Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems are increasingly seen in many domains such as self-driving land vehicles, autonomous aircraft, and medical systems. AI systems should equal or surpass human performance, but given the consequences of failure in these systems, how do we determine that the data gathered to train an AI system is suitably representative of the real world? How do we assure the public that these systems work as intended and will not cause harm? These questions have given rise to a new term: “assured autonomy.” In this workshop, issues in assured autonomy such as explain ability, bias, verification, validation, privacy, trust and more for AI and ML systems will be explored. Research, experiences and best practices will be presented to illustrate the challenges and possible approaches to assured autonomy. Finally, the road ahead will be explored.

This workshop will bring together participants from industry, academia and government to tackle these challenging issues. In addition to paper presentations, two panel discussions including international experts from government, industry and academia will be conducted.

Workshop will occur on October 31st. All times are EDT.

Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines as implemented by the following LaTeX/Word templates:

• LaTex Package (use bare_conf.tex) (ZIP)
• Word Template (DOCX)

Papers should not exceed ten pages in IEEE style, including references and bios.

Paper submission will be done electronically through EasyChair, selecting the track "The First IEEE International Workshop on Workshop on Assured Autonomy, AI and Machine Learning".

Each paper must be submitted as a single Portable Document Format (PDF) file. All fonts must be embedded. We also strongly recommend you print the file and review it for integrity (fonts, symbols, equations etc.) before submitting it. A defective printing of your paper can undermine its chance of success. Please take a note of the following:

• Submissions should be anonymous.
• The first page must include the title of the paper and a maximum 200-word abstract.
• The first page is not a separate page, but is a part of the paper (i.e., it has technical material in it). Thus, this page counts toward the total page budget for the paper.
• Pages should be numbered.
• The use of color for figures and graphs is allowed only if the paper turns out to be readable if printed in grayscale
• Symbols and labels used in the graphs should be readable as printed, without requiring on-screen magnification.
• Try to limit the file size to less than 15 MB

Authors of accepted papers will be expected to supply electronic versions of their papers and are encouraged to supply source code and raw data to help others replicate and better understand their results.