[agents] 2nd Workshop on Computational Machine Ethics

[Vivek Nallur]

Apologies for any cross-posting. I wanted to spread the news about a
workshop on Computational Machine Ethics, held in conjunction with KR 2023
<https://kr.org/KR2023/>

*Second International Workshop on Computational Machine Ethics (CME 2023)*

Held in conjunction with KR 2023 <https://kr.org/KR2023/>
Half day, 2-4 Sep 2023 (TBD)

Workshop web site: https://sites.google.com/view/cme2023/home
Paper Submission web site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=kr2023



*Call for Papers*
*Overview*
The 2nd Computational Machine Ethics (CME) Workshop will be held in
conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Principles of
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2023). It will provide a forum
for discussing recent research on methodological development in machine
ethics and its impact on human societies. With the successful development
of cognitive machines in a diverse range of application scenarios, there is
an urgent need to enable these machines to behave morally following the
behavioural norms and ethical principles established in human societies.
Machine ethics is thus a subfield of AI ethics concerned with implementing
moral and ethical behaviours in cognitive machines, i.e., to develop
computational approaches to ensure ethical consideration in AI
applications. In this way, cognitive machines will be adequately equipped
with the moral and ethical competence to prevent physical, emotional or
psychological harm and to maximise the benefits they can provide to
society. In recent years various approaches have been developed, which can
generally be categorised into logic-based formulations, learning-based
methods and hybrid models. Nevertheless, compared to the extensive
discussion in the press regarding the dangers of AI and rapid development
of frameworks for regulating the ethical use of AI, machine ethics remains
a relatively less explored field. In particular, how to represent ethical
principles and reason about the best course of action for real-life
scenarios in a generalisable way largely remains an open question.

Continuing from the 1st CME Workshop that was held in conjunction with KR
2021, the 2nd CME workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers from
academia and industry to exchange ideas and techniques in the area of
machine ethics, to generate new ideas in the intersection of knowledge
representation and reasoning and machine/deep learning, to promote
widespread awareness of machine ethics in the AI community as well as
identifying new research directions in the area. Besides regular research
papers, we also welcome vision papers, demonstration papers and papers
showcasing industry applications.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

   - Computational modelling of morality and ethics
   - Explicit and implicit ethical agents
   - Logic-based approaches to machine ethics
   - Knowledge representation of ethical principles
   - Machine learning-based approaches to machine ethics
   - Natural language processing for descriptive ethics
   - Integration of symbolic and sub-symbolic models
   - Commonsense reasoning and its application to machine ethics
   - Explainability of ethical reasoning
   - Formal verification of machine ethics
   - Development of machine ethics in cognitive robot programs
   - Robot learning for ethical reasoning

*Organising Committee*

   - Maurice Pagnucco, UNSW, Australia
   - Yang Song, UNSW, Australia
   - Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, UK

*Program Committee*

   - Michael Anderson, University of Hartford, USA
   - Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Sorbonne University, France
   - Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada
   - Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen, Germany
   - Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University, China
   - Emiliano Lorini, University Paul Sabatier, France
   - Katina Michael, Arizona State University, USA
   - Vivek Nallur, University College Dublin, Ireland
   - Abhaya Nayak, Macquarie University, Australia
   - Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
   - Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

*Important Dates*

Paper submission: 31 May 2023
Paper notification: 4 July 2023
Workshop date and time: 2-4 Sep 2023 (TBD)

*Submissions*
We welcome and encourage the submission of original, previously unpublished
research and also have a recently published research track, similarly to
the main conference of KR 2023. Submissions should be 3-6 pages (including
figures, references, etc.) and formatted according to the KR 2023
guidelines. Submission is now open in EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=kr2023, as a special track under
KR 2023.



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Dr. Vivek Nallur
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