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                      CALL FOR PAPERS
  International Workshop on Explainable and Interpretable
                 Machine Learning (XI-ML)

      to be held on Sept. 21, 2020, Bamberg, Germany
                  co-located with KI 2020
  
               http://www.cslab.cc/xi-ml-2020/
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Important Dates:
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** Submission Deadline: Jun 23, 2020 (23:59 AoE Time)
** Notification of Acceptance: Aug 04, 2020
** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Aug 21, 2020
** Workshop date: September 21, 2020


Objectives:
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With the current scientific discourse on explainable AI (XAI),
algorithmic transparency, interpretability, accountability and finally
explainability of algorithmic models and decisions, this workshop
on explainable and interpretable machine learning tackles these themes
from the modeling and learning perspective; it targets interpretable
methods and models being able to explain themselves and their output,
respectively. The workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum
to investigate fundamental issues in explainable and interpretable
machine learning as well as to discuss recent advances, trends, and
challenges in this area.

Overall, we are interested in receiving papers related to the following
topics which include but are not limited to:

* Rule learning for explainable and interpretable machine learning
* Assessment of interpretable and explainable models
* Cognitive approaches and human concept learning
* Human-centered learning and explanation
* Causality of machine learning models
* Local pattern mining for explanation
* Interpretation of black box models
* Explanation of black box models
* Model-agnostic explanation
* Case-based explanation
* Evaluation metrics
* Empirical research on explainability
* Regulations and legal aspects of XAI
* Applications of all of the above


Submissions:
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We will solicit short position papers (2-4 pages) and peer-reviewed
research papers (8-16 pages) in LNCS format. Papers should be submitted
in EasyChair to https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=xi-ml-2020

All submitted papers must
* be written in English;
* contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
* be formatted according to the Springer LNCS template
(https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines);
* be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform).


The proceedings will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings
series. We will also consider publishing a selection of extended papers
in a special issue of an international journal.


Workshop Organizers:
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Martin Atzmueller, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Tomáš Kliegr, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic
Ute Schmid, University of Bamberg, Germany


Program Committee:
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Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Maria Bielikova, Slovak Research Center for AI - slovak.AI
Henrik Boström, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Amit Dhurandhar, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Johannes Fürnkranz, University of Linz, Austria
Martin Holena, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Eyke Hüllermeier, University of Paderborn, Germany
Kristian Kersting, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Grzegorz Nalepa, Jagellonian University, Poland
Mykola Pechenizkyi, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Marc Plantevit, University Lyon, France
Eric Postma, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Celine Rouveirol, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France
Stefano Teso, KU Leuven, Belgium