From Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it Thu Dec 9 12:59:28 2021 From: Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it (Kutz Oliver) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 11:59:28 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] CfP, Special Issue of Semantic Web Journal, deadline Feb 15: The Role of Ontologies and Knowledge in Explainable AI Message-ID: <3CA9C6A4-BAC3-401B-A98A-ADEA710BF7C1@unibz.it> ****** Apologies for multiple postings ***** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for papers: Special Issue on The Role of Ontologies and Knowledge in Explainable AI* to be published in the Semantic Web journal, IOS Press. https://sites.google.com/view/special-issue-on-xai-swj *** Submission Deadline (extended): February 15, 2022 *** Explainable AI (XAI) has been identified as a key factor for developing trustworthy AI systems. The reasons for equipping intelligent systems with explanation capabilities are not limited to user rights and acceptance. Explainability is also needed for designers and developers to enhance system robustness and enable diagnostics to prevent bias, unfairness, and discrimination, as well as to increase trust by all users in why and how decisions are made. The interpretability of AI systems has been described long time ago since mid 1980s, but until recently it becomes an active research focus in computer science community due to the advances of big data and various regulations of data protection in developing AI systems, such as the GDPR. For example, according to the GDPR, citizens have the legal right to an explanation of decisions made by algorithms that may affect them (e.g., see Article 22). This policy highlights the pressing importance of transparency and interpretability in algorithm design. XAI focuses on developing new approaches for explanations of black-box models by achieving good explainability without sacrificing system performance. One typical approach is the extraction of local and global post-hoc explanations. Other approaches are based on hybrid or neuro-symbolic systems, advocating a tight integration between symbolic and non-symbolic knowledge, e.g., by combining symbolic and statistical methods of reasoning. The construction of hybrid systems is widely seen as one of the grand challenges facing AI today. However, there is no consensus regarding how to achieve this, with proposed techniques in the literature ranging from knowledge extraction and tensor logic to inductive logic programming and other approaches. Knowledge representation---in its many incarnations--- is a key asset to enact hybrid systems, and it can pave the way towards the creation of transparent and human-understandable intelligent systems. This special issue will feature contributions dedicated to the role played by knowledge bases, ontologies, and knowledge graphs in XAI, in particular with regard to building trustworthy and explainable decision support systems. Knowledge representation plays a key role in XAI. Linking explanations to structured knowledge, for instance in the form of ontologies, brings multiple advantages. It does not only enrich explanations (or the elements therein) with semantic information---thus facilitating evaluation and effective knowledge transmission to users---but it also creates a potential for supporting the customisation of the levels of specificity and generality of explanations to specific user profiles or audiences. However, linking explanations, structured knowledge, and sub-symbolic/statistical approaches raise a multitude of technical challenges from the reasoning perspective, both in terms of scalability and in terms of incorporating non-classical reasoning approaches, such as defeasibility, methods from argumentation, or counterfactuals, to name just a few. **Topics of Interest** Topics relevant to this special issue include – but are not limited to – the following: - Cognitive computational systems integrating machine learning and automated reasoning - Knowledge representation and reasoning in machine learning and deep learning - Knowledge extraction and distillation from neural and statistical learning models - Representation and refinement of symbolic knowledge by artificial neural networks - Explanation formats exploiting domain knowledge - Visual exploratory tools of semantic explanations - Knowledge representation for human-centric explanations - Usability and acceptance of knowledge-enhanced semantic explanations - Evaluation of transparency and interpretability of AI Systems - Applications of ontologies for explainability and trustworthiness in specific domains - Factual and counterfactual explanations - Causal thinking, reasoning and modeling - Cognitive science and XAI - Open source software for XAI - XAI applications in finance, medical and health sciences, etc. **Important Dates (Extended) ** - Submission deadline: February 15, 2021 (Papers submitted before the deadline will be reviewed upon receipt) - Acceptance/rejection notification: June 30, 2022 - Revision due by: August 31, 2022 - Estimated publication: October 2022 **Author Guidelines** Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors. We welcome four main types of submissions: (i) full research papers, (ii) reports on tools and systems, (iii) application reports, and (iv) survey articles. The description of the submission types is posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors#types. While there is no upper limit, paper length must be justified by content. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. **Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the "The Role of Ontologies and Knowledge in Explainable AI” special issue.** All manuscripts will be reviewed based on the SWJ open and transparent review policy and will be made available online during the review process. Also note that the Semantic Web journal is open access. http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-role-ontologies-and-knowledge-explainable-ai **Guest editors** The guest editors can be reached at ontologies-knowledge-in-xai-swj --at-- googlegroups.com . - Roberto Confalonieri, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Computer Science, Italy - Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Computer Science, Italy - Diego Calvanese, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Sweden and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Computer Science - Jose M. Alonso, University of Santiago de Compostela, CiTIUS, Spain - Shang-Ming Zhou, University of Plymouth, Faculty of Health, UK From maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com Sun Dec 5 12:49:52 2021 From: maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com (Maria Hedblom) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2021 12:49:52 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?utf-8?q?Final_CfP_and_Deadline_extension=3A_the?= =?utf-8?q?_6th_Image_Schema_Day=2C_January_2022=2C_J=C3=B6nk=C3=B6?= =?utf-8?q?ping=2C_SWE?= Message-ID: (Apologies for potential cross-posting) *Call for papers and participation!* The Sixth Image Schema Day Workshop on the 20-21st of January, 2022 On-site at Jönköping University, Sweden https://imageschema.net/image-schema-day ** Deadline extension:* 15th of December (strict) ** Title and abstract submission:* 10th of December *-- Updated comment on the COVID pandemic -- In Sweden, ca 70% of the population is fully vaccinated and the number of local cases is kept relatively low despite the global increase. However, as the global situation remains unstable, we are uncertain about the general interest in travel at the moment. Therefore, we ask all researchers who intended to submit to and join ISD6 to upload a preliminary version on Easychair by the original deadline of 10th of December. In the case, that the number of submissions is lower than expected, we will postpone ISD6 to a later date so ISD6 can be the networking event we designed it to be. Accepted papers at that point, will naturally also remain accepted despite any postponement. --* After two years of hibernation, we are happy to announce that the Image Schema Day (ISD6) is returning in its sixth reincarnation: at a new venue, with new research, but with the same purpose. In broad terms, image schemas are spatiotemporal relationships between objects and agents that are learned in early infancy such as containment, support and linkage. These relationships are hypothesised to construct the information skeleton found in object affordances, linguistic and artistic metaphors, the conceptualisation of event segmentation and analogical reasoning. Traditionally studied in cognitive linguistics, these abstract patterns gained increased interest to solve some of the semantic grounding issues in AI and cognitive robotics, but are also a familiar sight in interaction design, art and literary analysis, developmental psychology, and gesture interpretation, to name but a few. To offer a platform to discuss this topic across the disciplines, the workshop* The Image Schema Day *was born in 2015, and so far, it gathered researchers on five different occasions. The workshop is primarily a networking event that invites researchers on image schemas and related notions from a broad range of scientific disciplines to present their research and discuss ideas for future projects. Unlike many other workshops focused on different topics in one discipline or using one methodology, the ISD6 invites researchers from all disciplines and methodologies but focuses on one topic. For the first time organised outside of Italy, the event will be held fully on-site in the beautiful 1850's villa Mariedal that, since its renovation, features as Jönköping University's representation venue. Jönköping is a mid-sized town beautifully located between several lakes, tucked in the deep Swedish forests and hilly mountains. If we are lucky, January might treat us to some white snow as well! The workshop accepts three forms of *submissions with deadline 15th of December (Title and abstract deadline on the 10th of December) *(more information can be found on the website): - Abstracts for presentation (2 pages) - (*NOTE*: *not included in the proceedings.*) - Extended abstracts (at least 5 pages) of either preliminary work and ideas or summaries of previously published articles. - Research papers (5-10 pages) discussing novel research not published (or under review) at another venue. Topics of interests with (the broadest of interpretation of) an image-schematic focus include, but are not limited to: - conceptual metaphors - affordances - spatiotemporal reasoning - force dynamics - conceptual modelling - embodied and spatial cognition - general artificial intelligence - commonsense reasoning - analogical reasoning - cognitive robotics - interface design - art and literature analysis All submissions will be peer-reviewed by a highly diverse PC and accepted contributions will be included in the ISD6 proceedings (either as a standalone volume or as part of the Joint Ontology Workshops JOWO - held later in 2022). Submitted abstracts will have a chance to turn their contributions into full research papers after the workshop. Papers that are accepted after a second round of reviewing will be included in the proceeding. Please share this invitation with colleagues and students that you think might be interested and consider joining us this January! We hope to see you in Jönkoping in January! ISD6 organisers, Maria M. Hedblom and Oliver Kutz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com Tue Dec 7 15:17:42 2021 From: maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com (Maria Hedblom) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 15:17:42 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?utf-8?q?JOWO_2022=3A_1st_Call_for_Workshop_and_?= =?utf-8?b?VHV0b3JpYWxzLCBKw7Zua8O2cGluZywgU3dlZGVuLCBBdWcgMTUtMTks?= =?utf-8?q?_2022?= Message-ID: (Apologies for potential cross-posting) The Joint Ontology Workshops - JOWO 2022 Episode 8: The Svear Sommar of Ontology August 15-19, 2022, Jönköping, Sweden (On-site) https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2022 *-- 1st Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals --* * Submission window: Dec 5, 2021 - Feb 15, 2022 * Notification latest on: Mar 1, 2022 The organisation team invites proposals for workshops and tutorials to be submitted to the eighth edition of the Joint Ontology Workshop (JOWO 2022). The event will take place at Jönköping University in Sweden on August 15-19, 2022. Workshops and tutorials at JOWO 2022 are events whose scientific program is independently established by the workshop organisers, but whose venue matters are managed by the organisation of the umbrella event. This means that organisers for each workshop are responsible for advertising the workshop, finding a program committee, and reviewing and selecting the contributions. Each workshop will be treated as an independent track at JOWO and will be provided a submission track on JOWO's Easychair, a room at a shared venue with joint breaks, shared keynote speakers, and social programs. Attendees are free to partake in all workshops at JOWO and all accepted papers are to be published in the joint proceedings (open access CEUR proceedings in the IAOA series: http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html). Proposals for workshops of interest are those that provide a forum for the discussion of theory, practice, development and/or application of topics broadly related to ontologies, formal ontology, and knowledge management and their application in information science or closely related areas. The strength of JOWO is the variety of different topics within the same domain. Therefore, JOWO workshops typically address a wide spectrum of topics related to ontology research and information science: ranging from Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Knowledge Representation and Logic, Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Hybrid AI, Conceptual Modelling and the Semantic Web. In general, any particular domain in which ontologies may be put to use is welcome. As a workshop collective, JOWO is especially suitable for interdisciplinary and innovative formats. Previous JOWO editions were held as independent events in 2019 in Graz (Austria), in 2017 in Bolzano (Italy), and in conjunction with FOIS 2018 in Cape Town (South Africa), with FOIS 2016 in Annecy (France), and at IJCAI 2015 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). During the pandemic times 2022-21, JOWO were held as components in BOSK 2021 and 2022 in Bolzano (Italy). This year's venue is Jönköping University. The university offers modern facilities in a mid-sized town in the south of Sweden. Beautifully located between shimmering lakes and lush forests, Jönköping is a popular tourist destination for nature lovers, sports enthusiasts and those interested in nordic culture. JOWO will be organised as an on-site event, but individual workshops may choose to invite part of their workshop presenters in an online form, given that they manage the complexities of the hybrid format independently from the JOWO organisation. *-- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS --* *Workshop proposals are evaluated upon arrival and should be sent - no later than the 15th of February - to: steering.JOWO2022 at gmail.com * We encourage several forms and lengths of workshops (the list is non-exhaustive): - workshops that focus on an established research area, including continuations of workshops that were held in the past; - workshops that focus on emerging topics and applications, or on open research questions and challenges; - workshops that aim to create cross-disciplinary research fostering the exchange of ideas between groups otherwise mostly disconnected. Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be* no more than 2 pages* in length, and must contain the following information: - title of the workshop/tutorial; - names of the workshop/tutorial organisers; - brief description of experience in workshop/tutorial organisation; - description of the workshop/tutorial topic; - brief description of the expected audience (please give an estimate of the expected number of participants and their background and interests); - intended duration of the workshop (between half a day and a full day); - timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates). We recommend taking the proposed "important dates" below into account. *-- EVALUATION --* Submissions of workshop proposals will be evaluated by the workshop chairs of JOWO 2022 using the following criteria: - Scientific relevance and utility to attendees; - Quality of the proposal; - Likelihood of success of the workshop; - Overlap and complementarity with other workshops. *-- IMPORTANT DATES --* - February 15, 2022 – Workshop proposal submission deadline - March 1, 2022 – Latest date for workshop acceptance notification - March 16, 2022 – 1st call for papers to be distributed by individual workshop organisers - August 15-19, 2022 – JOWO conference dates *-- FURTHER INQUIRIES --* In case of further questions please contact: steering.JOWO2022 at gmail.com *-- ORGANISATION --* *Chairs and local organisation:*Maria M. Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden Karl Hammar, Jönköping University, Sweden Tan He, Jönköping University, Sweden *Proceedings chair:* Tiago Prince Sales, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy *Web chair:* Selja Seppälä, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: