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==Preface: 3rd Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Artificial Intelligence (RE4AI)==
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3122/RE4AI-preface.pdf
3rd Workshop on Requirements Engineering for
Artificial Intelligence (RE4AI)
Renata Guizzardi1 , Jennifer Horkoff2 , Anna Perini3 and Angelo Susi4
1
University of Twente, The Netherlands
2
Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
3
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
4
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
1. Introduction
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is embedded in software systems used in everyday life, such as cars,
household appliances, wearable devices, healthcare chatbots, as well as in a variety of software
applications that support data-driven decisions, e.g. business intelligence services for insurance
companies.
For several years, AI researchers have manifested their worries and recommendations for the
responsible use of data, employment of discrimination-free algorithms, alignment of AI-based
systems and technologies with human values and transparency.
Awareness for the need of approaches for “Responsible AI” has rapidly increased and moti-
vated attention by normative and standardisation organisations (e.g. EU Ethics Guidelines for
Trustworthy AI1 , and the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Sys-
tems2 ), software technology big players, and diverse research communities, including Software
Engineering and Requirements Engineering research communities.
The Requirements Engineering for Artificial Intelligence (RE4AI) workshop aims to provide
a forum for discussing how Requirements Engineering methods, techniques and tools may be
used to support the development of Artificial Intelligence systems that are lawful, ethical and
robust. The main goals of the RE4AI workshop are as follows: raising awareness in the RE
community about the importance of RE in realizing Trustworthy AI systems; bringing in the
same room people from AI and RE industry and academia to discuss pressing issues, such as
how RE can contribute to prevent AI systems to fail or to go rogue; setting up the basis for
collaboratively producing a report on the challenges, candidate solution paths, and research
In: J. Fischbach, N. Condori-Fern ndez, J. Doerr, M. Ruiz, J.-P. Stegh fer, L. Pasquale, A. Zisman, R. Guizzardi, J.Horkoff,
A. Perini, A. Susi, M. Daneva, A. Herrmann, K. Schneider, P. Mennig, F. Dalpiaz, D. Dell’Anna, S. Kopczyńska, L.
Montgomery, A. G. Darby, and P. Sawyer (eds.): Joint Proceedings of REFSQ-2022 Workshops, Doctoral Symposium, and
Poster Tools Track, Birmingham, UK, 21-03-2022
Envelope-Open r.guizzardi@utwente.nl (R. Guizzardi); jenho@chalmers.se (J. Horkoff); perini@fbk.eu (A. Perini); susi@fbk.eu
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https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/expert-group-ai
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https://standards.ieee.org/industry-connections/ec/autonomous-systems/
priorities regarding RE4AI; and motivating cross fertilization between AI and RE research. The
first edition of the RE4AI workshop was organised in 2020, as a co-located event with the
International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software
Quality (REFSQ 2020). The format of the workshop mixed paper presentations and interactive
sessions. The second edition of the RE4AI workshop was organized with the REFSQ conference
in 2021. Both instances were held virtually due to the ongoing pandemic.
This year, the 3rd RE4AI workshop was organised with REFSQ 2022, in Aston Birmingham,
the United Kingdom. The workshop received three submissions. Each submission was inde-
pendently reviewed by four program committee members, and, as a result, two of them were
accepted. One paper focuses on software design ethical practices, and discuss them on an
industrial case study. The second one focuses on requirements engineering challenges emerging
from current practices in building collaborative robots.
Due to the number of submission, which may have been caused by the uncertainty about travel
rules due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, and the fact that the Author of the second paper
could not confirm his participation to the workshop, the organizers of RE4AI and of another
workshop–Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE)–decided to
join the two events into a one-day workshop. Therefore, during the workshop the participants
had the opportunity to listen to five presentations of research works, and to participate to a
panel on the theme of RE4AI.
We deeply thank the authors for submitting their papers to RE4AI’22. We also thank the
Program Committee members for their effort and dedication in the review of the submitted
works. And we finally thank the REFSQ’22 workshop chairs, PC chairs and the organizing
committee for their trust and support.
2. Program Committee
• Khlood Ahmad, Deakin University, Australia
• Amel Bennaceur, The Open University, United Kingdom
• Dan Berry,University of Waterloo, Canada
• Paolo Busetta, Independent consultant, Italy
• Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Davide Dell’Anna, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Chiara Di Francescomarino, ICT-FBK, Italy
• Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Alessio Ferrari, ISTI-CNR, Italy
• Giancarlo Guizzardi, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
• Hans-Martin Heyn, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Blagovesta Kostova, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel
• Seok-Won Lee, Ajou University, Republic of Korea
• Emmanuel Letier, University College London, UK
• John Mylopoulos, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Matthieu Vergne, Meritis PACA, France