Call For Papers

The IEEE Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing (AITest 2020)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are widely used in computer applications to perform tasks such as monitoring, forecasting, recommending, prediction, and statistical reporting. They are deployed in a variety of systems including driverless vehicles, robot controlled warehouses, financial forecasting applications, and security enforcement and are increasingly integrated with cloud/fog/edge computing, big data analytics, robotics, Internet-of-Things, mobile computing, smart cities, smart homes, intelligent healthcare, etc. In spite of this dramatic progress, the quality assurance of existing AI application development processes is still far from satisfactory and the demand for being able to show demonstrable levels of confidence in such systems is growing. Software testing is a fundamental, effective and recognized quality assurance method which has shown its cost-effectiveness to ensure the reliability of many complex software systems. However, the adaptation of software testing to the peculiarities of AI applications remains largely unexplored and needs extensive research to be performed. On the other hand, the availability of AI technologies provides an exciting opportunity to improve existing software testing processes, and recent years have shown that machine learning, data mining, knowledge representation, constraint optimization, planning, scheduling, multi-agent systems, etc. have real potential to positively impact on software testing. Recent years have seen a rapid growth of interests in testing AI applications as well as application of AI techniques to software testing. This conference provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange novel research results, to articulate the problems and challenges from practices, to deepen our understanding of the subject area with new theories, methodologies, techniques, processes models, etc., and to improve the practices with new tools and resources.

Topics of Interest

The conference invites papers of original research on AI testing and reports of the best practices in the industry as well as the challenges in practice and research. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Testing AI applications
  • Methodologies for testing, verification and validation of AI applications
    • Process models for testing AI applications and quality assurance activities and procedures
    • Quality models of AI applications and quality attributes of AI applications, such as correctness, reliability, safety, security, accuracy, precision, comprehensibility, explainability, etc
    • Whole lifecycle of AI applications, including analysis, design, development, deployment, operation and evolution
  • Techniques for testing AI applications
    • Test case design, test data generation, test prioritization, test reduction, etc
    • Metrics and measurements of the adequacy of testing AI applications
    • Test oracle for checking the correctness of AI application on test cases
  • Tools and environment for automated and semi-automated software testing AI applications for various testing activities and management of testing resources
  • Specific concerns of software testing with various specific types of AI technologies and AI applications
  • Applications of AI techniques to software testing
  • Machine learning applications to software testing, such as test case generation, test effectiveness prediction and optimization, test adequacy improvement, test cost reduction, etc
  • Constraint Programming for test case generation and test suite reduction
  • Constraint Scheduling and Optimization for test case prioritization and test execution scheduling
  • Multi-agent systems for testing and test services
  • Crowdsourcing and swarm intelligence in software testing
  • Genetic algorithms, search-based techniques and heuristics to optimization of testing
  • Knowledge-based and expert systems for software testing
  • Data quality checking for AI applications
  • Quality assurance for unstructured training data
  • Automatic data validation tools
  • Large-scale unstructured data quality certification

Format

Regular Papers (8 pages) and Short Papers (2 pages)

We welcome submissions of both regular research papers (limited to 8 pages), that describe original and significant work or report on case studies and empirical research, and short papers (limited to 2 pages) that describe late-breaking research results or work in progress with timely and innovative ideas.
All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format using the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings format (two columns, single-spaced, 10pt font). Papers must not be accepted for publication, or be under submission to another conference or journal. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee, using a single-blind reviewing procedure. At least one author of the accepted paper must register for the conference and confirm that she/he will present the paper in person.