• 21 Jun, 2022 - 24 Jun, 2022
  • All day

In conjunction with the 14th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2022 – 21-24 June 2022 – Sophia Antipolis, France)

 

The TAS Hub Syllabus Lab is organising its first Workshop on Methods, Tools and Techniques for TAS Design and Development. This workshop is organised in collaboration with Cybernetics Society, Australian National University (ANU) School of Cybernetics, Thales and University of Exeter. This workshop focuses on methods, tools, and techniques to design and develop Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS).

 

Autonomous systems are trustworthy when their design, engineering, and operation ensure they generate positive outcomes and mitigate potentially harmful outcomes. The extent to which these systems are trusted depends on a number of factors including but not limited to explainability, robustness and verifiability. Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) is an emerging area of interactive systems that is expanding the scope and remit of engineering. At every scale, making autonomous systems trustworthy is a collective task that requires a multidisciplinary team to work together to understand trust design requirements and provide effective and creative solutions.

 

TAS engineers need robust design methods, tools, and techniques to meet diverse TAS requirements and objectives. Our prior research argued for TAS engineers to develop skills in three core areas: soft, strategic, and technical. However, little has been done to flesh out the specific methods, tools and techniques that TAS engineers should draw on.

 

This workshop intends to invite interactive systems experts to contribute promising design methods, tools, and techniques – particularly in the area of user/actor and design requirements modelling. The workshop aims to present cutting-edge modelling techniques, and to test these approaches through discussion, to think about main challenges, refine TAS required skills, and steer the overarching strategy in this new field for the future.

 

Registration policy

 

To participate in a workshop, attendees need to register for the main conference (EICS 2022).

 

Abstract Submissions

 

We encourage interested participants to submit an abstract (1-2 pages) on promising design methods, tools, and techniques – particularly in the area of user/actor and design requirements modelling. Methods, tools or techniques selected should emphasise the role and place of trustworthiness in requirements modelling. The authors of three accepted abstracts will each be given a 20-minute slot to give an oral presentation during the workshop.

 

Topics for submissions include, but are not limited to:

 

    • Adaptation of existing interactive systems requirements modelling methods, tools or techniques.
    • Proposals of new methods, tools or techniques for requirements modelling.
    • Case studies of real-world TAS requirements modelling.
    • Experience reports by practitioners and researchers.
    • Tools or techniques for cross-disciplinary teams, collaboration and communication.

 

Once the abstract is accepted, we will ask authors to submit a short paper prior to the workshop (a 6-page paper).

 

Important dates

 

    • April 15th, 2022 – deadline for abstract submission
    • April 22nd 2022 – notification of accepted workshop abstracts
    • April 29th 2022 – camera-ready deadline for workshop abstracts.
    • June 21st 2022 – workshop day
Organisers

Meet Our Workshop Organisers

Professor Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn
Director, UKRI TAS Hub

Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Agents, Interaction, and Complexity research group, University of Southampton; TAS Hub Director

Dr Caitlin Bentley
Co-Investigator

Lecturer in AI-enabled Information Systems, University of Sheffield

Dr Mohammad Naiseh
Lead contact

Research Fellow in Trustworthy Autonomous Systems at the University of Southampton

Dr Edmond Awad
Workshop organiser

Dr Edmond Awad is a Lecturer at the University of Exeter Business School

Dr Elizabeth Williams
Workshop organiser

Dr Elizabeth T. Williams is a Senior Lecturer at the 3A Institute (3Ai) within the School of Cybernetics at the Australian National University (ANU)

Mr Christophe Alix
Workshop organiser

Mr Christophe Alix is a Senior Systems Architect (Autonomous Systems), Strategy &  Innovation Manager within the Thales Technical Directorate.