Trusted AI literature to date has focused on the trust needs of users who knowingly interact with discrete AIs. There is one key exception. Conspicuously absent from the literature is a rigorous treatment of public trust in AI. ACM FAccT 2021 offers authors the judiciously. 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. Meta-Learned Metrics over Multi-Evolution Temporal Graphs. If you have thoughts and suggetions about this years conference, please fill out this form or be in touch by emailing the ACM FAccT 2021 General Co-chairs William Isaac, Madeleine Clare Elish, and Richard Zemel at general-chairs@facctconference.org. 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. while minimizing harm to the individual), risk mitigation, and post-hoc Please provide a Confidence Score between 1 and 5 for each submission, which concerns the level of confidence you have in your own expertise regarding the topic of the submission. 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. Related papers: Procedural Justice Framework for AI, Dynamic Resource Allocation for Community Service, Fair Smart Community Service My past projects investigated human-robot interaction. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). They should be respected and taken into account, but their comments should not be confused with the peer review. ethical considerations. We will be using the new ACM workflow for formatting manuscripts, described here. While it allows sellers to increase their profits, it also raises several concerns in terms of fairness. respond to initial reviews with a rebuttal. statistics, the humanities, and law. 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. If using LaTeX, please use the template given in sample-manuscript.tex when downloading the latest version of the ACM LaTeX documents. Ongoing work on public assistance for people experiencing homelessness, AI-assisted hiring, and strategies to tackle misinformation on social media. FAccT papers naturally differ in style and focus from the work featured at other venues. from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. all submissions will have the same page length requirements and will be The discussion phase is especially important for borderline submissions and submissions where the reviewers assessments differ; most submissions fall into one or other of these categories, so please take this phase seriously. 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. For questions regarding registration, contact acm.facct2022@gmail.com. Contrastive Learning with Complex Heterogeneity. formal proceedings. ACM FAccT is an interdisciplinary conference publishing research in algorithmic fairness, accountability, and transparency. Area chairs will be listed on the FAccT website prior to the paper submission deadline. The Overall Score for each submission should reflect your assessment of the submissions contributions. journal: In such cases, we require authors to select the non-archival Chairs to better anticipate the submission load and to make necessary decisions are made. not be told whether submissions under review are archival or not, to We welcome submissions in the following areas: FAccT is an ACM conference about computing, dedicated to rigorous 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. Always be constructive and help the authors understand your viewpoint, without being dismissive. Take your job seriously and be fair. placed at risk, avoiding deceptive practices when not essential, A natural remedy is to remove such features from the model. The online conferenceincluding both live-streamed elements of the in-person conference, and online-only contentwill also begin on June 21, with content and discussion available for two weeks from that date, and a library of content available subsequently. FAccT '23: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency June 27 - 30, 2023 Chicago , IL , USA Peer-reviewing and cross-disciplinary reviewing should be centered around the following objectives. . Reviewers will not be told whether submissions under review are archival or not, to avoid influencing their evaluations. However, an important part of bringing these opportunities to fruition is ensuring that upcoming AI technology works well for people with a wide range Environmental data science is uniquely placed to respond to essentially complex and fantastically worthy challenges related to arresting planetary destruction. 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For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should be made in the third-person. 2nd FATREC Workshop: Responsible Recommendation. . statistics, law, social sciences, the humanities, and education. ACM FAccT solicits work from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, statistics, law, social sciences, the humanities, and policy, and multidisciplinary scholarships on fairness, accountability and transparency in computational systems (broadly construed). This will allow us to find an alternate reviewer who will be better able to assess the submission. submissions violate our dual submission policy and will be removed from You will be asked to provide a Overall Score between 1 and 7 for each submission. The ACM Digital Library is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. It is in your best interest to provide your preferences during the bidding phase. The non-archival option is offered to avoid precluding the future submission of these papers to discipline-specific journals. the review process to rapidly respond to queries from the PC regarding 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. the ethics of the work in a submission, the PC will consider the ethical ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) A computer science conference with a cross-disciplinary focus that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (e.g. He was elected an ACM Fellow in 2019. conference, ACM FAccT requires a broad as well as deep set of expertise One should be 3-4 minutes long. This means that you provide your preferences (a.o. 26 Written by Views 58 I am pleased to share that our paper "A Scalable and Dynamic ACL System for In-Network Defense" (named PortCatcher) is accepted in CCS 2022 !. previous years.) Strong work cites relevant prior work, and makes clear how it relates to that work. Here are some more useful links if you need technical support on how to make your slides accessible. Authors will be able to make changes to their titles and abstracts up until the full paper submission deadline, however the preliminary title and abstract should be representative of the submitted work. He. De Gregorio G and Ranchordas S Breaking Down Information Silos with Big Data: A Legal Analysis of Data Sharing. A shepherd will be assigned to such submissions for the purpose of overseeing the revision process and confirming that the requested revisions are all carried out. 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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. beneficence (maximizing the benefits to an individual or to society To receive news about ACM FAccT, follow @facctconference on You should not let the authors identities influence your decision in any way. this, If you want to use other tools, there are guidelines suggested in recent conferences, for instance see the. diverse as those represented among FAccT authors past and present. The research community is young but growing fast. social justice in relation to design of computational systems? the concerns of ACM FAccT? Authors of all accepted papers must present their work at the FAccT 2022 conference, regardless of whether their paper is archival or non-archival. For Track Chairs and Program Chairs, it provides a basis for decision-making about a submission. Although these systems may bring myriad benefits, they also contain inherent risks, such as codifying and entrenching biases; reducing accountability, and hindering due process; they also increase the information asymmetry between individuals whose data feed into these systems and big players capable of inferring potentially relevant information. As a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed compare the submission to other submissions. ACM FAccT 2022 offers authors the choice of archival and non-archival paper submissions: in length. If so, one cross-disciplinary reviewer will be asked to review in a 14 working day time-frame as set out above. rejected without review. deleted. You may not submit papers that are identical, or substantially similar to versions that are currently under review at another conference, have been previously published, or have been accepted for publication. 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Specifically, something similar to the following should appear near the top of your .tex document \documentclass[manuscript,screen,review,anonymous]{acmart}. FAccT: Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. In keeping with our roots in computing, we appreciate both systems Options and templates are available for both Word and LaTeX users. present their work at the FAccT 2021 conference, regardless of whether This section can be used to provide additional Upon acceptance, the titles, authorship, and abstracts of accepted papers will be released prior to the conference. choose the archival or non-archival option. If you have a question about the reviewing system, your primary point of contact should be the PC Chairs. Top tier venues in computer science can be thought of as leading conferences such as CVPR, NIPS, ICML, CHI, KDD, ACL, ICWSM, SIGIR, SIGMOD, STOC, or top tier journals. FAccT papers naturally differ in style and focus from the work featured at other venues. Stability against changes in data distribution is an important mandate for responsible deployment of models. Non-archival papers will only appear as abstracts in the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2022 (ACM FAccT 2023) Call For Papers. Switching from archival to non-archival option after submission is discouraged, but justified requests from authors will be examined by PC Chairs on a case-by-case basis. FAccT is an ACM conference and as such, we will review papers in alignment with the We welcome contributions that consider dimensions beyond individual decisions, including equity and justice in systems, policy, and human rights. 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Our assessments, publications and research spread knowledge, spark enquiry and aid understanding around the world. reconsider their reviews and scores in light of rebuttals before final May 8-13, 2021 Yokohama, Japan May 8-13, 2021 Online Virtual Conference . relevant domains inform a broad perspective on how to frame and advance Papers may also be formatted simply in two-column previously appeared in non-archival venues such as workshops without 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. In this setting the decision-maker's fairness policy governs the number of With rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI), popularity of generative art has grown substantially. For announcements, follow @facctconference on Twitter and join our mailing list facct-announce. A long line of work has therefore sought to counteract strategic behavior by designing more We study a two-stage model, in which students are 1) admitted to college on the basis of an entrance exam which is a noisy signal about their qualifications (type), and then 2) those students who were admitted to college can be hired by an employer as a We identify and explore differential access to population-level signaling (also known as information design) as a source of unequal access to opportunity. It is calculated by dividing the number of accepted students by the number of total applicants. Further information on the expected format and Anomaly detection aims to find instances that are considered unusual and is a fundamental problem of data science. issues are welcome to contact the PC. FAccT '21: 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency Virtual Event Canada March 3 - 10, 2021 ISBN: 978-1-4503-8309-7 Published: 01 March 2021 Sponsors: ACM Recommend ACM DL ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER? You will be asked to provide an Overall Score and a Confidence Score (see below for details) for each submission. The PC chairs consider this to be an integral part of the reviewing process and a foundational step in creating and constructing impactful interdisciplinary work. [1] Your assessment should be based on the quality of the contribution, not its style. Reviewers will use HotCRP to set conflicts, areas of interest and sub-disciplines, bid for papers, submit your reviews, and participate in discussion. 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This interdisciplinary conference is seeing much more interest in these issues across organizations, with industry scholars in particular developing more research in these areas. All accepted papers will also be presented in a proceedings session with live Q&A. If you accidentally find out the identities of the authors, please do not divulge the identities to anyone, but do tell your Track Chair that this has happened and make a note of this in the Confidential Comments to Track Chairs and PC Chairs text field. https://facctconference.org/ GDPR 2016. ACM FAccT maintains confidentiality of submitted material. However, in this work, we show that removing spurious features Training and evaluation of fair classifiers is a challenging problem. It is clear how this work differs from previous contributions. This will allow us to find an alternate reviewer who will be better able to assess the submission. Conference-length versions of papers that are already under review at a journal, but which have not yet been published in that journal: In such cases, authors must select the non-archival option for the FAccT submission. 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. 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. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. June 12-15, 2023 in Chicago, USA. (IRB) may be necessary in some cases, but by itself may not be Once the peer-reviews are in, the Track Chair decides on whether or not the paper will receive a cross-disciplinary review based on its initial peer review score. TBA) or none at all at the abstract submission deadline may be Archival papers practices, and policies. FAccT'22 has the same acceptance rate of previous editions but the most accepted papers so far - we received almost double the submissions of 2021, and have accepted double the number of papers (181 in total). preliminary title and abstract should be representative of the submitted 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). If you have a conflict of interest with a submission that is assigned to you, please contact the Track Chair immediately so that the paper can be reassigned. 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Opportunities such as higher education can promote intergenerational mobility, leading individuals to achieve levels of socioeconomic status above that of their parents. register for, (virtually) attend, and present the work at the conference The ACM Conference for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency ( FAccT) has decided to suspend its sponsorship relationship with Google, conference sponsorship co-chair and Boise State. Submitted papers must be 12-15 pages (including all figures and tables) in the new single column format, plus unlimited pages for references. As of May 9, about 65% of registrations include in-person attendance. towards more ethical computing scholarship in future years. We will expand on this below. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference vised lexical semantic change detection. If you need to cite existing work to justify one of your comments, please be as precise as possible and give a complete citation. This typically corresponds to about 8,000 words for the main 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). There has been recent interest by payers, health care systems, and researchers in the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence models that predict an individual's probability of developing opioid use disorder. computing in particular. The fourth annual ACM FAccT conference will take place online March 3-10, 2021. This process will enable the Program Chairs to better anticipate the submission load and to make necessary adjustments to the program committee. 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.