[agents] The 2nd International Workshop on Democracy and AI (DemocrAI 2023) in conjunction with IJCAI 2023

[Reyhan Aydogan]

Dear All,

Please circulate the CFP within your networks and encourage your
colleagues, collaborators, and students to submit.

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*CFP: The 2nd International Workshop on Democracy and AI (DemocrAI 2023)*
in conjunction with IJCAI 2023

August 19th, 2023
Sheraton Grand Macao, Macao, S.A.R
https://sites.google.com/kyoto-u.ac.jp/democrai2023

Online crowd-based platforms are currently driving the creation of new
forms of democracy. These new platforms are primarily designed to address
the limitations caused by geographical, cultural, religious, and ethnic
divides. AI-assisted democracy is a promising idea that pledges to take
full advantage of AI's capabilities in supporting the collaborative
activities of humans, in gathering, sharing, and coming up with solutions
to wicked problems that humanity is currently facing.

The success of AI-based democracy depends on many criteria, such as the
availability of online platforms for democratic decision-making, the
research on formal theories of democratic collaboration, the methodologies
to evaluate democratic deliberation, the existence of a socio-psychological
understanding of democracy, and the identification of the ethical and legal
issues surrounding the integration of AI in society. Such processes are
complex and often involve various epistemic constraints along the
concurrent activities of the stakeholders. Given the premise that AI systems
should be, in principle, smart enough to alleviate these issues, various
technologies could be combined to this end, and include multiagent systems,
machine learning, game theory, mechanism design, argumentation theories,
computational social choice, preference elicitation, case-based reasoning,
and so forth.

The *2nd International Workshop on Democracy and AI (DemocrAI 2023)
*investigates
novel pathways to democracy using agent-based methodologies and tools,
relevant formal theories, and ethical, legal, and socio-psychological
insights on democracy and its future. The DemocrAI 2023 workshop calls for
novel and insightful contributions pertinent to the following topics:

   - Technologies and Platforms for Group Decision-Making
   - Theories of Decision-Making, such as Formal Argumentation, Game
   Theory, and Mechanism Design
   - Multiagent Systems, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, and
   Distributed Ledgers
   - Wisdom of the Crowds, Collective Intelligence, and Superminds
   - Liquid, Digital, Cyber, Hyper, and Augmented Forms of Democracy
   - Social Choice Theory and Computational Social Choice
   - Social Sciences, Sociology, Social Psychology, and Political science
   - Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues in Collective Decision-Making
   - Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, and Human-Based Computation
   - The Sustainable Development Goals or Global Goals and Artificial
   Intelligence

Researchers and practitioners in various communities of AI, autonomous
agents, multiagent systems, sociology, and social psychology, are actively
working on these issues. This workshop aims to bring together people from
these communities to learn about each other's approaches to AI-empowered
democracy, encourage the cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas, and foster
long-term research collaborations.

The research on AI-based democracy is highly relevant to some of the
critical objectives of the International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI) <https://ijcai-23.org/> community. The DemocrAI 2023
workshop will be an excellent opportunity for researchers and experts who
wish to share their preliminary insights on any workshop topics. There are
currently few workshops in AI venues geared toward agent-based crowd
decision-making, as most workshops focus on narrower topics in AI. Our
workshop is paramount to spurring wider discussions on novel agent-based
tools and technologies of crowd collaboration with real social implications.

*Important Dates*

   - *Submission Deadline*: May 8th, 2023, Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
   - *Acceptance Notification*: June 5th, 2023
   - *Camera-ready Deadline*: July 19th, 2023
   - *DemocrAI2023*: August 19th, 2023 (full-day workshop)

*Organization*

*Organizing Committee*

   - Dr. Rafik Hadfi, Associate Professor, Kyoto University, Japan
   - Dr. Takayuki Ito, Professor, Kyoto University, Japan
   - Dr. Susumu Ohnuma, Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan
   - Dr. Shun Shiramatsu, Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

*Advisory Committee*

   - Dr. Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
   - Dr. Shiyao Ding, Kyoto University, Japan
   - Dr. Sofia Sahab, Kyoto University, Japan

*Program Committee Members*

   - Dr. Shigeo Matsubara, Osaka University, Japan
   - Dr. Jawad Haqbeen, Kyoto University, Japan
   - Dr. Wen Gu, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
   - Dr. Ryuta Arisaka, Kyoto University, Japan
   - Dr. Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan
   - Dr. Shun Okuhara, Mie University, Japan
   - Dr. Weihua Li, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
   - Dr. Yi Yang, Hefei University of Technology, China
   - Dr. Nor Khalid, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
   - Dr. Fuyuan Xiao, Chongqing University, China
   - Dr. Reyhan Aydogan, Ozyegin University, Turkey
   - Dr. Takanobu Otsuka, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
   - Dr. Shantanu Chakraborty, AVEVA Australia Pty, Australia

*Submission Guidelines*

Submissions must be written in English, prepared using the new CEUR-ART
paper style (1 column), formatted in PDF, and submitted via EasyChair. An
Overleaf template for LaTeX users is available here
<https://www.overleaf.com/project/5e76702c4acae70001d3bc87>. You can also
download <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip> an offline version with
the style files for LaTeX and MS Word. The DemocrAI 2023 workshop offers
two types of submissions:

   - *Regular papers*: 6 pages long, including the references. Regular
   paper submissions must contain enough substance to be cited in future
   publications and may not have appeared before.
   - *Extended abstracts*: 3 pages long, including the references. Extended
   abstracts could cover topics of interest to the DemocrAI audience,
   including ideas, positions, preliminary results, or depictions of systems
   and applications.

Due to the double-blind review policy, please do not include author
information or acknowledgments in the submissions.

*Submission website*

All papers must be submitted via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=democrai2023

*Review Process and Acceptance Standards*

The workshop welcomes submissions of original research relevant to the
topics described above. At least* three reviewers* from our PC members will
review all submitted papers through a *double-blind peer-review process*.
The acceptance standards include its technical soundness, novelty, impact,
and readability.

All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference, and *at
least one author of each accepted paper must travel to the IJCAI venue in
person. Multiple submissions of the same paper to other IJCAI workshops are
forbidden.* The host conference, IJCAI, strongly discourages remote or
hybrid presentations during the workshops for any talks (including invited
talks).

*Proceedings*

All regular papers will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org <https://ceur-ws.org/> for
online publication. Papers will be published under a *CC BY 4.0* license
that will be included in an open-access CEUR Workshop Proceedings volume,
indexed by both Scopus and DBLP.

*Distinguished Paper Awards*

Distinguished paper awards will be presented to outstanding regular papers,
including an award for the *best crowd award t*hat incorporates the
workshop theme and is selected based on the decision of the workshop
attendees.
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