Call for Participation
The First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 2023 (TAS
23), 11-12 July 2023, Edinburgh, UK
[symposium.tas.ac.uk]
We invite submissions on novel and creative multidisciplinary research
projects focused on trustworthy autonomous systems and their responsible
development.
The symposium will include a networking event for Early Career Researchers
(ECRs) and travel grants will be available for ECRs.
Important dates
We invite full-paper submissions and poster abstracts that take a
multidisciplinary approach to address the challenges of designing, building,
and deploying Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS). Contributions should
consider social, legal, ethical, and technical issues and their impacts on
individuals, society, and the economy.
TAS 23 seeks to showcase creative, multi- and interdisciplinary responsible
research & innovation which focuses on the challenging question of how to
ensure that the design, engineering, and operation of autonomous systems
generates positive outcomes and mitigates potentially harmful outcomes for
people, societies, economies and the environment.
Your research may adopt specific perspectives on governance, design and
deployment of autonomous systems from disciplines including, but not limited
to, psychology, social sciences, law, computer science, engineering, and arts
& humanities.
We welcome submissions that reflect on the potential or actual real-world
impacts of autonomous systems and strongly encourage the adoption of
frameworks for responsible research (such as the responsible research &
innovation (RRI)
framework). Successful submissions would seek to address factors that impact the
trustworthiness of autonomous systems, including but not limited to:
Their robustness in dynamic and uncertain environments.
The assurance of their design and operation through verification and
validation processes.
The confidence they inspire as they evolve their functionality.
Their explainability, accountability, and understandability to a diverse set
of users and stakeholders.
Their defences against attacks on the systems, users, and the environment they
are deployed in.
Their governance and the regulation of their design and operation.
Public perception and explorations of their adoption, and (non-)use.
The consideration of human values and ethics in their development, deployment,
and use.
Submissions will be selected for publication following peer review. More
information on how to prepare your submissions will be released soon. The
proceedings, including full papers and abstracts, will be published in the ACM
Digital Library. Accepted full papers will be invited to submit to a special
issue, such as in the Journal of Responsible Technology and Journal of
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
We understand an autonomous system to be a system involving software
applications, machines, and people, that is able to take actions with little
or no human supervision. Our
definition includes socio-technical
systems involving both humans and machines working together (e.g., human-agent
collectives or human-machine teams), and automated decision-making processes
and the ways in which they are employed by and impacting on people (e.g.,
automated recruitment, facial recognition systems). Machine-to-machine or
Human-to-Human trust may also be important but these are not in scope of the
TAS symposium.
The TAS 23 organising committee is comprised of members of the UKRI-funded
TAS Network (TAS Hub, Nodes, Pump-Priming and Responsibility projects). The
symposium is aligned with the aims and values of the TAS Programme (see
tas.ac.uk).
Kate Devlin and Joel Fischer
TAS 23 General Chairs
Organising Committee
Kate Devlin, King's College London
Joel Fischer, University of Nottingham
Joe Deville, Lancaster University
Helena Webb, University of Nottingham
Benedicte Legastelois, King's College London
Daria Onitiu, University of Edinburgh
Burak Yuksek, Cranfield University
Katie Parnell, University of Southampton
Jeremie Clos, University of Nottingham
Lisa Dorn, Cranfield University
Xinwei Fang, University of York
Peter McKenna, Heriot-Watt University
Angela Westley, University of Southampton
Swaroop Panda, Durham University
Suet Lee, University of Bristol
Ben Coomber, University of Nottingham
Liz Dowthwaite, University of Nottingham
Lou Male, University of Southampton
Genovefa Kefalidou, University of Leicester
Gisela Reyes-Cruz, University of Nottingham
Adeshola Lawal, University of Southampton
Eryn Rigley, University of Southampton
Alison Tebbutt, University of Southampton
Zhengxin (Cynthia) Yu, Lancaster University
Helen Shaw, University of Southampton
Katie Drury, University of Bristol
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