The TAS Hub Syllabus Lab is organising its first Workshop on Methods, Tools and Techniques for TAS Design and Development. This workshop is organised in collaboration with Cybernetics Society, Australian National University (ANU) School of Cybernetics, Thales and University of Exeter. This workshop focuses on methods, tools, and techniques to design and develop Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS).
Autonomous systems are trustworthy when their design, engineering, and operation ensure they generate positive outcomes and mitigate potentially harmful outcomes. The extent to which these systems are trusted depends on a number of factors including but not limited to explainability, robustness and verifiability. Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) is an emerging area of interactive systems that is expanding the scope and remit of engineering. At every scale, making autonomous systems trustworthy is a collective task that requires a multidisciplinary team to work together to understand trust design requirements and provide effective and creative solutions.
TAS engineers need robust design methods, tools, and techniques to meet diverse TAS requirements and objectives. Our prior research argued for TAS engineers to develop skills in three core areas: soft, strategic, and technical. However, little has been done to flesh out the specific methods, tools and techniques that TAS engineers should draw on.
This workshop intends to invite interactive systems experts to contribute promising design methods, tools, and techniques – particularly in the area of user/actor and design requirements modelling. The workshop aims to present cutting-edge modelling techniques, and to test these approaches through discussion, to think about main challenges, refine TAS required skills, and steer the overarching strategy in this new field for the future.
To participate in a workshop, attendees need to register for the main conference (EICS 2022).
We encourage interested participants to submit an abstract (1-2 pages) on promising design methods, tools, and techniques – particularly in the area of user/actor and design requirements modelling. Methods, tools or techniques selected should emphasise the role and place of trustworthiness in requirements modelling. The authors of three accepted abstracts will each be given a 20-minute slot to give an oral presentation during the workshop.
Topics for submissions include, but are not limited to:
Once the abstract is accepted, we will ask authors to submit a short paper prior to the workshop (a 6-page paper).
