<html><body><div id="zimbraEditorContainer" style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000" class="2"><div></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><div>CALL FOR PAPERS</div><br><div>The 1st International Workshop on EXplainable, TRansparent, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (EXTRAAMAS-19)</div><br><div>In conjunction with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2019)</div><br><div>13th and 14th of May 2019 in Montreal, Canada.</div><br><div>https://extraamas.ehealth.hevs.ch</div><br><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Description</div><div>==========</div><br><div>The aim of the EXTRAAMAS-19 workshop is to:</div><div>- Establish a common ground for the study and development of explainable and understandable autonomous agents, robots and multi-agent systems,</div><div>- Investigate the potential of agent-based systems in the development of personalized user-aware explainable AI,</div><div>- Assess the impact of transparent and explained solutions on user/agents behaviors, and</div><div>- Discuss motivating examples and concrete applications in which the lack of explainability leads to problems that can be resolved by explainability.</div><br><div>----------------------------------------------</div><div>Topics</div><div>======</div><br><div>The main topics of the EXTRAAMAS-19 workshop are (but not restricted to):</div><div>- Explainable agent architectures</div><div>- Adaptive and personalized explainable agents</div><div>- Explainable human-robot interaction</div><div>- Expressive robots</div><div>- Explainable planning</div><div>- Explanation visualization</div><div>- Explainable agents’ applications: (e-health, smart environment, driving companion, recommender systems, coaching agents, etc.)</div><div>- Explainable agents’ applications: (e-health, smart environment, driving companion, recommender systems, coaching agents, etc.)</div><div>- Reinforcement learning agents</div><div>- Cognitive and social sciences perspectives on explanations</div><div>- Legal aspects of explainable agents</div><br><div>----------------------------------------------</div><div>Important Dates</div><div>==============</div><br><div>- Deadline for Submissions: February 20, 2019</div><div>- Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2019</div><div>- Camera-ready: April 1, 2019</div><div>- Workshop: May 13-14, 2019</div><br><div>----------------------------------------------</div><div>Submission</div><div>=========</div><br><div>Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee, who are experts in the field. </div><div>The acceptance of the submitted papers will depend on their quality, relevance, and originality.</div><div>To conduct this process, the chairs will rely on easychair to make the reviewing procedure traceable, transparent and accessible. </div><div>In the case of accepted papers characterized by relevant demands (e.g., clarifications, changes, corrections) set by the reviewers, </div><div>the final acceptance will be subject to their accomplishment.</div><br><div>Accepted papers will be published in the Springer proceedings Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). </div><div>Participants are therefore invited to submit papers up to 16 pages in length, addressing the topics of the workshop. </div><div>Papers must be edited using the LNCS format (applying the LNCS proceedings template), </div><div>and have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair submission page. </div><br><div>The top papers will be published in Special Issue of a journal with a relevant impact factor (to be announced).</div><br><div>----------------------------------------------</div><div>Program Chairs</div><div>=============</div><br><div>- Kary Främling (Umeå University, Sweden / Aalto University, Finland)</div><div>- Davide Calvaresi (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland)</div><div>- Amro Najjar (Umeå University, Sweden)</div><div>- Michael Schumacher (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland)</div><br><div>----------------------------------------------</div><div>Advisory Board</div><div>=============</div><br><div>- Virginia Dignum (Umeå University, Sweden)</div><div>- Tim Miller (University of Melbourne, Australia)</div><div>- Catholijn M. Jonker (TU Delft / LIACS Leiden University, The Netherlands)</div><br><div>----------------------------------------------</div><div>Publicity Chairs</div><div>==============</div><br><div>- Yazan Mualla (Univ. de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France)</div><div>- Timotheus Kampik (Umeå University, Sweden)</div><br><div>----------------------------------------------</div><div>Program Committee</div><div>=================</div><br><div>To be announced.</div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>