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Call for Papers
The ICDM 2023 Workshop on Causal and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (CXAI 2023)
In conjunction with IEEE ICDM 2023, Shanghai, China, 4 Dec 2023
Paper submission deadline: 3 Sept 2023
https://cxai2023.pyai.au
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AIM & SCOPE
Over the last decade, machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been increasingly adopted in various domains, such as healthcare, finance, and transportation. However, the lack of transparency and interpretability in AI/ML models has resulted in a growing demand to make them more understandable to humans. This is crucial for ensuring effective collaboration between humans and AI systems, and for ensuring regulatory compliance. Therefore, the upcoming CXAI workshop aims to address these challenges by providing a platform for AI/ML researchers and practitioners from various countries to share their recent research outcomes and experiences in causal inference/discovery and interpretable/explainable AI. The workshop will take place on 4 Dec 2023 and will focus on improving transparency and interpretability in AI/ML models for real-world applications.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Structure learning and causal discovery
Causal inference and Bayesian networks
Counterfactual reasoning
Interpretable machine learning
Explainable methods
Model interpretability
Feature importance
Prediction interpretation and justification
Responsible and trustable AI
Ethical AI
Causal models and other methods for ML model interpretation and justification
Model visualisation and conveying decisions to end users
Applications of causal and explainable AI in the environment, agriculture, energy, engineering, education, finance, marketing, medicine, health and other domains.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit original papers with a limit of 8 pages maximum plus a possible 2 extra pages for references and appendices, in the IEEE 2-column format. All submissions will be triple-blind reviewed. More detailed information can be found in the IEEE ICDM 2023 Submission Guidelines. Accepted workshop papers will be published in the dedicated ICDMW proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.
Manuscripts must be submitted electronically on the online submission system.

SPECIAL ISSUE
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible inclusion in a Special Issue on Causal and Explainable Artificial Intelligence in the Applied Sciences journal.

ATTENDANCE
At least one author of each accepted paper must complete the ICDM 2023 conference registration and present the paper at the conference, in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings and conference program. The exact format of the conference (in-person, online, or hybrid) will be decided later and be announced on the ICDM 2023 website.

IMPORTANT DATES
27 Aug 2023: Abstract registration
3 Sept 2023: Paper submission deadline
24 Sept 2023: Notification of acceptance
1 Oct 2023: Camera-ready deadline
4 Dec 2023: Workshop date
All dates are listed in Beijing Time.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Yanchang Zhao CSIRO, Australia
Ainura Tursunalieva CSIRO, Australia
Yun Sing Koh The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Yan Liu University of Southern California, USA
Gilad Francis CSIRO, Australia

CONTACTS
Yanchang Zhao (yanchang.zhao (at) csiro.au)
Ainura Tursunalieva (ainura.tursunalieva (at) csiro.au)