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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Jie Zhang<span></span></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Murat Şensoy<span></span></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Trust is
critical in building effective AI systems. It characterizes the elements that
are essential in social reliability, whether this be in human-agent
interaction, or how autonomous agents make decisions about the selection of
partners and coordinate with them. Many computational and theoretical trust
models and approaches to reputation have been developed using AI techniques
over the past twenty years. However, some principal issues are yet to be
addressed, including bootstrapping; causes and consequences of trust;
trust propagation in heterogeneous systems where agents may use different
assessment procedures; group trust modelling and assessment; trust
enforcement; trust and risk analysis, etc. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Increasingly,
there is also a need to understand how human users trust AI systems that have
been designed to act on their behalf. This trust can be engendered through
effective transparency and lack of bias, as well as through successful
attention to user needs. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">The aim of
this special section is to bring together world-leading research on issues
related to trust and artificial intelligence. We invite the submission of
novel research in multiagent trust modelling, assessment and enforcement, as
well as in how to engender trust in and transparency of AI systems from a
human perspective. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">The scope of the theme includes:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Trust in Multi-Agent Systems: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">socio-technical
systems and organizations; service-oriented architectures; social networks;
and adversarial environments</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Trustworthy AI Systems: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">detecting
and addressing bias and improving fairness; trusting automation for
competence; understanding and modelling user requirements; improving
transparency and explainability; and accountability and norms</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">AI for combating misinformation: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">detecting and preventing
deception and fraud; intrusion resilience in trusted computing; online fact
checking and critical thinking; and detecting and preventing collusion</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Modelling and Reasoning: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">game-theoretic models of
trust; socio-cognitive models of trust; logical representations of trust; norms
and accountability; reputation mechanisms; and risk-aware decision making</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Real-world Applications: e-commerce; security; IoT; health;
advertising; and government.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Submissions:
November 1, 2018<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Preliminary
decisions: January 15, 2019<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Revisions:
April 1, 2019<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Final
decisions: May 15, 2019<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Final
versions: June 15, 2019<span></span></span></p>
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date: Fall 2019<span></span></span></p>
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Email Address: <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><a href="mailto:trustai.toit@gmail.com" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">trustai.toit@gmail.com</a></span><span></span></span></p>
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of Computer Science, North<span></span></span></p>
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State University<span></span></span></p>
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