[iaoa-general] Final CFP: 3rd Int. Workshop on Data meets Applied Ontologies in Explainable Artificial Intelligence. DAO-XAI @ BAKS 2021

[Kutz Oliver]

CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd International Workshop on
Data meets Applied Ontologies in Explainable Artificial Intelligence
DAO-XAI @ BAKS 2021
18 September 2021
https://daoxai.inf.unibz.it/

DEADLINES:
- July 05-10, 2021: Abstract registration
- July 16, 2021: Paper submission deadline

* The Workshop is held as Part of the
 Bratislava Knowledge September, BAKS 2021,
 14-24 September 2021, Bratislava, Slovakia *
https://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/baks2021/

* Special issue on "The Role of Ontologies and 
 Knowledge in Explainable AI" to be published 
 in the Semantic Web journal * 
http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-role-ontologies-and-knowledge-explainable-ai

https://sites.google.com/view/special-issue-on-xai-swj

*Content*

The 3rd edition of the Data meets Applied Ontologies Workshop series
will take place as a bridge event between the 30th International
Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2021) and the 34th
International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2021), two venues
with a long tradition of research contributions related to
sub-symbolic and symbolic reasoning respectively.

To this end, the 3rd edition of the Data meets Applied Ontologies
Workshop will focus on the integration of sub-symbolic and symbolic
reasoning, particularly, on the role played by explicit and formal
knowledge, such as ontologies, knowledge graphs, knowledge bases,
etc., in Explainable Artificial Intelligence.

We welcome the submission of original contributions, investigating
novel methodologies that integrate sub-symbolic and symbolic reasoning
to build transparent and scrutable AI systems, and algorithms for the
design of Trustworthy and Explainable decision support systems.

We welcome the submission of original contributions, in the form of
theoretical contributions, discussion papers, experimental
contributions, system and demo descriptions of applications that make
use of explicit and formal knowledge to enhance the explainability and
trustworthiness of decision systems, including - but not limited to -
the following topics of interest:

*Neural-symbolic Learning and Reasoning*
- 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

*Human-centered Explanations, Usability*
- 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*
- Life sciences, health
- Biomedicine
- Humanities and social sciences
- eGovernment


*Submission Guidelines*

We accept submissions (in CEUR WS format) of the following types:
- Regular paper (max 12p + references)
- Short/Position paper (max 6p + references)
- Abstract (max 2p + references) - not included in the proceedings

All submitted papers will be evaluated based on originality,
significance, relevance and technical quality. Papers should be
submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following the CEUR-WS single
column formatting guidelines found at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/

The direct template download for Latex and MS Word is available here:
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip

There is also an Overleaf Template available here:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/hpvjjzhjxzjk

Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=daoxai2021

Accepted papers will be published in a proceedings volume in the IAOA
series of CEUR-WS (http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html).  Please notice that
due to a change of policy at CEUR-WS.org, abstracts are no longer
indexed by dblp.org and cannot be included in the proceedings.
They will be accepted for *oral presentation only*.

Authors who require a visa to travel to Slovakia and for this reason
think that they need to receive notification earlier than 23 July may
send an e-mail to roberto.confalonieri at unibz.it, including the
submission number of the paper and a statement explaining the
circumstances that require an earlier notification.


*Special Issue*

Extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at the
workshop will be invited to be submitted to a Special Issue on
 'The Role of Ontologies and Knowledge in Explainable AI'
https://sites.google.com/view/special-issue-on-xai-swj
to be published in the Semantic Web Journal
(http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/).


*Important Dates (Extended)*

- July 05-10, 2021: Abstract registration
- July 16, 2021: Paper submission deadline
- July 31, 2021: Fast-track notification
- August 13, 2021: Notification to authors
- September 3, 2021: Camera-ready copies
- September 18-19, 2021: DAO-XAI workshop


*Invited Speakers*

We will have as keynote speaker Luciano Serafini, a world-wide expert
in logics for knowledge representation and reasoning, ontologies, and
their integration with sub-symbolic reasoning and learning.


*Organization*

- Roberto Confalonieri - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- Oliver Kutz - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- Diego Calvanese - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- Alessandro Mosca - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano


*Contacts*
roberto.confalonieri at unibz.it