RE4AI 2024: Requirements Engineering for Artificial Intelligence Campus Stadt-Mitte, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) Winterthur, Switzerland, April 8, 2024 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/re4ai/home?authuser=0 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=re4ai |
Submission deadline | February 9, 2024 |
The 5th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Artificial Intelligence (RE4AI 2024) is part of REFSQ 2024 (The 30th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering).
Nowadays AI is embedded in software and hardware systems, from everyday objects, such as cars, household appliances, wearable devices, to unmanned military vehicles and arms. AI techniques are impacting several industries, and the role of humans in performing creative tasks in domains such as film making, journalism, is challenged by Generative AI. This fosters daily discussions about the opportunities and the risks of AI, at social and individual levels, and calls for responsible development of AI. In particular, we have seen in the past few years, a raise in concerns regarding AI systems, including the emergence of manifestos asking for more regulation and even requesting a pause in giant AI experiments.
For several years (e.g., 2015 open letter and a document about research priorities), AI researchers have manifested their worries and recommendations for the responsible use of data, employment of discrimination-free algorithms, alignment of AI-based systems and technologies with human values and transparency. Their main aim with such claims is to create awareness in policy makers. As a response, in 2018, Europe has defined three pillars, which state that regarding AI systems, European countries should: be ahead in public and private technological development; support education to prepare for emerging social-economical changes; and assure an appropriate ethical and legal framework. In 2019, Europe further developed its approach in what is known as Trustworthy AI manifesto, which states that AI systems should be lawful, ethical and robust. These principles are at the basis of the work on a European proposal for a legal framework on AI, defining a legal environment and risk levels to be used in the classification on how critical are AI solutions. In June 2023, the EU Parliament discussed the AI act and took some important decisions, including the ban of AI systems classified as posing an unacceptable level of risk to people’s safety, for example remote biometric identification systems in public spaces and predictive policing systems based on profiling.
It is hard to imagine that AI systems will achieve these aforementioned attributes without accounting for a strong emphasis on capturing and maintaining “the right” requirements, and making sure that the system is validated to properly meet such requirements. As the RE community is aware, this entails a myriad of methods and tools covering all RE activities, including requirements analysis, documentation and evolution. Nevertheless, many AI systems are today developed without much focus on the early development stages. In other words, much focus is put on combining different algorithms and heuristics, without however a more abstract view on what the system should deliver. As a result of the lack of RE support, the resulting system may be far from what is intended, leading to failing projects and systems that go rogue, which may ultimately cause harm to human individuals and society.
The main goals of the RE4AI Workshop may be summarized as follows:
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raising awareness in the RE community about the importance of RE in realizing Trustworthy AI systems;
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bringing in the same room people involved in RE4AI research to discuss pressing issues, such as how RE can contribute to prevent AI systems to fail or to go rogue;
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setting up the basis for collaboratively producing a report on the challenges, candidate solution paths, and research priorities regarding RE4AI
To achieve these goals, we plan a workshop which mixes invited talks and technical paper sessions.
Submission Guidelines
We invite two kinds of submissions:
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Research paper (10-15 pages): Long paper, describing a full-fledged research work, including motivation, state of the art discussion, proposal, validation and analysis of related works.
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Research Preview paper (6 pages): Short paper, specifying a problem related to any of the workshop topics, and a roadmap towards addressing it.
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Position paper (6 pages): Short paper, stating the position of the author(s) on any of the workshop topics.
A paper of either kind will be evaluated on its potential for generating discussion, on practical relevance and on the originality of the positions stated. We plan to publish accepted papers in CEUR, in the REFSQ workshop volume, as is the tradition in REFSQ.
Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions should be written in English and submitted in PDF format (page size A4, single column) formatted according to the CEUR Proceedings Style. Formatting styles can be found here. If you use Overleaf, here is the link to their new CEUR template, available at: https://tinyurl.com/OverleafTemplateforCEUR
Papers should be submitted through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=re4ai
Committees
Program Committee
- Dan Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Davide Dell'Anna, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Alessio Ferrari, ISTI-CNR, Italy
- Irit Hadar, University of Haifa, Israel
- Eric Knauss, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel
- Zhi Jin, Peking University, China
- Nauman A. Qureshi, Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland
- Kurt Schneider, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
- Andreas Vogelsang, TU-Berlin, Germany
- Krzysztof Wnuk, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Organizing committee
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Renata Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands
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Khan Mohammad Habibullah, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Anna Perini, FBK, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
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Angelo Susi, FBK, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to khanmo@chalmers.se