Connectionists: [CfP] xAI25 Conference Special Track: Explainable and Interactive Hybrid Decision Making (July 9-11 2025, Istanbul, Turkey)

[Chiara Natali]

[apologies for cross posting]

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The 3rd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence
09-11 July, 2025 - Istanbul, Turkey
https://xaiworldconference.com/2025/
Call for Papers for Special Track on Explainable and Interactive Hybrid Decision Making: https://xaiworldconference.com/2025/explainable-and-interactive-hybrid-decision-making/
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This special track explores human-AI interaction in explainable AI (XAI) by integrating traditional XAI techniques with external knowledge sources. It focuses on hybrid human-AI decision-making, leveraging human expertise—intuition, ethics, and context—with AI’s data processing and predictive capabilities. The track emphasizes systems that provide accurate predictions and contextually meaningful explanations tailored to diverse users. These systems combine structured knowledge bases for consistency, unstructured data for adaptability, and multidisciplinary approaches for user-centric design. Addressing challenges in data integration, context awareness, and explanation personalization, the track highlights how explainable hybrid systems enhance decision quality, foster trust, and ensure ethical accountability. Submissions should present innovative methods that explain both “how” decisions are made and “why” they matter, promoting transparent and collaborative human-AI interaction.


Topics of Interest

	• Frameworks and techniques for human-AI interaction and hybrid systems, including counterfactual reasoning and example-based explanations.
	• Explaining complex decision chains in Human-xAI hybrid systems (e.g., behavioural and psychometric analysis of users)
	• Knowledge-injected explanations (e.g., domain-specific and actionable explanations through ontologies)
	• Strategies for increasing user trust (e.g., confidence interval visualizations, uncertainty heatmaps)
	• Case studies, applications and challenges for Explainable hybrid systems in critical sectors
	• Post-hoc eXplanation techniques for Learning-to-Defer systems
	• Interpretable models for Learning-to-Defer approaches to build Human-AI teams
	• Explainable Learning-to-Reject and selective classification
	• Formal methods for verifiable hybrid decision systems (e.g., symbolic reasoning, and decision boundary visualizations)
	• Bias mitigation in hybrid decision systems (e.g., counterfactual fairness analysis, fairness-aware optimization of explanations)
	• Explainable Active Learning (e.g., feedback-driven iterative refinement of decision boundaries)
	• eXplainability-based Interactive Learning Algorithms (e.g., interactive counterfactual scenarios).
	• Novel methods for Causal Evaluation of Explanation Effects in human-AI interaction
	• Explanations for Continual Learning settings with Human-in-the-loop
	• Uncertainty-Aware Explanation methods and Uncertainty Quantification (including novel visualization techniques)
	• Customizable, Interactive and Adaptive User-driven eXplanations
	• Cognitive and Behavioural Foundations of eXplainable AI
	• Empirical user studies on eXplanations for human-AI collaboration (e.g., trust assessments, cognitive load analysis)
	• Evaluation metrics for explainability in hybrid decision-making (e.g., understandability scores, usability, evaluating automation bias)
	• Ethical, legal, societal implications of eXplainable hybrid decision-making (e.g., novel Algorithmic Impact Assessment strategies)


Submission Guidelines

Submitted manuscripts must be novel and not substantially duplicate existing work. Manuscripts must be written using Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) in the format provided here. Latex and word files are admitted; however, the former is preferred. All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically. The conference has a no dual submission policy, so submitted manuscripts must not be currently under review at another publication venue.

Works can be submitted here


Important Dates

Article upload deadline on submission platform (easy-chair)*: February, 28, 2025
Paper bidding for reviewers March 1-3, 2025
Notification of acceptance*: March, 19, 025
Registration (payment) and camera-ready* (upload to easy-chair): March, 26, 2025