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This is to be announced soon. Would be relevant for some of us. Would also work well wrt. ITA timelines & AFM.
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<div class="">Call for Papers -- TRUST: Workshop at AAMAS/IJCAI/ECAI/ICML 2018</div>
<div class=""> Stockholm, Sweden -- July 14, 2018 or July 15, 2018</div>
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<div class="">Trust is important in many kinds of interactions, including computer-mediated</div>
<div class="">human interaction, human-computer interaction and among social agents;</div>
<div class="">it characterizes those elements that are essential in social reliability.</div>
<div class="">It also informs the selection of partners for successful multiagent</div>
<div class="">coordination. Trust is more than communication that is robust against</div>
<div class="">repudiation or interference. Increasingly, there is concern for human</div>
<div class="">users to trust the AI systems which have been designed to act on their behalf.</div>
<div class="">This trust can be engendered through effective transparency and lack of </div>
<div class="">bias, as well as through successful attention to user needs. Mistrust has also</div>
<div class="">emerged as a current theme, especially within online settings where</div>
<div class="">misinformation may abound. AI approaches to addressing this concern have</div>
<div class="">thus come into focus.</div>
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<div class="">This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on related </div>
<div class="">issues regarding trust and artificial intelligence, expanding the discussion</div>
<div class="">beyond the borders of multiagent trust modeling, where research and dialogue</div>
<div class="">has been very active over the past twenty years.</div>
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<div class="">Many computational and theoretical models and approaches to reputation</div>
<div class="">have been developed recently. Further, identity and associated</div>
<div class="">trustworthiness must be ascertained for reliable interactions or transactions.</div>
<div class="">Trust is foundational for the notion of agency and for its defining</div>
<div class="">relation of acting "on behalf of". It is also critical for modeling</div>
<div class="">and supporting groups and teams, for both organization and coordination,</div>
<div class="">with the related trade-off between individual utility and collective interest.</div>
<div class="">The electronic medium seems to weaken the usual bonds of social control</div>
<div class="">and the disposition to mislead grows stronger; this is yet another context</div>
<div class="">where trust modeling is critical.</div>
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<div class="">The aim of the workshop is to bring together computer science </div>
<div class="">researchers with a vested interested in exploring artificial intelligence</div>
<div class="">modeling of trust (ideally from different subdisciplines). We welcome</div>
<div class="">submissions of high-quality research addressing issues that are clearly</div>
<div class="">relevant to trust, deception, reputation, security and control,</div>
<div class="">from theoretical, applied and interdisciplinary perspectives. Submitted</div>
<div class="">contributions should be original and not submitted elsewhere. Papers</div>
<div class="">accepted for presentation must be relevant to the workshop and to demonstrate</div>
<div class="">clear exposition, offering new ideas is suitable depth and detail.</div>
<div class="">Papers are to be formatted in Springer format and be no more than 12 pages.</div>
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<div class="">The scope of the workshop includes (but is not limited to):</div>
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<div class="">Trust modeling in multiagent systems</div>
<div class="">Addressing misinformation in online systems</div>
<div class="">Engendering trust in AI systems from human users</div>
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<div class="">with more specific subtopics including (but not limited to):</div>
<div class="">Trust and risk-aware decision making</div>
<div class="">Game-theoretic models of trust</div>
<div class="">Trust in the context of adversarial environments</div>
<div class="">Deception and fraud, and its detection and prevention</div>
<div class="">Intrusion resilience in trusted computing</div>
<div class="">Reputation mechanisms</div>
<div class="">Trust within socio-technical systems and organizations</div>
<div class="">Socio-cognitive models of trust</div>
<div class="">Trust within service-oriented architectures</div>
<div class="">Human or agent trust in agent partners</div>
<div class="">Trust within social networks</div>
<div class="">AI solutions to improve online fact checking and critical thinking</div>
<div class="">Detecting and preventing collusion</div>
<div class="">Improving transparency in AI systems</div>
<div class="">Addressing bias in AI systems</div>
<div class="">Detecting and addressing mistrust of AI systems from human users</div>
<div class="">Realworld applications of multiagent trust modeling</div>
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<div class="">We are currently in discussion with the Editor in Chief of</div>
<div class="">ACM TOIT (Transactions on Internet Technology) for</div>
<div class="">a special issue of this journal (with a 2018 call for papers) to </div>
<div class="">which authors of outstanding papers at the workshop will be invited to submit</div>
<div class="">an expanded version of their work.</div>
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<div class="">Motivation</div>
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<div class="">This workshop will continue the tradition of bringing together at AAMAS</div>
<div class="">each year researchers working on modeling trust in multiagent systems</div>
<div class="">but with an expanded vision for the gathering, to encourage participation</div>
<div class="">from researchers working on related issues: regarding trust of</div>
<div class="">AI systems (and the need to address possible mistrust of these systems) and</div>
<div class="">regarding concern about mistrust for applications where AI solutions may be</div>
<div class="">of use (such as the web and online social networks).</div>
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<div class="">The workshop will consist of paper presentations, invited talks</div>
<div class="">and panel discussions, with the latter aimed at fostering discussion</div>
<div class="">of how the theme of trust is pervading not only the multiagent systems</div>
<div class="">community but also the more general AI community, with respect to</div>
<div class="">the additional topic areas outlined above.</div>
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<div class="">This will be a one-day workshop.</div>
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<div class="">Submission</div>
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<div class="">Papers can be up to 12 pages single-sided (Springer format) and will be</div>
<div class="">submitted through the Easychair system.</div>
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<div class="">Papers must be original: not previously published and not in submission.</div>
<div class="">Reviewing will be single blind (i.e. author names included on first page).</div>
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<div class="">Deadline for submission and URL for Easychair will be finalized</div>
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<div class="">Expected Dates (to be finalized once we hear back from conference organizers):</div>
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<div class=""> Papers due Apr 17</div>
<div class=""> Papers to PC by Apr 20</div>
<div class=""> PC Reviews due May 13</div>
<div class=""> Notification of Acceptances May 16</div>
<div class=""> Camera-Ready due May 31</div>
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