<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network<br class=""><br class="">*************************************************************************************************<div class=""><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192);" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4" class="">CALL FOR PAPERS – RE4AI 2021</font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></p><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">2nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Artificial Intelligence (RE4AI)</font></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/re4ai" style="color: blue;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192);" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/re4ai</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192);" class=""></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""> </font></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Co-located with the 27<sup class="">th</sup> International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering (REFSQ 2020), Essen, Germany, April 12-15, 2021.</font></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="https://2021.refsq.org/" style="color: blue;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192);" class="">https://2021.refsq.org/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192);" class=""></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""> </font></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Important Dates</font></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">-----------------------------------------------------------------</font></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Workshop Paper Submission: February 8, 2021</font></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Workshop Paper Notification: March 1, 2021</font></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Workshops: April 12, 2021</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">------------------------------------------------------------------ </font></div><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 9pt 0px 0px; outline: none; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-decoration-line: inherit; line-height: 1.6667; border: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Nowadays AI is embedded in software and hardware systems, from everyday objects, such as cars, household appliances, wearable devices, to unmanned military vehicles and arms. Moreover, AI techniques such as Machine Learning are used by big tech players, as well as by startups that, for instance, provide business intelligence services to insurance companies. </span><span style="text-decoration-line: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">For several years (e.g. 2015 open letter and a document about research priorities), AI researchers have been manifesting their worries and recommendations for the responsible use of data, employment of discrimination-free algorithms, alignment of AI-based systems and technologies with human values and transparency. However, it is hard to imagine that AI systems will achieve these attributes without accounting for a strong emphasis on capturing and maintaining “the right” requirements, and making sure that the system is validated to properly meet such requirements. As the RE community is aware, this entails a myriad of methods and tools covering all RE activities, including requirements analysis, documentation and evolution. Nevertheless, many AI systems are today developed without much focus on the early development stages. In other words, </span><span style="text-decoration-line: inherit; box-sizing: border-box;" class="">most of the attention</span><span style="text-decoration-line: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> is put on combining different algorithms and heuristics, without however a more abstract view on what the system should deliver. As a result of the lack of RE support, the resulting system may be far from what is intended, leading to failing projects and systems that go rogue, which may ultimately cause harm to human individuals and society.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 9pt 0px 0px; outline: none; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-decoration-line: inherit; line-height: 1.6667; border: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">The main goals of the RE4AI Workshop may be summarized as follows:</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 9pt 0px 0px; outline: none; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-decoration-line: inherit; line-height: 1.6667; border: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-style: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit;" class="">- </span><span style="font-style: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">raising awareness in the RE community about the importance of RE in realizing Trustworthy AI systems;
</span><span style="font-style: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- bringing in the same room people from AI and RE industry and academia to discuss pressing issues, such as how RE can contribute to prevent AI systems to fail or to go rogue;
</span><span style="font-style: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- setting up the basis for collaboratively producing a report on the challenges, candidate solution paths, and research priorities regarding RE4AI;
</span><span style="font-style: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- motivating cross fertilization between AI and RE works.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 9pt 0px 0px; outline: none; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-decoration-line: inherit; line-height: 1.6667; border: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">To achieve these goals, we plan a workshop which mixes paper presentations and interactive sessions.</font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Organizers</font></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">------------------------------------</font></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Renata Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands</font></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Jennifer Horkoff, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden</font></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Anna Perini, </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="http://se.fbk.eu/perini" class=""><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;" class="">FBK, Center for Information and Communication Technology - ICT</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">, Italy</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Angelo Susi, </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="http://se.fbk.eu/perini" class=""><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;" class="">FBK, Center for Information and Communication Technology - ICT</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">, Italy</span></font></div><div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">For more information, please see the RE4AI 2021 website at <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/re4ai" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/re4ai </a> </font></div></div><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div></body></html>
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