First International Workshop on Computational Machine Ethics (CME 2021) Held in conjunction with KR 2021 <https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de/> November 6-12, Online event
Workshop web site: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cme2021/ <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cme2021/> Paper Submission web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cme2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cme2021> Call for Papers Overview Machine ethics is a subfield of AI ethics concerned with implementing moral and ethical behaviours in cognitive machines. The successful deployment of cognitive machines or robots in human society will require them to be adequately equipped with the moral and ethical competence to prevent physical, emotional or psychological harm they could cause by otherwise being oblivious to ethics and morality and to maximise the benefits they can provide to society. In recent years various approaches have been developed including logic-based formulations, reinforcement learning methods and hybrid models. While learning-based methods provide higher flexibility and adaptability, logic-based formulation enables better explainability, which is an important requirement in ethics. Nevertheless, compared to the extensive discussion in the press regarding the dangers of AI and rapid development of frameworks for regulating the ethical use of AI, there is surprisingly little literature on computational approaches to ensure ethical consideration in AI applications particularly machine ethics. In particular, how to represent ethical principles and reason about the best course of action for real-life scenarios in a generalisable way largely remains an open question. There is thus much needed research in knowledge representation and reasoning for this important area and a workshop in KR will provide the best venue to facilitate knowledge exchange and in-depth discussion. Topics The 1st International Workshop on Computational Machine Ethics (CME 2021) aims to provide a forum for researchers from academia and industry to exchange ideas and techniques in the area of machine ethics, to promote widespread awareness of machine ethics in the KR community as well as identifying new research directions in the area. Besides regular research papers, we also welcome vision papers, demonstration papers and papers showcasing industry applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Explicit ethical agents • Logic-based approaches to machine ethics • Knowledge representation of ethical principles • Commonsense reasoning and its application to machine ethics • Machine learning-based approaches to machine ethics • Integration of symbolic and sub-symbolic models • Computational modelling of morality and ethics • Natural language processing for descriptive ethics • Formal verification of machine ethics • Development of machine ethics in cognitive robot programs • Explainability of ethical reasoning Organising Committee • Maurice Pagnucco <mailto:mo...@unsw.edu.au>, UNSW, Australia • Yang Song <mailto:yang.so...@unsw.edu.au>, UNSW, Australia Program Committee • Michael Anderson, University of Hartford, USA • Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Sorbonne University, France • Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada • Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen, Germany • Beishui Liao, Zhejiang University, China • Emiliano Lorini, University Paul Sabatier, France • Katina Michael, Arizona State University, USA • Vivek Nallur, University College Dublin, Ireland • Abhaya Nayak, Macquarie University, Australia • Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan • Marija Slavkovik, University of Bergen, Norway • Sylvie Thiebaux, Australian National University, Australia • Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg • Alan Winfield, University of the West of England, UK Important Dates The workshop will be fully online. • Paper submission: 2 July 2021 • Paper notification: 6 August 2021 • Workshop dates: 6-8 November 2021 (TBA) • Registration: TBA Submissions We welcome and encourage the submission of original, previously unpublished research and also have a recently published research track, similarly to the main conference of KR 2021. Submissions should be 3-6 pages (including figures, references, etc.) and formatted according to the KR 2021 style files. Papers can be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cme2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cme2021>. Invited Speakers • Toby Walsh, UNSW, Australia • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, UK __ Maurice Pagnucco Deputy Dean (Education), UNSW Engineering Deputy Director, Creative Robotics Laboratory PLuS Alliance Fellow Professorial Fellow, UNSW iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research UNSW Sydney Dean’s Unit, Faculty of Engineering Level 6, Building K17 UNSW SYDNEY 2052 E: mo...@cse.unsw.edu.au <mailto:mo...@cse.unsw.edu.au>, m.pagnu...@unsw.edu.au <mailto:m.pagnu...@unsw.edu.au> W: unsw.edu.au <http://unsw.edu.au/> Executive Assistant: Rachel Lewis E: rachel.le...@unsw.edu.au <mailto:rachel.le...@unsw.edu.au> CRICOS Provider Code 00098G
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