[Event at CIG] [CfP] 1st Call for Contributions to WISDOMS - ethics, values and knowledge graphs @ESWC24, May 26-30, Hersonissos (GR)

[Maria Hedblom]

[Apologies for potential crossposting]

We are excited to announce the call for papers for WISDOMS
<https://wisdoms-workshop.github.io/> 2024, a workshop focusing on the
integration of data semantics, ontologies, moral values, and their societal
impact.

*About the Workshop:*
The growing influence of AI in our daily lives has transformed both the
digital landscape and the way we generate, extract and represent
information. The surge in using Large Language Models (LLMs) not only in
academia and industry but among the public, has made it increasingly
important to address the alignment of AI tools to moral and cultural human
values. Despite ongoing governmental work on developing ethical guidelines
and practical requirements for AI, for academic and industrial applications
there is a particular importance to ensure that the research respective
practical methods follow ethical practices and that the outcomes do not
conflict with moral values. As hybridizing knowledge structures and
semantic data with generative AI has a high impact potential for the
development of increasingly more complex and intelligent systems, it
becomes of the utmost importance that such innovation adheres to the EU’s
objective of realizing AI applications that are dependable, robust,
explicable, ethically guided, and therefore trustworthy.

The first edition of *WISDOMS, the Workshop on Integrating the Semantics of
Data, Ontologies, Moral and cultural values and their Societal impact*,
aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for researchers,
practitioners, and those curious enough to explore the convergence of
ethics, socio-behavioural norms, moral and cultural values, with hybrid
neuro-symbolic knowledge structures and generative AI.
Join us in discussing the socio-ethical boundaries of AI innovation!

*Important Dates:*

   - *Submission Deadline:* March 7, 2024
   - *Author Notification:* April 4, 2024
   - *Final Version Due:* April 18, 2024
   - *Workshop Dates:* May 26/27, 2024


*List of Topics:*
WISDOMS invite paper contributions related to (but not restricted to) the
following areas:

   - Ethical dilemmas in value knowledge representation
   - Development of value-centric vocabularies and ontologies
   - Societal impact of (non-)ethical AI
   - Moral and cultural value knowledge graphs and semantic resources
   - Value-driven system design and explainability
   - Value-sensitive autonomous agents
   - Neuro-symbolic and hybrid semantic web tools for moral reasoning in AI


*Type of Contributions:*
We welcome diverse contributions including research papers, case studies,
and theoretical explorations that align with the workshop's themes.
We accept four types of contributions:

   - *Full Papers* (10-12 pages excluding references)
   - *Short Papers* (5-8 pages excluding references)
   - *Position Papers* (1-4 pages excluding references, not included in the
   proceedings)
   - *Extended Abstracts* of recently published papers (1-4 pages excluding
   references, not included in the proceedings)


Submissions must be sent via Easychair
<https://easychair.org/cfp/wisdoms2024> and should be formatted in CEUR
1-column format (template available on workshop website).

For inclusion in the workshop, at least one of the authors of accepted
papers needs to register at ESWC 2024 and participate on-site at WISDOMS.

*Location:*
WISDOMS is co-located with ESWC 2024 <https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/> held
on the beautiful island city Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. This year, ESWC
has the timely theme on Fabrics of Knowledge: Knowledge Graphs and
Generative AI.
Join us at WISDOMS to add a flair of ethics to the main conference!
We look forward to your valuable contributions to a fruitful and
thought-provoking discussion on these critical issues.

Best regards,

Stefano De Giorgis
Luana Bulla
Maria Hedblom
Luc Steels