Description of the session topic

In the era of the Internet of Things and Big Data, data scientists are required to extract valuable knowledge from the given data. They first analyze, cure and pre-process data. Then, they apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to automatically extract knowledge from data.

Our focus is on knowledge representation and how to enhance human-machine interaction. As remarked in the last challenge stated by the USA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),

even though current AI systems offer many benefits in many applications, their effectiveness is limited by a lack of explanation ability when interacting with humans.

Accordingly, non-expert users, i.e., users without a strong background on AI, require a new generation of explainable AI systems. They are expected to naturally interact with humans, thus providing comprehensible explanations of decisions automatically made. The goal of this special session is to discuss and disseminate the most recent advancements focused on explainable artificial intelligence. The session goes a step ahead with respect to the previous events we organized (which were mainly focused on interpretable fuzzy systems) in some other conferences: joint IFSA-EUSFLAT 2009, ISDA 2009, WCCI 2010, WILF 2011, ESTYLF 2012, WCCI 2012, EUSFLAT 2013, IFSA-EUSFLAT2015, and FUZZ-IEEE2017.


Notes

If you are interested in contributing to this special session, please submit your paper directly through the IPMU website (http://ipmu2018.uca.es/submission/).

Remind to select “Advances on Explainable Artificial Intelligence” as "Main research topic"

Notice that papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the rest of contributed papers. As a result, all accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of IPMU 2018 which will be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) with Springer.

CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus.

Moreover, CCIS volumes will also be submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings (Web-of-Science).

Scope and Topics

  • The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
  • Explainable Computational Intelligence
  • Theoretical Aspects of Interpretability
  • Dimensions of Interpretability: Readability versus Understandability
  • Learning Methods for Interpretable Systems and Models
  • Interpretability Evaluation and Improvements
  • Relations between Interpretability and other Criteria (such as Accuracy, Stability, Relevance, etc.)
  • Design Issues
  • Successful Applications of Interpretable AI Systems
  • Interpretable Fuzzy Systems
  • Interpretable Machine Learning
  • Models for Explainable Recommendations
  • Explainable Agents
  • Self-explanatory Decision-Support Systems
  • Argumentation Theory for Explainable AI
  • Natural Language Generation for Explainable AI

Deadlines

• Paper submission: 15 January 2018 (EXTENDED)

• Acceptance/rejection notification: 20 February 2018

• Final paper submission: 10 March 2018

• Conference dates: 11-15 June 2018

Organizers

José M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)

Research Centre in Information Technologies (CiTIUS)

University of Santiago de Compostela

Campus Vida, E-15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Website: https://citius.usc.es/v/jose-maria-alonso-moral

Ciro Castiello (ciro.castiello@uniba.it)

Department of Informatics

University of Bari “Aldo Moro” Bari, Italy

Corrado Mencar (corrado.mencar@uniba.it)

Department of Informatics

University of Bari “Aldo Moro” Bari, Italy

Luis Magdalena (luis.magdalena@upm.es)

Department of Applied Mathematics

School of Informatics

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Notes

If you are interested in contributing to this special session, please submit your paper directly through the IPMU website (http://ipmu2018.uca.es/submission/).

Remind to select “Advances on Explainable Artificial Intelligence” as "Main research topic"

Notice that papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the rest of contributed papers. As a result, all accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of IPMU 2018 which will be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) with Springer.

CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus.

Moreover, CCIS volumes will also be submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings (Web-of-Science).