Marina De Vos, ART-AI Director of Training & Academic Supervisor, has recently come back from Dagstuhl. She writes:
“From June 29 to July 04, myself and three international colleagues organised the Dagstuhl symposium on Policy Modeling and Reasoning in Sociotechnical Systems. This was a follow-up from the successful Shonan meeting organised in 2022 in collaboration with Japan’s National Institute of Informatics, one of our ART-AI partners.
During the week-long research retreat, 37 colleagues from around the world discussed policy extensions to semantic web, ethics in socio-technical systems, normative agentic AI and norm and value change in socio-technical systems. We started the week with a series of lightning talks and two vision talks, one from industry and one for academia, before starting the open space part of the symposium. We brainstormed the topics we wanted to engage with, broke up into smaller groups to discuss the chosen topics. At the end of each day, we had primers covering the interdisciplinary research interests of the participants: Ethics, Standardisation, Programming with Norms, The Value of Values, Logic for New Generation AI and Regulatory Supervision.
Results from the symposium will be published by Dagstuhl Publishing in Autumn 2025.
It was an excellent opportunity to meet old and new colleagues and immerse oneself for a week of thought-provoking research discussions. I cannot wait for the next one. “
