Connectionists: AIMLAI at CIKM2022: International Workshop on Advances in Interpretable Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

[Benoît Frénay]

We invite researchers working on interpretability and explainability in 
ML/AI, and related topics, to submit regular (8 pages, single column) or 
short (3 pages, single column) papers to the AIMLAI workshop that will 
be held at CIKM 2022.
Website: https://project.inria.fr/aimlai/
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aimlaicikm22
Submission deadline: August 15, 2022

The purpose of AIMLAI (Advances in Interpretable Machine Learning and 
Artificial Intelligence) is to encourage principled research that will 
lead to the advancement of explainable, transparent, ethical and fair 
data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. AIMLAI is a 
workshop that seeks top-quality submissions addressing uncovered 
important issues related to explainable and interpretable data mining 
and machine learning models. Papers should present novel research 
results in any of the topics of interest for the workshop as well as 
application experiences, tools and promising preliminary ideas. AIMLAI 
asks for contributions from researchers, academia and industry, working 
on topics addressing these challenges primarily from a technical point 
of view, but also from a legal, ethical or sociological perspective. 
Besides the central topic of interpretable algorithms and explanation 
methods, we also welcome submissions that answer research questions like 
"how to measure and evaluate interpretability and explainability?" and 
"how to integrate humans in the machine learning pipeline for 
interpretability purposes?". This year's edition of AIMLAI is open to 
two kinds of submissions: regular papers (6 pages, double column) and 
extended abstracts (2 pages, double column).

A non-exhaustive list of topics that are of interest for AIMLAI are the 
following:
* Interpretable ML
    * Supervised and Unsupervised ML
    * Explaining recommendation models
    * Multimodal explanations
* Transparency in AI and ML
    * Ethical aspects
    * Legal aspects
    * Fairness issues
* Methodology and formalization of interpretability
    * Formal measures of interpretability
    * Interpretability/complexity trade-offs
    * How to evaluate interpretability
* User-centric interpretability
    * Explanation modules
    * Interpretability and Semantics: how to add semantics to explanations?
    * Human-in-the-loop to construct and/or evaluate interpretable models
    * Integration of ML algorithms, infovis and man-machine interfaces

- Submission Guidelines
Papers must be written in English and formatted according to the ACM 
sigconf template. Regular papers must be 6 pages long maximum. Extended 
abstracts are restricted to a maximum of 2 pages. Overlength papers will 
be rejected without review (papers with smaller page margins and font 
sizes than specified in the author instructions and set in the style 
files will also be treated as overlength).
Authors who submit their work to AIMLAI 2022 commit themselves to 
present their paper at the workshop in case of acceptance. AIMLAI 2022 
considers the author list submitted with the paper as final. No 
additions or deletions to this list may be made after paper submission, 
either during the review period, or in case of acceptance, at the final 
camera ready stage.
Condition for inclusion in the post-proceedings is that at least one of 
the co-authors has (in-person or virtually) presented the paper at the 
workshop.
All papers for AIMLAI 2022 must be submitted by using the online 
submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aimlaicikm22.

- Program Chairs
* Adrien Bibal, University of Louvain, Belgium
* Tassadit Bouadi, University of Rennes/IRISA, France
* Benoît Frénay, University of Namur, Belgium
* Luis Galárraga, Inria/IRISA, France
* José Oramas, University of Antwerp/imec-IDLab, Belgium

- Important dates
All dates are given in Central European Standard Time (CEST).
* Paper submission deadline: August 15, 2022
* Paper reviewing period: August 18, 2022 - September 10, 2022
* Paper Notifications: September 15, 2022
* Camera-ready deadline: September 30, 2022

- Publication
All accepted papers will be published as post-proceedings at 
https://proceedings.mlr.press/.

- Venue
The workshop will be co-located with the CIKM conference, which will be 
held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA from the 17th to the 22nd of October, 2022.

Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to 
aimlaicikm22 at easychair.org.