Call for papers

With AI’s impact on our everyday lives becoming more and more tangible, the need for ethical and trustworthy AI has gained strong recognition by governments, industry, the general public, as well as academics, as evidenced by the numerous ethical guidelines and requirements. The stated goal of the EU strategy is to develop AI in such a way that applications using AI are reliable, robust, explainable, ethically guided and hence trustworthy. Ensuring AI is trustworthy and reliable requires ensuring that it fulfils human needs and respects human values. To achieve this, there is a need to develop software systems that reason about human values and norms, implement these values through norms, and ensure the alignment of behaviour with those values and norms. We argue that just as values guide our own morality, values can guide the morality of software agents and systems, bringing machine morality closer to reality. The result would be value-aware systems that take value-aligned decisions, interpret human behaviour in terms of values and enrich human reasoning by enhancing the human's value-awareness. 

Today there is a growing wealth of work in the field of AI on accounting for human values and working towards value-aligned behaviour. The VALE Track of VECOMP @ ECAI 2024 intends to bring in research on value engineering together and foster in-depth discussions on the topic.

We note that the VALE Track of VECOMP 2024 is a continuation of the past and successful VALE workshop at ECAI 2023.

Topic Areas: 

The relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

Important Dates

(All times Anywhere on Earth (AoE), UTC-12)

Formatting & Submission

Papers should be formatted according to the ECAI 2024 formatting style. 

All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. They should not exceed 7 pages (not including references). 

A single-blind review process will be followed, which means that papers should list the authors.

Papers should be submitted via the ChairingTool submission site. 

Workshop Attendance

Submission of a paper is regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the workshop in person to present their work. 

Proceedings

Pre-proceedings will be made available on this website. 

We also plan to have post-proceedings published by Springer, under its LNAI series, following in the footsteps of VALE 2023.

Ethics Policy

ECAI 2024's ethics policy will be followed:

Research reported at ECAI should avoid harm, be honest and trustworthy, fair and non-discriminatory, and respect privacy and intellectual property. 

Where relevant, authors can include in the main body of their paper, or on the reference page, a short ethics statement that addresses ethical issues regarding the research being reported and the broader ethical impact of the work. 

Reviewers will be asked to flag possible violations of relevant ethical principles. Such flagged submissions will be reviewed by a senior member of the programme committee. Authors may be required to revise their paper to include a discussion of possible ethical concerns and their mitigation.