We were delighted to have out 4^th international ESSENCE Workshop (29^th August, 2016) on Diversity-Aware Artificial Intelligence accepted to the ECAI 2016 conference in The Hague, The Netherlands. Being part of such a prestigious and international conference was an amazing opportunity to showcase our work and network with the Artificial Intelligence community.

The workshop explored diversity as a phenomenon that both poses a challenge for AI in terms of dealing with and managing diversity in an intelligent system (or ecosystem of intelligent human and/or artificial agents) and presents an opportunity in terms of leveraging diversity (for example through processes like crowdsourcing and collaborative knowledge production) to achieve human-like (and human-friendly) capabilities in more open-ended, incrementally evolving, and interactive AI systems.

Recent publications:

• Paula Chocron and Marco Shorlemmer, "Attuning Ontology Alignments to Semantically Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Interactions"  22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2016.
• Paula Chocron and Marco Shorlemmer, " Ontology Alignment Evaluation in the Context of Multi-Agent Interactions" Eleventh International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM), 2016 (accepted, to appear).
• Paolo Pareti, "Distributed Linked Data as a Framework for Human-Machine Collaboration". Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD). (2016)

Upcoming talks:

• Paula Chocrón, "Semantic Alignment for Agent Interactions: making communication meaningful in open environments", SWeL Seminar, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh UK (12/09/16)