu), and should not exceed
seven pages excluding references.  Submissions are not anonymous.

Submit your paper by February 18 via Easychair here:

  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nehuai2020


ORGANIZERS
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Alessandro Saffiotti (Orebro University, Sweden)
Luciano Serafini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy)
Paul Lukowicz (DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Giuseppe Amato (ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy>
Joao Costeira (IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Fosca Giannotti (ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy>
Pedro U Lima (IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Michela Milano (University of Bologna, Italy)
Jacques Robin (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France>
Alberto Sanfeliu (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Paolo Traverso (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy)
Florian Zimmermann (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany>


IMPORTANT DATES
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 Feb 25: Paper submission deadline
 Apr 6:  Acceptance notification
 Jun 8:  Workshop


SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS
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This worskhop is jointly organized by AI4EU (ai4eu.eu), the EU landmark
project to develop a European AI on-demand platform and ecosystem; and
by Humane-AI (humane-ai.eu), the EU FET preparatory action devoted to
designing a European research agenda for Human Centered AI.

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