reminder: Neuro-symbolic AI for Agent and Multi-Agent systems [NeSyMAS] Workshop

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Please see the following Call for Papers as part of AAMAS 2023,
London, 29 May - 02 June.

Neuro-symbolic AI for Agent and Multi-Agent systems [NeSyMAS] Workshop
Paper submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nesymas2023

AI has vast potential, some of which has been realised by developments
in deep learning methods. However, it has become clear that these
approaches have reached an impasse and that such “sub-symbolic” or
“neuro-inspired”
techniques only work well for certain classes of problem and are
generally opaque to both analysis and understanding. "Symbolic" AI
techniques, based on rules, logic and reasoning, while not as
efficient as “sub-symbolic”
approaches, have better behaviour in terms of transparency,
explainability, verifiability and, indeed, trustworthiness. A new
direction described as “neuro-symbolic” AI combines the efficiency of
“sub-symbolic” AI with he transparency of “symbolic” AI. This
combination potentially provides a new wave of AI systems that are
both interpretable and elaboration tolerant and can integrate
reasoning and learning in a very general way.

Though there is work on neuro-symbolic AI for competing with classical
ML models, such as its use of label-free supervision and graph
embeddings, there is much less on the use for agent modelling or
multi-agent systems.
Especially in a multi-agent context, the use of symbolic models for
mental state reasoning together with low-level perception patterns or
formation of reasoning-capable representations from subsymbolic data,
all represent promising areas where MAS offers a unique perspective.

This workshop’s aim is thus to assemble leading-edge work in which
neuro-symbolic AI approaches and MAS interact.

TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Explicit agency in neuro-symbolic multi-agent systems
Neuro-symbolic Reinforcement Learning
Neuro-symbolic robotics and planning
Mental models and epistemic logics for MAS
Multiagency flavours
Symbolic knowledge representations for subsymbolic MAS
Neural-symbolic multi-agent systems
Hybrid agent architectures
Formal analysis of neural-symbolic multi-agent systems


SUBMISSION
We welcome unpublished technical papers of up to 8 pages, and short
(2-4 pages) position papers. Papers should be written in English, be
prepared for single-blind reviewing, be submitted as a PDF document,
and conform to the formatting guidelines of AAMAS 2023:
https://aamas2023.soton.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/443/2022/06/AAMAS-2023-Formatting-Instructions.zip

Papers selected for presentation at the workshop will be included in
the workshop’s proceedings as open-access publications, tentatively in
CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/) or EPTCS (https://www.eptcs.org/).

Please use the following link to submit your paper:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nesymas2023

DEADLINES
Important dates [All dates are 23:59 AoE]

Paper submission deadline: 13 March 2023
Paper acceptance notification:17 April 2023
Camera-ready deadline: 15 May 2023
Workshop:  29 or 30 May, 2023


Organising Committee
Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh, UK
Michael Fisher, University of Manchester, UK
Xiaowei Huang, University of Liverpool, UK
Masoumeh Mansouri, University of Birmingham, UK
Albert Meroño-Peñuela, King’s College London, UK
Sriraam Natarajan, UT Dallas, USA
Efi Tsamoura, Samsung Cambridge, UK

This workshop is organised by the Interest Group in Neuro-Symbolic AI
of The Alan Turing Institute. You can find more information about us
and how to join the Interest Group on our website,
https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/interest-groups/neuro-symbolic-ai