<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class=""><font size="4" class="">CFP: The 2nd International Workshop on Democracy and AI (DemocrAI 2023)</font></b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10px;"><font class="" style="font-size: 16px;">in conjunction with IJCAI 2023</font></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;">August 19th, 2023</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;">Sheraton Grand Macao, Macao, S.A.R</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/kyoto-u.ac.jp/democrai2023" class="">https://sites.google.com/kyoto-u.ac.jp/democrai2023</a></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The <b class="">2nd International Workshop on Democracy and AI (DemocrAI 2023) </b>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:</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><ul class=""><li class="">Technologies and Platforms for Group Decision-Making</li><li class="">Theories of Decision-Making, such as Formal Argumentation, Game Theory, and Mechanism Design</li><li class="">Multiagent Systems, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, and Distributed Ledgers</li><li class="">Wisdom of the Crowds, Collective Intelligence, and Superminds</li><li class="">Liquid, Digital, Cyber, Hyper, and Augmented Forms of Democracy</li><li class="">Social Choice Theory and Computational Social Choice</li><li class="">Social Sciences, Sociology, Social Psychology, and Political science</li><li class="">Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues in Collective Decision-Making</li><li class="">Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, and Human-Based Computation</li><li class="">The Sustainable Development Goals or Global Goals and Artificial Intelligence</li></ul></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The research on AI-based democracy is highly relevant to some of the critical objectives of the <a href="https://ijcai-23.org/" class="">International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)</a> 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.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><u class="">Important Dates:</u></b></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><ul class=""><li class=""><b class="">Submission Deadline</b>: May 8th, 2023, Anywhere on Earth (AoE)</li><li class=""><b class="">Acceptance Notification</b>: June 5th, 2023</li><li class=""><b class="">Camera-ready Deadline</b>: July 19th, 2023</li><li class=""><b class="">DemocrAI2023</b>: August 19th, 2023 (full-day workshop)</li></ul></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><u class="">Organization:</u></b></div></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><u class=""><br class=""></u></b></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class=""><b class="">Organizing Committee</b></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Rafik Hadfi, Associate Professor, Kyoto University, Japan</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Takayuki Ito, Professor, Kyoto University, Japan</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Susumu Ohnuma, Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Shun Shiramatsu, Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan</span></li></ul></div><div class=""><b class="">Advisory Committee</b></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Shiyao Ding, Kyoto University, Japan</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Sofia Sahab, Kyoto University, Japan</span></li></ul></div><div class=""><span class=""><b class="">Program Committee Members</b></span></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Shigeo Matsubara, Osaka University, Japan</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Jawad Haqbeen, Kyoto University, Japan</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Wen Gu, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Ryuta Arisaka, Kyoto University, Japan</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Naoki Fukuta, Shizuoka University, Japan</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Shun Okuhara, Mie University, Japan</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Weihua Li, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Yi Yang, Hefei University of Technology, China</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Nor Khalid, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Fuyuan Xiao, Chongqing University, China</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Reyhan Aydogan, Ozyegin University, Turkey</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Takanobu Otsuka, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Dr. Shantanu Chakraborty, AVEVA Australia Pty, Australia</span></li></ul></div></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><u class="">Submission Guidelines:</u></b></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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 <a href="https://www.overleaf.com/project/5e76702c4acae70001d3bc87" class="">here</a>. You can also <a href="https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip" class="">download</a> an offline version with the style files for LaTeX and MS Word. The DemocrAI 2023 workshop offers two types of submissions:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><ul class=""><li class=""><b class="">Regular papers</b>: 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.</li><li class=""><b class="">Extended abstracts</b>: 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.</li></ul></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Due to the double-blind review policy, please do not include author information or acknowledgments in the submissions.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><u class="">Submission website:</u></b></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All papers must be submitted via EasyChair at <a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=democrai2023" class="">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=democrai2023</a></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><u class="">Review Process and Acceptance Standards:</u></b></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The workshop welcomes submissions of original research relevant to the topics described above. At least<b class=""> three reviewers</b> from our PC members will review all submitted papers through a <b class="">double-blind peer-review process</b>. The acceptance standards include its technical soundness, novelty, impact, and readability.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference, and <b class="">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.</b> The host conference, IJCAI, strongly discourages remote or hybrid presentations during the workshops for any talks (including invited talks).</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><u class="">Proceedings:</u></b></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All regular papers will be submitted to <a href="https://ceur-ws.org/" class="">CEUR-WS.org</a> for online publication. Papers will be published under a <b class="">CC BY 4.0</b> license that will be included in an open-access CEUR Workshop Proceedings volume, indexed by both Scopus and DBLP.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><u class="">Distinguished Paper Awards:</u></b></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Distinguished paper awards will be presented to outstanding regular papers, including an award for the <b class="">best crowd award t</b>hat incorporates the workshop theme and is selected based on the decision of the workshop attendees.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div></body></html>