IEEE SMC 2019 - Industry 4.0

2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

06-09 October Bari, Italy

Special Session

Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Industry 4.0

This special session deals with the problem of extracting valuable knowledge from the given data, a problem that is especially felt by data scientists involved in IoT and Big Data projects. The focus of the SS is on knowledge representation and enhancement of human-machine interaction. As remarked by 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, users require a new generation of explainable AI systems that are expected to naturally interact with them, by providing comprehensible explanations of decisions automatically made. This is also aligned with the European vision for AI (CLAIRE) which remarks the need of building trustworthy AI that is beneficial to people through fairness, transparency and explainability.

The goal is to discuss and disseminate the most recent advancements focused on explainable AI in the scenario of Industry 4.0. This is strongly characterized by tight collaborations of humans and smart factories in highly complex processes, thus requiring mutual intelligibility and exchange of meaningful information and knowledge. The session goes a step ahead with respect to the previous events we organized, including the latest NLG 2018, IPMU 2018 and FUZZ’IEEE 2019.

Scope and topics

  • Explainable Computational Intelligence
  • Theoretical Aspects of Interpretability
  • Dimensions of Interpretability: Readability versus Understandability
  • Learning Methods for Interpretable Systems and Models
  • Interpretability Evaluation and Improvements
  • Models for Explainable Recommendations
  • Design Issues
  • Successful Applications of Interpretable AI Systems
  • Interpretable Machine Learning
  • Interpretable Fuzzy Systems
  • Relations between Interpretability and other Criteria (such as Accuracy, Stability, Relevance, etc.)
  • Explainable Agents
  • Self-explanatory Decision-Support Systems
  • Argumentation Theory for Explainable AI
  • Natural Language Generation for Explainable AI
  • Interpretable Human-Machine Interaction

Notes

Papers must be submitted electronically for peer review through PaperCept by March 31 April 14, 2019. In PaperCept, click on the SMC 2019 link “Submit a Contribution to SMC'19” and follow the steps. Session area is: Cybernetics.

All papers must be written in English and should describe original work. For guidelines, please follow the SMC website link.

Deadlines

  • Paper submission: April 14, 2019 (extended deadline)
  • Acceptance/rejection notification: June 7, 2019
  • Camera-ready paper submission: July 7, 2019
  • Conference dates: October 6-9, 2019

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

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