WAAS 2020 : IEEE Workshop on Assured Autonomous Systems

WAAS seeks contributions on all aspects of AI safety, security, and privacy in autonomous systems. Papers that encourage the discussion and exchange of experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, and works in progress are preferred. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

AI SAFETY

Detecting dataset anomalies that lead to unsafe AI decisions
Engineering trusted AI software architectures
Status of existing approaches in ensuring AI/ML safety and gaps to be addressed
AI safety considerations and experience from industry
Evaluating safety of AI systems according to their potential risks and vulnerabilities
Resilient, explainable deep learning, and interpretable machine learning
Game theoretic analysis on machine learning models
Misuse of AI and deep learning

SECURITY AND PRIVACY

Detecting dataset anomalies that lead to autonomous system security and privacy violations
Differential privacy and privacy-preserving learning and generative models
Adversarial attacks on machine learning and defenses against adversarial attacks
Attacks against deep learning and security of deep learning systems
Theoretical foundations of machine learning security
Formal verification of machine learning models and systems
Define and understand AI vulnerabilities and exploitable bugs in ML systems
Improve resiliency of AI methods and algorithms to various forms of attacks

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

You are invited to submit regular papers of up to six pages, or four pages for works in progress, including references. To be considered, papers must be received by the submission deadline. Submissions must be original work and may not be under submission to another venue at the time of review. Please mark all of your conflicts of interest when submitting your paper.

Papers must be formatted for US letter (not A4) size paper. The text must be formatted in a two-column layout, with columns no more than 9.5 in. tall and 3.5 in. wide. The text must be in Times font, 10-point or larger, with 11-point or larger line spacing. Authors are strongly recommended to use the latest IEEE conference proceedings templates. Failure to adhere to the page limit and formatting requirements are grounds for rejection without review.

SUBMISSION SITE

Submissions will be done through EasyChair. Please check the Dates for final deadlines.

PRESENTATION FORM

All accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop and included in the IEEE workshop proceedings. Due to time constraints, accepted papers will be selected for presentation as either talk or poster based on their review score and novelty. Nonetheless, all accepted papers should be considered as having equal importance.