Value Engineering in AI (VALE Track)
Third International Workshop on Value Engineering in AI (VALE 2025), affiliated with the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025)
25–30 October 2025, Bologna, Italy
Third International Workshop on Value Engineering in AI (VALE 2025), affiliated with the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025)
25–30 October 2025, Bologna, Italy
AI's growing influence in daily life has made the need for ethical, trustworthy systems a global priority. One of the most critical challenges facing society today is ensuring that AI systems, and the interactions they facilitate among humans and other agents, are aligned with human values. Aligning with human values is one of the requirements for achieving true trustworthiness. The value engineering challenge is about developing AI that identifies and understands human values, reasons about those values, and is capable of explaining behaviour in terms of those values. We argue that just as values guide our own morality, values can guide the morality of software agents and systems, bringing machine morality closer to reality. The result would be value-aware systems that take value-aligned decisions, interpret human behaviour in terms of values and enrich human reasoning by enhancing the human's value-awareness.
Today there is a growing wealth of work in the field of AI on accounting for human values and working towards value-aligned behaviour. The VALE workshop @ ECAI 2025 intends to bring in research on value engineering together and foster in-depth discussions on the topic.
We note that the VALE 2025 workshop is the third edition of the successful VALE series held at ECAI 2023 and 2024.
The relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
Value representation
Value learning
Value agreements
Value conflicts
Value-driven argumentation and negotiation
Value-driven decision making
Value-driven system design
Value-alignment
Value-driven explainability
Legal and ethical questions in value and norm enforcement
Paper submission deadline: 30 June 2025
Notification of acceptance: 31 July 2025
VALE workshop: 25–30 October 2024 (to be confirmed)
VALE 2025 is supported by the following projects:
The EU funded VALAWAI project, with Grant no. 101070930
The Spanish funded VAE project, with Grant no. TED2021-131295B-C31 /C32 / C33