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ASE 2019
Sun 10 - Fri 15 November 2019 San Diego, California, United States

Software is the driving force behind many innovations in all aspects of human life and, thus, decisions of software have a profound effect on the society. It is therefore highly important that software and its decisions can be explained to understand the reasons for the decisions as well as discuss and possibly subsequently change the software. The EXPLAIN workshop addresses this highly relevant topic of explainable software. The workshop seeks to bring researchers from the various areas in software engineering together and to provide a forum for the exchange on challenges, research directions, and ideas on explainable software.

Please see https://explainws.github.io/ for more details about the workshop.

Plenary
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Fri 15 Nov

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09:00 - 10:30
Welcome and KeynoteEXPLAIN at Cortez 1B
Chair(s): Matthias Tichy Ulm University, Germany
09:00
15m
Day opening
Welcome
EXPLAIN

09:15
75m
Talk
Causality and Fairness in Software
EXPLAIN
Yuriy Brun University of Massachusetts Amherst
11:00 - 12:30
Explainability and CodeEXPLAIN at Cortez 1B
Chair(s): Ilias Gerostathopoulos Technical University of Munich
11:00
30m
Talk
Explaining Static Analysis - A Perspective
EXPLAIN
Marcus Nachtigall , Lisa Nguyen Quang Do Google, Eric Bodden Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University and Fraunhofer IEM
11:30
30m
Talk
A Hybrid Editor for Fast Robot Mission Prototyping
EXPLAIN
Thomas Witte Ulm University, Matthias Tichy Ulm University, Germany
12:00
30m
Talk
Explaining Business Process Software with Fulib-Scenarios
EXPLAIN
Albert Zündorf Kassel University, Sebastian Copei Kassel University, Ira Diethelm Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg / University of Oldenburg, Claude Draude Kassel University, Adrian Kunz Kassel University, Ulrich Norbisrath University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
16:00 - 17:30
Working GroupsEXPLAIN at Cortez 1B
16:00
60m
Other
Working Groups
EXPLAIN

17:00
20m
Talk
Report from Working Groups
EXPLAIN

17:20
10m
Day closing
Closing
EXPLAIN

Call for Papers

Specifically, the workshop seeks contributions related but not limited to the following list of topics:

  • explainable AI
  • explaining algorithms and/or their decisions
  • Creating a chaing of evidence
  • quality assurance of learning and adaptive models and algorithms
  • partial and live evaluation of source code
  • explaining impact of algorithms on users and their behavior
  • legal aspects of fully automatic decision making
  • visualizations of algorithms and algorithm decisions
  • tools support for joint decision making of humans and machines

This will be the first edition of the EXPLAIN workshop. The workshop will focus on (1) the identification of problems, e.g., how to ensure understandable explanations and what aspect of a software’s decision should be explained, (2) discussion on ideas how to provide explanations, and (3) building a community for explainable software.

We welcome 4 page research, experience report and position papers. Research papers are expected to describe new research results and make contributions to the body of knowledge in the area. Experience reports are expected to describe experiences with (amongst other things) providing, creating, and using explanations in the development, deployment, and maintenance of software. Position papers are expected to discuss controversial issues or describe interesting or thought provoking ideas thatare not yet fully developed.

All papers need to follow the general formatting guidelines and policies. Submissions not conforming to these will be desk-rejected.