[agents] 2nd CfP 1st. International Workshop on Responsible Autonomous and Adaptable Systems (RAAS)

[Virginia Dignum]

  RAAS19


    1st. International Workshop on Responsible Autonomous and Adaptable
    Systems (RAAS)

Co-located with The 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive 
and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2019) <http://saso2019.cs.umu.se/> and 
The 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) 
<https://icac2019.cs.umu.se/home/>, Umeå, Sweden,
June 16 – 20, 2019

Autonomous adaptive systems increasingly function as part of our society 
and interact with humans in many contexts. The development and use of 
these systems raises fundamental ethical, legal, and societal concerns, 
which are of vital importance to our future. Issues of safety, fairness, 
explainability, and accountability must be addressed at the different 
stages of design and development taking into account different contexts 
of application and a wide range of capabilities. These issues are not 
only of a philosophical and legal nature, but must be addressed from the 
perspective of computational architectures, software development, and 
formal verification and validation, including the development of methods 
and tools, consultation and training activities, and governance and 
regulatory efforts.

The workshop on Responsible Autonomous and Adaptable Systems (RAAS) will 
bring together researchers from amongst others autonomous systems, 
artificial intelligence, robotics, ethics, philosophy, robotics, 
psychology, regulatory governance studies to discuss and work on the 
complex challenges concerning the design and regulation of autonomous 
and adaptable systems as these become part of our daily life. In 
particular, RAAS are developed for societal benefit, using verifiable 
and accountable processes, and which impact is governed by fair and 
inclusive mechanisms and institutions.

Submissions addressing the following topics are particularly relevant 
for the workshop:

  * Computational methods for understanding, developing, and evaluating
    ethical agency
  * Ethically informed design methodologies for autonomous adaptable systems
  * Formalisms (logics, algebras, argumentation, case-based reasoning
    etc.) for representing and reasoning about ethics, legal constraints
    and social norms
  * Engineering techniques for autonomous systems to incorporate ethical
    principles and social norms
  * Verification and validation of ethical behaviour
  * Explainable behaviour solutions
  * Human-in-the-loop approaches for ethical and societal principles
  * Normative multi-agent systems, including organisations, norms,
    institutions, and socio-cognitive technical systems
  * Social simulation approaches for evaluation of autonomous adaptable
    systems and socio-technical systems
  * Applications of RAAS

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      Important dates:

Workshop submission deadline:     April 19, 2019
Acceptance notification:                    May 17, 2019
Workshops date:                                 June 16, 2019

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      Submission guidelines:

Submissions can have up to 10 pages formatted according to the standard 
IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide 
<https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html>.

Submission page via EasyChair: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=raas19.

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      Organizing committee:

  * Virginia Dignum, Umeå University, Sweden
  * Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, UK
  * Marija Slavkovic, University of Bergen, Norway
  * Harko Verhagen, Stockholm University, Sweden

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