Workshop on Assured Autonomous Systems 2020
2020
On behalf of the IEEE Workshop on Assured Autonomous Systems (WAAS) program committee, we are pleased to present to you the proceedings of our inaugural workshop. WAAS is focused on bringing together researchers and practitioners from all aspects of AI safety, security, and privacy in autonomous systems. The goal of the workshop is to discuss research on the gap that exists between theory-heavy autonomous systems and algorithms, and the privacy, security, and safety of their real-world implementations. The program committee received 25 submissions. We followed a signal blind peer review process where each paper was reviewed by 3 or 4 members of the program committee. The workshop organizers agreed on 15 submissions that covered the detection of, response to, and recovery from AI safety, security, and privacy violations in autonomous systems. In addition to the selected papers, our workshop features a keynote speech given by Dr. Sandeep Neema, who is the Program Manager for DARPA’s Assured Autonomy Program.