[hpc-announce] CFP: Safe, Secure and Robust AI Track - The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2025)

[Antonio Pecchia]

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Safe, Secure and Robust AI (S2RAI) Track

The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2025)
Catania, Sicily, Italy
31st March - 4th April, 2025

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S2RAI calls for contributions that aim to make a step towards safe,
secure and robust operations of ML-AI components.

S2RAI covers a wide range of ML-AI topics including, but not limited to:

- the definition of architectural patterns (e.g., safety monitors
   or safety wrappers), software mechanisms, model-based analyses, and
   metrics aiming at a safe operation of ML algorithms;

- the proposal or experimental evaluation of defenses against 
adversarial
   attacks or any potential threat to ML algorithms themselves;

- techniques to make ML algorithms robust against unknown, 
out-of-distribution
   data, and their evaluation in simulated environments or in the wild;

- methods for explainable AI, their evaluation, comparison and 
applicability
   to critical systems;

- frameworks or mechanisms to precisely compute the confidence in the
   prediction of ML algorithms, and use them to build a safe, secure or
   robust ML-based component;

- methodologies or data-driven processes that aim at guiding the
   integration of ML algorithms in critical systems such that safety and
   security requirements of the encompassing systems can be guaranteed.


*** Submission Guidelines ***

SAC-S2RAI accepts to types of submissions: regular papers and SRC
abstracts. The review process is double-blind: please prepare your paper
accordingly.

You can download the official Author Kit from:

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- Regular papers: limited to 8 pages with the option
   for up to 2 additional pages;

- Student Research Track (SRC) abstracts: limited to
   2 pages, no additional pages.

Note that those page limits include references.

Submission Links!

- Regular papers: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission.php__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!akXv3EONNQiYBvT324QaRio7YYWFkpVNsliDDWjPEUL7JhQrXn5-QN7CIII9NDGq8ai6x0D7NxjkP3TsE3TyKtYYhcVkQG4OTw$ 

- SRC papers: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission_src.php__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!akXv3EONNQiYBvT324QaRio7YYWFkpVNsliDDWjPEUL7JhQrXn5-QN7CIII9NDGq8ai6x0D7NxjkP3TsE3TyKtYYhcXkQCPsGQ$ 


*** Important Dates ***

- September 20, 2024: Submission of regular papers and SRC research 
abstracts
- October 30, 2024:   Notification of paper/SRC acceptance/rejection
- November 29, 2024:  Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC
- December 6, 2024:   Author registration due date
- March 31 - April 4, 2025: Conference in Catania, Sicily, Italy


*** S2RAI Organizers (alphabetical order) ***

- Jeremie Guiochet (LAAS CNRS, University of Toulouse, France)
- Antonio Pecchia (University of Sannio, Italy)
- Maura Pintor (University of Cagliari, Italy)
- Tommaso Zoppi (University of Trento, Italy)

Website:

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Should you have any questions, please send an mail to
tommaso<dot>zoppi<at>unifi<dot>it