<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px">Hi all,</p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px">Hope you had a fun AAAI deadline! </p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px">This is the final call for papers for XAIP @ ICAPS 2020, the 3rd International Workshop on Explainable AI Planning. <font color="#ff0000">Submissions close on Sept 11 UTC-12. </font></p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px">More details about the workshop and submission instructions can be found here: <a href="http://ibm.biz/xaip2020">ibm.biz/xaip2020</a>.You can also explore the program from previous iterations of the workshop <a href="http://xaip.mybluemix.net/#/explore">here</a> and read more about the emerging landscape of XAIP <a href="http://xaip.mybluemix.net/#/landscape">here</a>.</p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px">This year we are exploring a special theme regarding the <b>UX of XAIP</b>, in addition to traditional topics in explainable planning, to recognize the inseparable role of user interfaces in the explanation process. This year we are also exploring opportunities to cross-pollinate with the <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/xai2020/home" target="_blank">XAI Workshop at IJCAI 2020</a>. As part of this effort, authors of <b>relevant </b>accepted papers in either venue will have an option to present in the poster session of the other venue as well. <br></p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px"></p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px"></p><p></p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px">The detailed CFP is available below.<br></p><div style="box-sizing:inherit;padding-left:30px;padding-right:30px"><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px"><font color="#444444" style="font-size:16px">------------------------------</font><font color="#444444" style="font-size:16px">------------------------------</font><font color="#444444" style=""><span style="font-size:16px">---------------------------------<br></span></font><span style="font-size:large;font-family:"Work Sans",sans-serif">3rd International Workshop on Explainable AI Planning (XAIP)<br></span><font color="#444444" style="font-size:16px">------------------------------</font><font color="#444444" style="font-size:16px">------------------------------</font><font color="#444444" style="font-size:16px">---------------------------------<br></font><font color="#444444" style="font-size:16px">Collocated with ICAPS 2020, Nancy, France. </font><font color="#9900ff" style="font-size:16px">21-23 Oct 2020.<br></font><font color="#444444" style="font-size:16px">Home: </font><span style="font-size:16px">

</span><a href="http://ibm.biz/xaip2020" style="font-size:16px">ibm.biz/xaip2020</a><br><font color="#444444" style="font-size:16px">------------------------------</font><font color="#444444" style="font-size:16px">------------------------------</font><font color="#444444" style="font-size:16px">---------------------------------</font><br></p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px"><font color="#9900ff">COVID-19 Update:</font><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000000">As you might know, ICAPS 2020 has been postponed to 21-30 October, and will be fully virtual, in light of the COVID-19 outbreak. XAIP 2020 (collocated with ICAPS 2020) has also been pushed back accordingly. Submissions are still open with a revised deadline of </font><font color="#ff0000">September 11st UTC-12</font><font color="#000000">. </font><br><br><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">XAI-20 Update: </span>This year we are exploring opportunities to cross-pollinate with the <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/xai2020/home" target="_blank">XAI Workshop at IJCAI 2020</a>. As part of this effort, authors of accepted papers in either venue will have an option to present in the other venue as well. More details about this will be made available after the respective paper acceptance notifications.<br></p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px"><font color="#444444">------------------------------</font><font color="#444444">------------------------------</font><font color="#444444">-----------------------</font><br></p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px"></p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px"><font color="#444444">As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly being adopted into application solutions, the challenge of supporting interactions with humans is becoming more apparent. Partly this is to support integrated working styles, in which humans and intelligent systems cooperate in problem-solving, but also it is a necessary step in the process of building trust as humans migrate greater competence and responsibility to such systems. The challenge is to find effective ways to characterize, and to communicate, the foundations of AI-driven behavior when the algorithms and the knowledge on which those algorithms operate are far from transparent to humans. While XAI at large is primarily concerned with black-box learning-based approaches, model-based approaches are well suited — arguably better suited — for an explanation, and Explainable AI Planning (XAIP) can play an important role in helping users interface with AI technologies in complex decision-making procedures. </font></p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px">After the success of previous workshops on XAI and XAIP — e.g. at <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://home.earthlink.net/~dwaha/research/meetings/ijcai17-xai/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,115,180);box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">IJCAI 2017</a>, at <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://home.earthlink.net/~dwaha/research/meetings/faim18-xai/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,115,180);box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">IJCAI 2018</a>, and at <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://kcl-planning.github.io/XAIP-Workshops/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,115,180);box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">ICAPS 2018-2019</a> — the mission of this workshop is to mature and broaden this community, fostering continued exchange on XAIP topics at ICAPS. Apart from <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/xai2020/home" target="_blank">XAI</a>@IJCAI, the planning specific XAIP workshop also runs parallel to sister venues like <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://extraamas.ehealth.hevs.ch/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,115,180);box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">EXTRAAMAS</a>@AAMAS and <a href="https://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/XLoKR20/" target="_blank">XLoKR</a>@KR, as part of this broader community around explainable AI. In order to broaden the XAIP community at ICAPS, this year we include an additional set of topics regarding the role of user interfaces in XAIP acknowledging the inseparable role of interfacing in explanations. </p><h3 style="font-family:"Work Sans",sans-serif;font-size:1.5rem;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;line-height:1.25;margin:20px 0px 10px">Topics</h3><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px">The workshop includes – but is not limited to – the following topics:</p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Core XAIP</span></p><ul style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px 20px;padding:0px 0px 0px 20px;list-style-position:initial"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">representation, organization, and memory content used in an explanation</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">the creation of such content during plan generation or understanding</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">generation and evaluation of explanations</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">contrastive explanations</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">the way in which explanations are communicated and personalized to humans (e.g., plan summaries, answers to questions)</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">the role of knowledge and learning in explainable planners</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">human vs AI models in explanations</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">links between explainable planning and other disciplines (e.g., social science, argumentation)</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">use cases and applications of explainable planning</li></ul><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">The UX of XAIP</span></p><ul style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px 20px;padding:0px 0px 0px 20px;list-style-position:initial"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">User interfaces for explainable automated planning and scheduling<ul style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0px 30px;padding:0px 0px 0px 20px;list-style:disc"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">Plan and schedule visualization</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">Mixed initiative planning and scheduling</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">Emerging technology for human-planner interaction</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">Metrics for human readability or comprehensibility of plans and schedules</li></ul></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">Explainable automated planning and scheduling for user interfaces<ul style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0px 30px;padding:0px 0px 0px 20px;list-style:disc"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">Representing and solving planning domains for user interface creation and design tasks</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">Plan, activity, and intent recognition of users’ interactions with interfaces</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit">Developing user (mental) models with description languages and decision processes<br></li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;line-height:1.25;margin:20px 0px 10px"><span style="font-weight:normal">Here are a few recent surveys on topics in XAIP (newest first):</span><br><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font size="2">The Emerging Landscape of Explainable AI Planning and Decision Making. <span style="font-weight:normal">Tathagata Chakraborti, Sarath Sreedharan, Subbarao Kambhampati. [</span><a href="https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/2020/669" target="_blank" style="font-weight:normal">link</a><span style="font-weight:normal">]</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font size="2">Explainable AI Planning (XAIP): Overview and the Case of Contrastive Explanation. <span style="font-weight:normal">Jorg Hoffmann and Daniele Magazzeni. [</span><a href="https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/explainable-ai-planning-xaip-overview-and-the-case-of-contrastiv/17181492" target="_blank" style="font-weight:normal">link</a><span style="font-weight:normal">]</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font size="2">Explainable Agents and Robots: Results from a Systematic Literature Review. <span style="font-weight:normal">Sule Anjomshoae, Amro Najjar, Davide Calvaresi, and Kary Framling. [</span><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3306127.3331806" target="_blank" style="font-weight:normal">link</a><span style="font-weight:normal">]</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font size="2">Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences. <span style="font-weight:normal">Tim Miller. [</span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0004370218305988" target="_blank" style="font-weight:normal">link</a><span style="font-weight:normal">]</span></font></li></ul></h3><h3 style="font-family:"Work Sans",sans-serif;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;line-height:1.25;margin:20px 0px 10px"><font color="#ff0000"><span style="font-size:1.5rem">Important Dates</span></font></h3><ul style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px 20px;padding:0px 0px 0px 20px;list-style-position:initial"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit"><font color="#ff0000"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Paper submission deadline:</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">September 11, 2020, UTC-12</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit"><font color="#ff0000">Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2020, UTC-12</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit"><font color="#ff0000">Camera-ready paper submissions: October 14, 2020, UTC-12</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit"><font color="#ff0000">Workshop date: October 21-23, 2020</font></li></ul><h3 style="font-family:"Work Sans",sans-serif;font-size:1.5rem;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;line-height:1.25;margin:20px 0px 10px">Submission Instructions</h3><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px">We invite submissions of the following types:</p><ul style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px 20px;padding:0px 0px 0px 20px;list-style-position:initial"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Full technical papers</span> making an original contribution; up to 9 pages including references;</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Short technical papers</span> making an original contribution; up to 5 pages including references;</li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Position papers</span> proposing XAIP challenges, outlining XAIP ideas, debating issues relevant to XAIP; up to 5 pages including references.</li></ul><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Submissions must be made through the following EasyChair link: </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__easychair.org_conferences_-3Fconf-3Dxaip2020&d=DwMGaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=bSBgjAhYJgIHgo76f-HBfhBOGTbfbQ-nj45gzb8qQHo&m=kCuI3nMEZ5o3nVJPvt-FAlYpv2ahkKq-mPJvS8E3mRw&s=YDbtQMCNHen8Xr46jW3jWqIV6_r5Yh3J9FQ7Mgfavx4&e=" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,115,180);box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xaip2020</a></p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px">Papers must be prepared according to the instructions for ICAPS 2020 (in AAAI format) available at <a href="https://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit20.zip" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,115,180);box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">https://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit20.zip</a>. Authors who are considering submitting to the workshop papers rejected from the main conference, please ensure you do your utmost to address the comments given by ICAPS reviewers. <em style="box-sizing:inherit">Please do not submit papers that are already accepted for the main conference to the workshop.</em></p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px">Every submission will be reviewed by members of the program committee according to the usual criteria such as relevance to the workshop, the significance of the contribution, and technical quality. Authors can select if they want their submissions to be single-blind or double-blind (recommended for AAAI or NeurIPS dual submissions) at the time of submission.</p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px">The workshop is meant to be an open and inclusive forum, and we encourage papers that report on work in progress or that do not fit the mold of a typical conference paper.</p><p style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px">At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper.</p><h3 style="font-family:"Work Sans",sans-serif;font-size:1.5rem;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;line-height:1.25;margin:20px 0px 10px">Organizers</h3><ul style="font-family:Rubik,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(68,68,68);box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px 20px;padding:0px 0px 0px 20px;list-style-position:initial"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700"><a href="http://tchakra2.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,115,180);box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">Tathagata Chakraborti</a></span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:silver">IBM Research AI</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:in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