A Practical Taxonomy of TAS-related Usecase Scenarios

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T1 - A Practical Taxonomy of TAS-related Usecase Scenarios

AU - Masters, Peta

AU - Young, Victoria

AU - Chamberlain, Alan

AU - Weerawardhana, Sachini

AU - McKenna, Peter E.

AU - Lu, Yang

AU - Dowthwaite, Liz

AU - Luff, Paul

AU - Moreau, Luc

N1 - Funding Information: We thank our anonymous reviewers for helping to improve this work. Our research is supported by the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub (EP/V00784X/1). Funding Information: We conducted an online workshop attended by 18 participants, 14 joining via Microsoft Teams and 4 via a collaborative online noticeboard [1]. The participants included primary investigators or their nominees from each of six nodes of the UKRI’s TAS network (representing six aspects of trust-related research: functionality, governance and regulation, resilience, security, trust and verifa-bility); representatives from industry and from fve “responsibility” projects, similarly funded by the UKRI TAS initiative, also attended. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Owner/Author.

PY - 2023/7/11

Y1 - 2023/7/11

N2 - This paper proposes a taxonomy of experimental usecase scenarios to facilitate research into trustworthy autonomous systems (TAS). Unable to identify an open-access repository of usecases to support our research, the project team embarked on development of an online library where fellow researchers would be able to find, share and recommend usecases to other practitioners in the field. To organise the library’s content, we needed a taxonomy and, informed by a commitment to responsible research and innovation (RRI), we prioritised stakeholder involvement to shape its development. Conflict arose, however, between the project team’s objective—a rigorous taxonomy focused on surfacing genuine “benchmarks” that can be used to test a multiplicity of variables in a range of domains under differing experimental conditions—and stakeholder expectation that the library would provide details of particular studies and results. How then can we reconcile project requirements with stakeholder preferences? A practical solution has to be found.

AB - This paper proposes a taxonomy of experimental usecase scenarios to facilitate research into trustworthy autonomous systems (TAS). Unable to identify an open-access repository of usecases to support our research, the project team embarked on development of an online library where fellow researchers would be able to find, share and recommend usecases to other practitioners in the field. To organise the library’s content, we needed a taxonomy and, informed by a commitment to responsible research and innovation (RRI), we prioritised stakeholder involvement to shape its development. Conflict arose, however, between the project team’s objective—a rigorous taxonomy focused on surfacing genuine “benchmarks” that can be used to test a multiplicity of variables in a range of domains under differing experimental conditions—and stakeholder expectation that the library would provide details of particular studies and results. How then can we reconcile project requirements with stakeholder preferences? A practical solution has to be found.

KW - taxonomy

KW - trust

KW - autonomous systems

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85167993853

U2 - 10.1145/3597512.3597523

DO - 10.1145/3597512.3597523

M3 - Abstract

T2 - First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems

Y2 - 10 July 2023 through 13 July 2023

ER -