[iva] CfP - EDIA 2016

[Tibor Bosse]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
WORKSHOP ON ETHICS IN THE DESIGN OF INTELLIGENT AGENTS (EDIA 2016)

To be held in conjunction with ECAI 2016, 29th to 30th of August 2016, 
The Hague, The Netherlands

http://ii.tudelft.nl/edia2016/
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The development of intelligent agents is experiencing a fruitful period 
of incredible progress and innovation. Nowadays, intelligent agents 
decide, act and interact in shared and dynamic environments under domain 
constraints, where they may interact with other agents and human beings 
to share tasks or execute tasks on behalf of others. Search engines, 
self-driving cars, electronic markets, smart homes, military technology, 
software for big data analysis, and care robots are just a few examples. 
As the scope of intelligent agents’ activities broadens, it is important 
to ensure that such socio-technical systems will not make irrelevant, 
counter-productive, or even dangerous decisions. Even if regulation and 
control mechanisms are designed to ensure sound and consistent behaviors 
at the agent, multi-agent, and human-agent level, ethical issues are 
likely to remain quite complex, implicating a wide variety of human 
values, moral questions, and ethical principles. To address these 
concerns, design approaches should envision and account for important 
human values, such as safety, privacy, accountability and 
sustainability, and designers will have to make value trade-offs and 
plan for moral conflicts.

This workshop focuses on two main questions: (1) what kind of formal 
organizations, norms, policy models, and logical frameworks can be 
proposed to deal with the control of agents' autonomous behaviors in a 
moral way?; and (2) what does it mean to be responsible designers of 
intelligent agents?

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
machine ethics, roboethics, machines and human dignity
reasoning mechanisms, legal reasoning, ethical engine
authority sharing, responsibility, delegating decision making to machines
organizations, institutions, normative systems
computational justice, social models
trust and reputation models
mutual intelligibility, explanations, accountability
consistency, conflicts management, validation
philosophy, sociology, law
applications, use cases
societal concerns, responsible innovation, privacy Issues
individual ethics, collective ethics, ethics of personalization
value sensitive design, human values, value theory

The workshop welcomes contributions from researchers in Artificial 
Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Machine Learning, Case-based 
reasoning, Value-based argumentations, AI and Law, Ontologies, Human 
Computer Interaction, Ethics, Philosophy, and related fields.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on any of the topics of 
the workshop. Papers (6 pages) must be written in English, and contain 
original contributions that have not been published previously, nor 
already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this 
workshop. Each submission is reviewed by at least three experts in this 
field.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: June 12, 2016
Paper notification: June 28, 2016
Camera ready: July 15, 2016
Workshop dates: August 29-30, 2016

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Grégory Bonnet (Normandy University, France)
Maaike Harbers (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Koen V. Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Michael A. Katell (University of Washington, USA)
Catherine Tessier (Onera, France)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Huib Aldewereld, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Mark Alfano, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Peter Asaro, The New School, USA
Olivier Boissier, Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Tibor Bosse, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gauvain Bourgne, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Joanna Bryson, University of Bath, UK
Pompeu Casanovas, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Nigel Crook, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Michaël Dewyn, Ghent University, Belgium
Sjur Dyrkolbotn, Durham Univ. and Utrecht Univ., UK and The Netherlands
Isabel Fereira, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Pim Haselager, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Marilena Kyriakidou, Coventry University, UK
Bertram Malle, Brown University, USA
Pablo Noriega, Intitut d'Investigació en Intelligència Artificial 
Barcelona, Spain
Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK
Thomas Powers, Center for Science, Ethics and Public Policy, USA
Lambèr Royakkers, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Giovanni Sartor, European University of Florence, Italy
Aimee van Wynsberghe, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pieter Vermaas, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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     Dr. Tibor Bosse
     Associate Professor
     Behavioural Informatics Group
     Department of Computer Science
     Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
     De Boelelaan 1081
     1081 HV Amsterdam
     The Netherlands
     tel. work: +31.20.5987750
     tel. mob.: +31.6.15123561
     e-mail: tbosse at cs.vu.nl
     URL: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tbosse
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