The 3rd International Conference on Assured Autonomy (ICAA ’24)

Date: October 10 – 11, 2024
Location: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Please visit our website for additional details: https://icaa-conf.github.io/icaa2024/

Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Assured Autonomy, and the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (Technical Co-Sponsor).

Important Dates

  • Paper submission deadline: 8/7/2024 (Anywhere on Earth)
  • Acceptance notification: 8/31/2024
  • Early Registration: 9/20/2024
  • Regular Registration: 9/27/2024
  • Publication-ready Papers Due: 9/27/2024

Overview

The International Conference on Assured Autonomy (ICAA ’24) plans to address the gap that exists between theory-heavy artificially intelligent autonomous systems and the privacy, security, and safety of their real-world implementations. Advances in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have shown great promise in algorithms and techniques for automating complex decision-making processes across transportation, robotics, critical infrastructure, and cyber infrastructure domains. Practical implementations of these algorithms require significant systems engineering and integration support for safe, trusted, and assured operations, especially as they integrate with the physical world. This need for assurance is further challenged by AI safety, security, privacy, responsibility, bias, and alignment issues.

The focus of this conference is: (1) Design of Assured and Safe Systems with AI and Autonomy, (2) Real-world Studies, Deployments and Industry Uses of Assured AI and Autonomy (3) Methods for Testing and Assuring AI and AI-enabled Autonomous Systems, and (4) Security and Privacy of AI and Autonomous Systems, which includes methods to detect, respond, mitigate, and recover resiliently to violations in safety, security, and privacy, and trust.

Topics of Interest

ICAA seeks new methodologies and contributions as well as applications and studies of all aspects of AI safety, security, and assurance in autonomous systems. Papers that encourage the discussion and exchange of experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, real-world uses, case studies and works in progress are requested. Both full papers (up to 10 pages) and working papers (up to 4 pages) will be accepted.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Design for Assured and Safe Autonomy

  • Safe-by-construction methods for autonomous systems
  • Formally verified AI and autonomy
  • Neuro-symbolic learning and reasoning for assured, resilient autonomy
  • Systems that learn and adapt in the field
  • Sim-to-real transfer for assured AI and autonomy
  • Runtime assurance and monitoring
  • Safe learning and control for autonomous and AI-enabled systems
  • Real-world studies, uses, and design considerations of AI for autonomous systems

Methods for Testing and Assuring AI and Autonomy

  • Explainable and interpretable AI-enabled systems
  • Alignment and safety of AI and autonomous systems
  • Standards, ethics, and policies for autonomy and AI to meet responsible AI principles
  • Verification, validation, testing, and assurance of systems with AI and autonomy
  • Evaluating safety of autonomous systems according to their potential risks and vulnerabilities
  • Test, evaluation, certification, and assurance of autonomous AI systems
  • Modeling and simulation, virtual constructive and live testing challenges for AI and autonomous systems
  • Safety, evaluation, and assurance of human-autonomy teaming
  • Evaluation and safety of foundation models
  • Lessons learned from deployments and industrial uses of AI and autonomy

Security and Privacy of AI and Autonomous Systems

  • Detecting dataset anomalies that lead to autonomous system security and privacy violations
  • Detecting data poisoning, model poisoning and system attacks
  • Differential privacy and privacy-preserving learning and generative models
  • Adversarial attacks on AI and autonomy, and defenses against adversarial attacks
  • Mitigation and improved resiliency of AI and autonomous systems to various forms of attacks
  • Engineering trusted autonomous system and AI software architectures
  • Red-teaming and stress testing of AI-enabled systems to identify vulnerabilities
  • Real-world studies of security and privacy challenges for AI and autonomy

Submission Guidelines

You are invited to submit regular papers (up to ten pages), or working papers (up to four pages), 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 should be in IEEE conference format. Templates can be found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

To submit a full-length paper or working paper, please go to our EasyChair submission site at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaa24

All presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. One author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper for it to be included in the proceedings.