CALL FOR PAPERS The 2nd International Workshop on EXplainable, TRansparent Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (EXTRAAMAS 2020) In conjunction with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2020) Auckland, New Zealand, 9 - 13 May 2020 https://extraamas.ehealth.hevs.ch/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description ========== The main aim of this second “International workshop on EXplainable TRansparent Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems” (EXTRAAMAS) is four-folded: -to establish a common ground for the study and development of explainable and understandable autonomous agents, robots and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), -to investigate the potential of agent-based systems in the development of personalized user-aware explainable AI, -to assess the impact of transparent and explained solutions on the user/agents behaviors, and -to discuss motivating examples and concrete applications in which the lack of explainability leads to problems, which would be resolved by explainability. Contributions are encouraged in both theoretical and practical applications for transparent and explainable intelligence in agents and MAS. Papers presenting theoretical contributions, designs, prototypes, tools, subjective user tests, assessment, new or improved techniques, and general survey papers tracking current evolutions and future directions are welcome. ---------------------------------------------- Topics ====== _Explainable Agents and Robots: -Explainable agent architectures -Personalized XAI -Explainable & Expressive robots -Explainable human-robot collaboration -Reinforcement Learning Agents -Multi-modal explanations _XAI & Ethics: -Social XAI -AI, ethics, and explainability -XAI vs AI _XAI & MAS: -Multi-actors interaction in XAI -XAI for agent/robots teams -Simulations for XAI _Interdisciplinary Aspects: -Cognitive and social sciences perspectives on explanations -HCI for XAI -Legal aspects of explainable agents -Explanation visualization _XAI Machine learning and Knowledge Representation: -Bridging symbolic and subsymbolic XAI -Knowledge generation from interpretations -Explanation visualization -Explainable knowledge generation ---------------------------------------------- Important Dates ============== - Deadline for Submissions: 29 February 2020 (extended) - Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2020 - Camera-ready: 1 April 2020 - Workshop: 9 - 13 May 2020 ---------------------------------------------- Submission ========= Submissions will be (single-blindly) reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee, who are experts in the field. The acceptance of the submitted papers will depend on their quality, relevance, and originality. To conduct this process, the chairs will rely on easychair to make the reviewing procedure traceable, transparent and accessible. In the case of accepted papers characterized by relevant demands (e.g., clarifications, changes, corrections) set by the reviewers, the final acceptance will be subject to their accomplishment. Accepted papers will be published in the Springer post-proceedings Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). Participants are therefore invited to submit papers up to 16 pages in length (4 pages + 1 page reference for demo papers), addressing the topics of the workshop. Papers must be edited using the LNCS format (applying the LNCS post-proceedings template) and have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair submission page. Papers can either be: -Full papers (max. 16 pages LNCS style). -Demo papers (max. 4 pages LNCS style + 1 page references). Demo papers should describe implementations of explainable agents and multi-agent systems or explainable AI methods and algorithms that are applicable to explainable agents. The work presented in the demo paper should be practically applicable. The source code of the implementation should be shared, for example by providing a web link. The maximal length of a demo paper is 4 pages plus 1 page for references. Demos will be presented in a similar manner as ordinary papers; however, a demo presentation should be interactive and ideally show the running implementation "live". ---------------------------------------------- Post-proceedings ================ Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. ---------------------------------------------- Workshop Chairs =============== - Dr. Davide Calvaresi, HES-SO, Switzerland - Dr. Amro Najjar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Prof. Kary Främling, Umea University Sweden and Aalto University, Finland - Prof. Michael Winikoff, Victoria University Wellington ---------------------------------------------- Advisory Board ============== - Prof. Virginia Dignum, Umea University, Sweden - Prof. Tim Miller, School of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne - Prof. Michael Ignaz Schumacher, HES-SO, Switzerland - Prof. Leon Van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg ---------------------------------------------- Assistant Chairs ================ - Giovanni Ciatto, Università di Bologna - Timotheus Kampik, Umeå University, Signavio GmbH Publicity Chairs ================ - Yazan Mualla, Univ. de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France - Dr. Avleen Malhi, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology ---------------------------------------------- Program Committee ================= To be announced.