EUMAS’24 will feature a special track on Agents and Ethics. This track is focussed on the implementation of ethical reasoning mechanisms in various autonomous decision-making settings. Depending on the context of the agent (software / hardware), the kinds of values (or value-conflicts) that are encountered could be quite varied. The multiplicity and agency of the stakeholders involved (from highly trained human-machine teams to a cohort of elderly / children), also affect the possible value considerations deeply. This track aims to provide a venue for discussions of problems, possible solution-concepts, best practices, benchmarks, related to machine ethics.
We welcome original, unpublished papers including improved versions of extended abstracts or rejected papers from AAMAS, AAAI and IJCAI 2023. The submission should describe work that has not been previously published, accepted for publication, nor is currently under review by another conference or journal. Proceedings, as a part of EUMAS 2024, will be published as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer
Submissions are solicited on, but not limited to, the following themes / questions:
- What kinds of values and value-conflicts are (in)expressible in algorithmic form?
- Can ethical behaviour be guaranteed or verified in computational media?
- Implementation of ethical reasoning mechanisms founded on non-western ethical traditions
- Can artificial moral decision-making be decoupled from mere implementation of normative ethical theories?
- Privacy and Trust relationships between humans and machines in the presence of hybrid actions
- Implementation of ethical reasoning in logic-based methods
- Representation of ethical principles in AI agents
- Machine-learning based approaches to ethical reasoning
- Development of machine ethics in cognitive robot programs
- Robot learning for ethical reasoning
- Integration of symbolic and neural information systems for ethical reasoning
- Development of formal frameworks for ethical decision-making
- Techniques for explaining the ethical reasoning of AI agents
- Frameworks for ethical collaboration between humans and AI agents
- Building trust in intelligent systems through ethical design and interaction
Important Dates (all deadlines – AoE)
| Submission Deadline | 15-May-2024 |
| Author Notification | 30-June-2024 |
| Camera-ready Deadline | 15-July-2024 |
| Conference Dates | 26-28 August-2024 |
Logistics
Paper size and format – All submissions will be peer-reviewed in a single blind fashion. Submission should be at most 15 pages long, with any number of pages for references and, if needed, a clearly marked appendix and be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS format.
Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eumas2024
Organizing Committee
Vivek Nallur, University College Dublin, Ireland
Marija Slavkovik, University of Bergen, Norway
Sarah Moth-Lund Christensen, Leeds University, UK
Programme Committee
Michael Anderson, University of Hartford
Selmer Bringsjord, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Louise Dennis, University of Manchester
Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales
Yang Song, University of New South Wales
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics Japan
Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Sorbonne, France
John P. Sullins, Sonoma State University
Kevin Baum, University of Saarbrucken
Edmond Awad, University of Exeter
John Horty, University of Maryland
Pere Pardo, University of Luxembourg
Thomas Powers, University of Delaware
Juan Carlos Nieves, Umea University
Ryan Tonkens, Lakehead University
Paul Formosa, Macquarie University, Australia