The 1st World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI-2023) was held from Wednesday, 26th to Friday, 28th of July 2023. On the second day of the conference, we had the pleasure of hosting the Late Breaking work, Demos and the Doctoral Consortium tracks. The Late-Breaking work track provided a unique opportunity to share valuable ideas, elicit helpful feedback on early-stage work, and foster discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-breaking results are research-in-progress that contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing the theory and practice of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). In addition, it included recently started research projects or syntheses. Overall, 25 late-breaking manuscripts were accepted and presented via posters.
The xAI-2023 organisation1 thanks Prof. Luis Paulo Reis from the University of Porto and Prof. Sarah Jane Delany from the Technological University Dublin, who acted as Doctoral Consortium chairs. A special thanks goes to Prof. Grégoire Montavon and Prof. Paulo Giudici, who addressed the PhD scholars with tutorials on how to build a research hypothesis, the scientific method, how to set research objectives and how to define the assumptions, scope, limitations and delimitation of a doctoral project. Gratitude goes to committee members of the Late-breaking Work, Demos and Doctoral Consortium tracks that helped review submissions to these three tracks under a single-blind peer-review process: • Gonzalez Diaz Rocio, University of Seville • Hooker Giles, UC Berkeley • Mirrales-Pechuán Luis, Technological University Dublin • Ikram Chraibi Kaadoud, IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire • Rizzo Lucas, Applied Intelligence Research Center • Mongelli Maurizio, Italian National Research Council • Montavon Grégoire,Free University of Berlin • Weiru Liu, University of Bristol • Courtney Jane, Technological University Dublin • Lina Fahed, IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire • Casalicchio Giuseppe, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München • Criscuolo Sabatina, University of Naples Federico II • Djenouri Youcef, University South Eastern Norway • Giot Romain, University of Bordeaux • García-Cuesta, Esteban University of Madrid • Lenca Philippe, IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire