Description

Research in AI promises to bring huge advances in all aspects of human life, from groundbreaking discoveries in medicine and self-driving cars to the arts. However, it also raises serious ethical concerns.

The goal of the ReAI workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the broad area of responsible AI to discuss recent advancements and future perspectives of this rapidly changing field. Special emphasis will be placed on how Greece is tackling these challenges aiming at fostering a community on the topic of responsible AI.

The workshop will focus on the foundations, principles, and practices of responsibly developing and deploying AI systems, addressing issues of fair and unbiased use, transparency, explainability, respect for human autonomy, privacy, accountability, safety and trustworthiness.

Besides covering technical aspects, the workshop will also provide a broader interdisciplinary perspective by including legal, social, and ethical perspectives, aiming to provide participants with a well-rounded understanding of the implications and considerations surrounding AI beyond just its technical implementation.

Topics include but are not limited to

• Bias and fairness in AI systems
• Transparency, interpretability and explainability (XAI)
• AI regulations
• Privacy and accountability
• Use cases

Submission Guidelines

We welcome submissions reporting both mature and on-going research as well as position and vision papers.

Submissions may be of of two types:

• full papers (6-10 pages)
• short papers (2-4 pages)

Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to the topics of the workshop, originality, novelty, significance, and clarity. The review process will be double-blind, so authors should not reveal their identities.

In preparing your manuscripts, follow the ACM SIG Proceedings guidelines available at: http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/

All paper submissions will be handled electronically via the Easychair conference management system at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setn2024

Attendance and proceedings

To encourage interactions, we will have both longer and flash/pitch-like presentations.

At least one of the authors of each workshop paper must complete a full conference registration and deliver an on-site presentation during the workshop

All accepted Research Track papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published by ACM (International Conference Proceedings Series) and be available through the ACM Digital Library (approval pending).

Important dates

• Paper submission: June 20, 2024
  New Deadline: July 20, 2024
• Author Notification: July 10, 2024
  New Deadline: July 30, 2024
• Workshop Dates: September 12, 2024

Organizers

• Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina and Archimedes/Athena RC, Greece.
• Lilian Mitrou, University of the Aegean, Greece.
• Eirini Ntoutsi, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany.
• Danae Pla Karidi, Archimedes/Athena RC, Greece.

Program Committee (tentative)

Keynote

Nicolas Kourtellis, Head of Systems AI Lab (SAIL), Telefonica Scientific Research

Title:

Innovating Next-Gen Telco Networks: A Responsible AI Approach

Abstract:

As the telecommunication industry pushes forward with the 5G and 6G networks, several questions arise: How can we overcome the limitations of traditional network management approaches, to facilitate the demands of more advanced networks? How can cloud infrastructure, hierarchical network architectures, and edge computing be leveraged to enhance network performance? What role can AI modeling play to ensure user, data and model privacy, security, fairness, sustainability, and model utility? At Telefonica, we are exploring innovative, responsible AI solutions to these pressing questions. This talk will explore our recent efforts to develop secure, private, fair, and scalable systems, addressing the demands of next-generation networks and applications.

Bio:

Nicolas Kourtellis is Head of the Systems AI Lab (SAIL) at Telefonica Scientific Research, a 25+ researcher team based in Barcelona, Spain. He holds a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of South Florida, USA (2012) and has over 90 published peer-reviewed papers and 8 filed patents. Currently, he focuses on privacy-preserving, fair, secure AI and federated learning on the edge, modeling/detecting with AI different user online privacy leaks, as well as inappropriate/fraudulent behavior on social media. He executed several research visits in ANL (USA), INRIA (France), Yahoo (Spain/USA), UCL (UK), CUT (Cyprus), AUTH (Greece), FORTH (Greece), and others. He has served in many technical committees of top conferences and journals, and presented his work in top academic and industrial venues including Mobile World Congress 2021 and 2023, Apache Foundation, etc. His work has been covered by major news outlets such as Nature, New York Times, The Atlantic, New Scientist, Washington Post, Wired, and others. In 2022, he was ranked among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (2021) in the list prepared by Elsevier BV, Stanford University, USA.

Panel

Accepted Papers

• Artificial Intelligence in Education: Ethical Considerations and Insights from Ancient Greek Philosophy (Kostas Karpouzis)
• In pursuit of effective fundamental rights protection in the age of AI: exploring the potential of positive obligations (Andrea Palumbo)
• Local Explanations and Self-Explanations for Assessing Faithfulness in Black-Box LLMs (Christos Fragkathoulas and Odysseas S. Chlapanis)
• Legal realities arising from the use of Artificial Intelligence in the sector of employment (Georgios Kotlidas, Terpsithea Papanikolaou, and Maria Oraiozili Koutsoupia)

Workshop Program

Thursday, September 12, 10:00 – 13:00

More info:

• Conference Website: https://setn2024.cs.unipi.gr/
• Contact workshop chairs: reaiworkshop2024@gmail.com

More info:

• Conference Website: https://setn2024.cs.unipi.gr/
• Contact workshop chairs: reaiworkshop2024@gmail.com