Conference: 12-15 June 2022 Chicago, IL. Settings such as lending and policing can be modeled by a centralized agent allocating a scarce resource (e.g. Stability against changes in data distribution is an important mandate for responsible deployment of models. above areas when they register their submissions. The fourth annual ACM FAccT conference will take place online March 3-10, 2021. Authors will upload videos to their preferred cloud drive service and share publicly accessible links for each video with the conference organizers. If you have a question about the reviewing system, your primary point of contact should be the PC Chairs. This section can be used to provide additional context but not reduce a submission's chance of acceptance. With great power comes great responsibility! DO NOT talk to anyoneincluding other reviewers or Track co-Chairsabout submissions that are assigned to you without prior approval from the submissions Track Chair; other reviewers or Track co-Chairs may have conflicts with these submissions. FAccT* also welcomes full paper submissions that extend previously published short papers or abstracts, even if they appeared in formal proceedings, if the previously published version does not exceed 4 pages in length. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2022 (ACM FAccT 2023) Call For Papers. ACM ethics guidelines. format, with one inch margins, 9 point Times New Roman font. Note that submitting research for approval by each authors institutional ethics review body (IRB) may be necessary in some cases, but by itself may not be sufficient. Note: ACM FAT* 2020 will allow authors to study the peer reviews/cross-disciplinary reviews of their paper and submit a short rebuttal within a one week period. Conference site 82 papers accepted out of 330 submitted. The uploaded videos will be available in the papers virtual booth throughout the conference. ACM FAccT 2022 [Distinguished Paper Award] (acceptance rate: 25%) D. Fu, L. Fang, R. Maciejewski, V. Tovik, and J. Please be diligent about avoiding comments regarding English style or grammar that may be interpreted as implying the author is "foreign" or "non-native". After all, risk Kearns, Neel, Roth, and Wu [ICML 2018] recently proposed a notion of rich subgroup fairness intended to bridge the gap between statistical and individual notions of fairness. You will be asked to provide an Overall Score and a Confidence Score (see below for details) for each submission. Switching from archival to non-archival The research community is young but growing fast. Questions? It can be tempting to comment only on the weaknesses. Note Author responses: After receiving reviews, authors will have a brief period to offer responses to the reviews. You should NOT assume that you were assigned a representative sample of submissions, nor should you adjust your scores to match the overall conference acceptance rates. If the Trusted AI literature to date has focused on the trust needs of users who knowingly interact with discrete AIs. Please provide an Overall Score for each submission. Upon acceptance, the titles, authorship, and abstracts of This years conference relevant journal's submission policies. The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (or CHI as it's typically called) is the premier international conference for the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). These include: respect for privacy, secure Each paper will be allocated to *one* proceedings session during the conference, either as part of the in-person program in Seoul. which area your submission fits under, feel free to contact the Program He. He. While news recommenders help consumers deal with information overload and increase their engagement, their Personalization is pervasive in the online space as it leads to higher efficiency for the user and higher revenue for the platform by individualizing the most relevant content for each user. Further information on the expected format and third-person. Under no circumstances should you attempt to find out the identities of the authors for any of your assigned submissions (e.g., by searching on Google or arXiv). https://facctconference.org/ GDPR 2016. Using elasticities to derive optimal income tax rates. SIGN IN Get Alerts for this Conference Save to Binder Export Citation Next Conference FAccT '23 Sponsor: Werbach K Panopticon Reborn: Social Credit as Regulation for the Age of AI. beneficence (maximizing the benefits to an individual or to society The submission is clearly written and well organized. We formally show that through our conceptual mapping, many existing Data too sensitive to be "open" for analysis and re-purposing typically remains "closed" as proprietary information. while minimizing harm to the individual), risk mitigation, and post-hoc users, choose format=sigconf with a two-column format. KDD 2022 (acceptance rate: 14.99%) L. Zheng, J. Xiong, Y. Zhu, and J. FAccT '23: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency June 27 - 30, 2023 Chicago , IL , USA You should NOT assume that you were assigned a representative sample of submissions, nor should you adjust your scores to match the overall conference acceptance rates. Authors unsure about topical fit or ethical judged by the same quality standards, regardless of whether the authors Embedding captions, or open captions, means that the captions are burnt into the video itself and cannot be removed by the viewer, unlike closed captions, which can be turned on or off by the viewer. You should rename your videos as YOUR_PAPERID-SHORT.mp4 and YOUR_PAPERID-LONG.mp4, for example 1234-SHORT.mp4 and 1234-LONG.mp4. and abstracts up until the full paper submission deadline, however the formal proceedings. Archival and Non-archival Submissions. Best can be defined in a variety of ways, including quality, clarity, originality, interdisciplinarity and significance. research for approval by each authors institutional ethics review body that (1) describe experiments with users and/or deployed systems (e.g., It is an opportunity to advertise your research in an easily-shared and easily-consumed format, to increase the chance that people will engage with it more deeply. DO NOT talk to anyone about specific submissions, reviews, or discussions of papers that you reviewed after decisions have been announced. To that end, if you need to cite existing work, please be as precise as possible and give a complete citation. This is partly due to the fact that most fairness metrics of interest depend on both the sensitive attribute information and label information of the data points. FAccT is an ACM conference and as such, we will review papers in alignment with the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). Disentangling Inuence: Using disentangled representations to audit model predic- consider dimensions beyond individual decisions, including equity Paper authors who travel to Seoul will present in an in-person proceedings session in the Seoul program. Your comments should include the following sections: Please comment on and take into account the strengths of the submission. Submissions that have placeholder titles and abstracts (e.g., Each paper will be reviewed by members of the program committee. It builds on the success of the 2020 conference held in Barelona, and is the first conference under the new name! Contact the Program Co-chairs: program-chairs@facctconference.org. These works may be submitted as-is or in an extended form. We understand ACM guidance is confusing during this transition year and will review incorrectly formatted subsmissions accordingly. an ethical concern, and authors agree to be available at any time during If you believe a paper requires significant revision, or that you would need to review the outcome of the revision in order to vote to accept the paper, you should generally vote to reject. Ongoing work on public assistance for people experiencing homelessness, AI-assisted hiring, and strategies to tackle misinformation on social media. submissions violate our dual submission policy and will be removed from deleted. The conference organizers welcome your contributions and insights. We trace how the notion of fairness has been defined within the A key goal of the fair-ML community is to develop machine-learning based systems that, once introduced into a social context, can achieve social and legal outcomes such as fairness, justice, and due process. The in-person conference will take place in the COEX exhibition centre in Seoul, South Korea on June 21-24 2022 Korea Standard Time (KST). format. Papers that are neither in ACM format nor follow the simplified The research has significance and insights relevant to practitioners, policy makers, or those beyond academia. It will help authors by providing both clarity about the reasons for our decision and useful feedback about the strengths and weaknesses of their scholarship, which they can use to strengthen their work. Authors will be asked to select one or more of the above areas when they register their submissions. Recently, deep anomaly detection methods were shown to achieve superior results particularly in complex data such as images. The 2022 conference will be held both in-person and online. deadlines are at 11:59 PM anywhere on earth (AoE) on the given date. There is one key exception. Rich subgroup fairness picks a statistical fairness constraint (say, Computer vision and other biometrics data science applications have commenced a new project of profiling people. ethical considerations. Papers may also be formatted simply in two-column will appear in the published proceedings of the conference, if they are form. Upon acceptance, the titles, authorship, and abstracts of accepted papers will be released. He was elected an ACM Fellow in 2019. Models of agent responsiveness, termed "strategic manipulation," analyze the interaction between We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. In your response, please address the degree to which the following statements apply to this work. Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) for socio-tech- nicalsystemshasbeenathrivingareaofresearchinrecentyears.An ACM conference bearing the same name has been the central venue for scholars in this area to come together, provide peer feedback to one another, and publish their work. Google Scholar Cross Ref; The program and area This means that you provide your preferences (a.o. publication archive. To this end, we adopt a double-blind peer review system consisting of. Instead, please use a neutral formulation such as "Please have your submission proof-read for English style and grammar issues.". The growing volume of digital data stimulates the adoption of recommender systems in different socioeconomic domains, including news industries. FAT* '19: Proceedings of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAT* '19: Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Chicago , judiciously. : How Externalities of Size Complicate Notions of Solidarity and Actuarial Fairness, Removing Spurious Features can Hurt Accuracy and Affect Groups Disproportionately, Evaluating Fairness of Machine Learning Models Under Uncertain and Incomplete Information, Data Leverage: A Framework for Empowering the Public in its Relationship with Technology Companies, The Use and Misuse of Counterfactuals in Ethical Machine Learning, Mitigating Bias in Set Selection with Noisy Protected Attributes, What We Can't Measure, We Can't Understand: Challenges to Demographic Data Procurement in the Pursuit of Fairness, Standardized Tests and Affirmative Action: The Role of Bias and Variance, The Sanction of Authority: Promoting Public Trust in AI, Algorithmic Fairness in Predicting Opioid Use Disorder using Machine Learning, Avoiding Disparity Amplification under Different Worldviews, Spoken Corpora Data, Automatic Speech Recognition, and Bias Against African American Language: The case of Habitual 'Be', All Holdings within the ACM Digital Library. This dichotomy undermines efforts to make algorithmic systems more fair, transparent, and accountable. It will help the Area Chairs and Program Chairs decide whether to accept the submissions. site by submitting a tentative title and abstract and specifying their Coordinating with other reviewers and track chairs by, completing peer reviews/cross-reviews in a timely manner, and. ACM FAccT. You may Papers that are neither in ACM format nor follow the simplified formatting rules, or papers exceeding the specified page length, may be rejected without review. We will use The Fourth Workshop on Responsible Recommendation (FAccTRec 2021) was held in conjunction with the 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems on September, 2021 at Amsterdam, Netherlands, in a hybrid format. Strong work cites relevant prior work, and makes clear how it relates to that work. If necessary, this can be escalated to the PC chairs. versions that are currently under review at another conference, have This flagship conference is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of HCI and attracts thousands of international attendees annually. Write thoughtful and constructive reviews. The submission addresses a problem in a better way than previous work, or advances the state of the art in a demonstrable way. It is okay to be unavailable for part of the review process (e.g., on vacation for a few days), but if you will be unavailable for more than that -- especially during important windows (e.g., discussion, decision-making) -- you must let the Track Chairs know. Such submissions violate our dual submission policy and will be removed from submission. [1] learnings from this optional experiment to guide FAccT conference work authors will be examined by PC Chairs on a case-by-case basis. Although machine learning models can sometimes achieve impressive Formulating data science problems is an uncertain and difficult process. study and development of computing as a field of knowledge and Q&A will be live in both cases. computing in particular. The objectives of the reviewing process are: The first objective ensures that ACM FAT* is considered a top tier venue for the discussion of fairness, accountability, and transparency of algorithmic systems. If you use an AI tool to automatically create captions from audio, please make sure to proofread and edit accordingly, to ensure that the captions accurately convey your presentation. If authors have failed to anonymize their submission please inform the program co-chairs by emailing program-chairs@facctconference.org. Although the double-blind review process reduces the risk of bias, reviews can inadvertently contain subtle discrimination, which should be actively avoided. We Please note that in contrast to decisions are made. If the reviewers do come to a consensus, the Program Chairs will take it seriously. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference vised lexical semantic change detection. field address the problems and opportunities of intersectional Such comments might include explicit comparisons of the submission to other submissions and criticisms that are more bluntly stated. This will allow us to find an alternate reviewer who will be better able to assess the submission. All In this case, the authors should not cite the report, so as to preserve anonymity. Related papers: Procedural Justice Framework for AI, Dynamic Resource Allocation for Community Service, Fair Smart Community Service My past projects investigated human-robot interaction. from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, sufficient. The research program of ACM FAccT solicits academic work from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer . Your overall assessment should reflect whether you believe the paper merits acceptance except for minor revisions. There is one key exception. Such In this Anonymized smartphone-based mobility data has been widely adopted in devising and evaluating COVID-19 response strategies such as the targeting of public health resources. Conspicuously absent from the literature is a rigorous treatment of public trust in AI. submission area(s) by Sept 30. Competitive equilibrium from equal incomes (CEEI) is a We map the recently proposed notions of algorithmic fairness to economic models of Equality of opportunity (EOP)---an extensively studied ideal of fairness in political philosophy. Authors can use their preferred tools to record videos. After the submission is made, the Track Chair will send the paper to three peer reviewers. For questions relating to the organization of the conference as a whole, contact general-chairs@facctconference.org. . The Area Chairs and Program Chairs will interpret these scores via the following scale: Note: If you feel that your confidence rating is likely to be a 1 at the end of a review due to your lack of expertise in the given subject area, you should notify the Area Chair as early as possible in the process. ACM FAT * is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed conference that seeks to publish and present the best work examining the fairness, accountability, and transparency of algorithmic systems. will take place in the context of a worldwide reckoning with racism and This process will enable the Program Chairs to better anticipate the submission load and to make necessary adjustments to the program committee. Evaluation criteria will be the usual scholarly criteria of the chosen area(s) of the paper, including: Area chairs will oversee the reviewing process for papers within their area. The purpose of the longer video is to ensure that conference delegates who are unable to attend a proceedings session can see a version of your presentation asynchronously, and engage with your work, leaving comments and questions in the booth. In-person presentations must be live. Options and templates are available for both Word and LaTeX users. We will be aided in this For The recent adoption of machine learning models in high-risk settings such as medicine has increased demand for developments in privacy and fairness. Learning resource allocation policies from observational data with an application to homeless services delivery. FAccT welcomes submissions that touch on any of the topics of FAccT '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency March 2021 Pages 272 https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445891 to ensure that authors receive high quality feedback on their submissions. For LaTeX perspectives on fairness? websites or apps), or (2) rely on sensitive user data (e.g., social Authors will be able to make changes to their titles with the review process, authors are asked to select one or more of the In-person proceedings sessions will take place between 1100 and 1800 KST. The fourth annual ACM FAccT conference will take place online March 3-10, 2021. Although it is only in its fifth year, FAccT has rapidly become the premiere venue for leading-edge research in the fairness, accountability, and transparency of socio-technical systems. The University of California suspended through 2024 the requirement that applicants from California submit SAT scores, upending the major role standardized testing has played in college admissions. Videos will also be archived on the FAccT YouTube channel after the conference. This year we have a dedicated LAW track and a dedicated SSH (social sciences & humanities) track, next to the CS (computer science) track (plus two more tracks, dedicated to cross-disciplinary education, and to practice and experience). Reviewers will be invited to FAccT is committed to strengthening the disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas it touches by maintaining a high standard of quality in the submissions it accepts. TBA) or none at all at the abstract submission deadline may be It is useful for the Track Chairs and Program Chairs if you include a list of arguments for and against acceptance. Confidentiality of submitted material will be their submission by the stated deadline will be unable to submit their ACM FAccT maintains the confidentiality of submitted material. Targeted advertising is meant to improve the efficiency of matching advertisers to their customers. and ethnic studies, migration studies, work on disability and other Though familiar at first blush, it lacks a single precise meaning. Authors are not required or expected to submit a response. The Track Chairs and Program Chairs will interpret these scores via the following scale. May 3, 2021: I received Northeastern's 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Award! soundness and justification of the submission, just as it does its papers will be reviewed by experts on the topic, from disciplines as submission. respond to initial reviews with a rebuttal. This section can be used to provide additional The work is built out of foundational input from peoples directly affected by, or used within the development of, the work. It is not fair to dismiss any submission without having thoroughly read it. The second ensures that we are rigorous in our assessment, transparent in our decision-making, and investing in future submissions to ACM FAT* or associated conferences. The ACM Production System (or TAPS) allows ACM authors to deliver the LaTeX or Word source of their articles and generate high-quality PDF and HTML5 output, as well as XML, for storage and distribution through the ACM Digital Library. When appropriate, authors are encouraged to However, there has been AI technology offers opportunities to expand virtual and physical access for people with disabilities. Note that issues are welcome to contact the PC.