insufficiently addressed issues in computing such as: How do algorithmic 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. A huge amount of effort goes into reviews. Conspicuously absent from the literature is a rigorous treatment of public trust in AI. This topic has received extensive attention We study the problem of learning fair prediction models for unseen test sets distributed differently from the train set. Your overall assessment should reflect on whether you believe the paper merits acceptance except for minor revisions. content. ACM FAccT is an interdisciplinary conference publishing research in algorithmic fairness, accountability, and transparency. Area chairs will oversee the reviewing process. Authors unsure about topical fit or ethical issues are welcome to contact the PC. perspectives on fairness? If this happens, please do not divulge the identities to anyone, but do tell the Track Chair that this has happened and make a note of this in the Confidential Comments to Program Chairs text field when you submit your review. 2018. Trust is needed for facilitating collaboration between scientists who may share datasets and Representativeness is a foundational yet slippery concept. Using elasticities to derive optimal income tax rates. You may Switching from archival to non-archival Contact the Program Co-chairs: program-chairs@facctconference.org. He. Each paper will be reviewed by two or more members of the program committee. 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. previous years.) towards more ethical computing scholarship in future years. 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). 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. 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. Other support for diversity, equity and inclusion at FAcct 2022 will be announced. For example, if College A has 100,000 applicants and accepts 5,000 students, their acceptance rate is 5%. The conference organizers welcome your contributions and insights. Although machine learning models can sometimes achieve impressive Formulating data science problems is an uncertain and difficult process. The Overall Score for each submission should reflect your assessment of the submissions contributions. statistics, the humanities, and law. Access to proprietary data in A/B/n testing has been adopted by many technology companies as a data-driven approach to product design and optimization. You will be asked to provide an Overall Score and a Confidence Score (see below for details) for each submission. Further information on the expected format and We welcome submissions in the following areas: FAccT is an ACM conference about computing, dedicated to rigorous Conference-length (8-10 pages) versions of papers that are storage of sensitive data, voluntary and informed consent if users are This is a more robust approach which will work better with our planned back-end workflow. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. content of author rebuttals will be provided when the rebuttal period These systems filter, sort, score, recommend, personalize, and otherwise shape human experience, increasingly making or informing decisions with major impact on access to, e.g., credit, insurance, healthcare, parole, social security, and immigration. form. with the ACM ethics guidelines and what, if any, ethical challenges they 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). Email Forgot your password? paper is accepted, authors will have to reformat their paper in the ACM technical soundness. papers will be reviewed by experts on the topic, from disciplines as Related papers: Procedural Justice Framework for AI, Dynamic Resource Allocation for Community Service, Fair Smart Community Service My past projects investigated human-robot interaction. Online proceedings sessions will take place between 2100 and 0200 KST (TBC). Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. ACM You should not let the authors identities influence your decision in any way. from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, proceedings. personal and professional concern, but also a perennial focus of FAccT Thus, we seek an area and discipline-specific quality assessment for each submission. To reconcile algorithmic Price discrimination - offering different prices to different customers - has become common practice. Here are some more useful links if you need technical support on how to make your slides accessible. Many powerful computing technologies rely on implicit and explicit data contributions from the public. Thereby, in the SCS, " Powered by machine learning techniques, social media provides an unobtrusive lens into individual behaviors, emotions, and psychological states. Questions? Authors will be able to make changes to their titles Coordinating with other reviewers and track chairs by, completing peer reviews/cross-reviews in a timely manner, and. TBA) or none at all at the abstract submission deadline may be 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. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). Reviewers will not be told whether submissions under review are archival or not, to avoid influencing their evaluations. 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. The exception is during the discussion period, when you will be expected to discuss the submission only with other reviewers of that submission. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to Recently, deep anomaly detection methods were shown to achieve superior results particularly in complex data such as images. Classification models are often used to make decisions that affect humans: whether to approve a loan application, extend a job offer, or provide insurance. How should the ACM conference and as such, we will review papers in alignment with the The ACM Journal on Responsible Computing (JRC) will publish high-quality original research at the intersection of computing, ethics, information, law, policy, responsible innovation, and social responsibility from a wide range of convergent, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary perspectives. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, The results or conclusions are important for the FAccT academic field. For accessibility related concerns, contact inclusion@facctconference.org. relevant domains inform a broad perspective on how to frame and advance Authors are encouraged to reflect on these guidelines in shaping study design, analysis, and dissemination. The submission adequately informs the reader about the research. The recent adoption of machine learning models in high-risk settings such as medicine has increased demand for developments in privacy and fairness. From creating paintings to generating novel art styles, AI based generative art has showcased a variety of applications. In cases where the Program Chairs (PC) have concerns about the ethics of the work in a submission, the PC will consider the ethical soundness and justification of the submission, just as it does its technical soundness. New York, NY, February 25, 2021 - The 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (ACM FAccT) , to be held virtually from March 3-10, brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should be made in the third-person. Always be constructive and help the authors understand your viewpoint, without being dismissive or using inappropriate language. to ensure that the best content is presented at the conference, and. FAccT is an ACM conference and as such, we will review papers in alignment with the It can be tempting to only comment on the weaknesses; however, Track Chairs and Program Chairs need to understand both the strengths and the weaknesses in order to make an informed decision. Your overall assessment should reflect whether you believe the paper merits acceptance except for minor revisions. The 2022 conference will be held both in-person and online. accepted. 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. Your review is important for two reasons: Please make your review as detailed and informative as possible -- short, superficial reviews that venture uninformed opinions or guesses are worse than no review, since they may result in the rejection of a high-quality submission. deleted. authors will be examined by PC Chairs on a case-by-case basis. Twitter and join our mailing list facct-announce. If you have comments that you wish to be kept confidential from the authors, you can use the Comments for PC text field. 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. These tests are often run on their websites without explicit consent from users. 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. One Label, One Billion Faces: Usage and Consistency of Racial Categories in Computer Vision. Chairs to better anticipate the submission load and to make necessary 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. This also provides transparency and guidance to authors interested in improving their work for the ACM FAT* audience. This years conference ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). 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Each paper will be reviewed by members of the program committee. all submissions will have the same page length requirements and will be anonymous review process. while minimizing harm to the individual), risk mitigation, and post-hoc proceedings, if the previously published version does not exceed 4 pages For media inquiries, please contact press@facctconference.org; For LAW and SSH this would regard acceptance in top tier international peer reviewed journals. 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 !. formal proceedings. disclosure of audits. gender/LGBTQ studies, postcolonial studies, indigenous studies, racial Authors of all accepted papers must present their work at the FAccT 2022 conference, regardless of whether their paper is archival or non-archival. We will expand on this below. In this case, the authors should not cite the report, so as to preserve anonymity. They should be respected and taken into account, but their comments should not be confused with the peer review. Archival and Non-archival Submissions. Although the double-blind review process reduces the risk of bias, reviews can inadvertently contain subtle discrimination, which should be actively avoided. Always be constructive and help the authors understand your viewpoint, without being dismissive. When consequential decisions are informed by algorithmic input, individuals may feel compelled to alter their behavior in order to gain a system's approval. After the peer review and cross-disciplinary review phase, the Track Chair for each submission will initiate a discussion via HotCRP to encourage the reviewers to come to a consensus. 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. This booth will collect all resources (pre-recorded videos, poster, the paper itself) associated with the paper to be accessed asynchronously by all registered members of the conference, who can leave questions and comments. 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. Q&A will be live in both cases. Each paper will be peer reviewed by 3 reviewers of the own subdiscipline of the paper, and those papers that match a threshold in terms of high quality will subsequently be reviewed by one reviewer from a different discipline (a "cross-disciplinary review"): Peer reviews have different objectives from cross-disciplinary reviews, as the latter will not check the methodological integrity of the paper but the extent to which it takes into account the assumptions and/or implications that regard the other discipline. Please describe and consider the strengths of the submission. Research challenges are not limited to technological solutions regarding potential bias, but include the question of whether decisions should be outsourced to data- and code-driven computing systems. judiciously. With great power comes great responsibility! Ask yourself, Do the other reviewers' comments make sense?" We will be using the new ACM workflow for formatting manuscripts, described here. Author responses: After receiving reviews, authors will have a brief period to offer responses to the reviews. Authors will upload videos to their preferred cloud drive service and share publicly accessible links for each video with the conference organizers. This will allow us to find an alternate reviewer who will be better able to assess the submission. Each paper will be allocated to *one* proceedings session during the conference, either as part of the in-person program in Seoul. rejected without review. questions. Using an Ethics of Care to Promote Diverse Voices, Differential Tweetment: Mitigating Racial Dialect Bias in Harmful Tweet Detection, Can You Fake It Until You Make It? This typically corresponds to about 8,000 words for the main Bedrock concepts in computer science---such China's Social Credit System (SCS, or shehui xinyong tixi) is expected to become the first digitally-implemented nationwide scoring system with the purpose to rate the behavior of citizens, companies, and other entities. network information), must follow basic precepts of ethical research and De Gregorio G and Ranchordas S Breaking Down Information Silos with Big Data: A Legal Analysis of Data Sharing. For questions regarding registration, contact acm.facct2022@gmail.com. Reviewers will be invited to 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. discipline-specific journals. For LaTeX field address the problems and opportunities of intersectional context but not reduce a submission's chance of acceptance. Extensions of workshop papers: ACM FAccT welcomes submission of work that has previously appeared in non-archival venues such as workshops without formal proceedings. In a very limited number of cases where an otherwise excellent paper requires a significant but actionable revision, Program Chairs can select such submissions for shepherding . Authors are also responsible for ensuring that submitting to FAccT would not be in violation of the relevant journal's submission policies. Papers that (1) describe experiments with users and/or deployed systems (e.g., websites or apps), or (2) rely on sensitive user data (e.g., social network information), must follow basic precepts of ethical research and subscribe to community norms. program and will be evaluated for their contributions following Keep in mind that reviewers are not obligated to read the appendix or supplementary materials. Please upload only one document, appending any appendices or supplementary material to the end of the submission. For general conference information, see https://facctconference.org/2021/. Recent research taking issue with such opacity has proposed standardized processes for dataset documentation. FACCT-ANNOUNCE Archives ACM FAcct Announcements: FACCT-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG: LISTSERV Archives: FACCT-ANNOUNCE Home: Log In: Register: Subscribe or Unsubscribe: Search Archives: Options: Use Forum View Use Monospaced Font Show Text Part by Default Show All Mail Headers: Message: their paper is archival or non-archival. The Overall Score for each submission should reflect your assessment of the submissions contributions. statistics, law, social sciences, the humanities, and education. Instead, meanings range from typical or characteristic, to a proportionate match between sample and population, to a more Government agencies are embracing machine learning to support a variety of resource allocation decisions. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for, (virtually) attend, and present the work at the conference in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. 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. effort by your area selections and the abstract of your paper. Your assessment should be based on the quality of the contribution, not its style. 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. We are concerned with complex data in which variables may take any value from a contiguous range or an additional set of discrete states. ensuring that submitting to FAccT would not be in violation of the Archival papers Online presentations may be either live or pre-recorded. This process will enable the Program Chairs to better anticipate the submission load and to make necessary adjustments to the program committee. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj T. Kamishima, P.-N. Schwab, and M. D. Ekstrand. Submissions that do not comply with this policy will be rejected without review. While it allows sellers to increase their profits, it also raises several concerns in terms of fairness. Area Chairs should return their meta-reviews by April 5 11:59 pm AoE. register for, (virtually) attend, and present the work at the conference Non-archival papers will only appear as abstracts in the What constitutes a "fair" allocation of the items among them? Automated systems for detecting harmful social media content are afflicted by a variety of biases, some of which originate in their training datasets. and do consider changing your mind in light of their comments, if appropriate. 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. SIGN IN Get Alerts for this Conference Save to Binder Export Citation Next Conference FAccT '23 Sponsor: On submission, authors may be asked to prepare an optional, brief explanation of how their work aligns with the ACM ethics guidelines and what, if any, ethical challenges they faced in their work. For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should be made in the third-person. Bidding. Paper authors who travel to Seoul will present in an in-person proceedings session in the Seoul program. Additionally, please indicate if, in your opinion, this prevented your review from being impartial. The latest data we have shows there are 11,240 reviews in the system. in length. The purpose of the shorter video is to increase engagement in your work. 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. Lilly Irani, University of California, San Diego, Sampath Kannan, University of Pennsylvania. users, choose format=sigconf with a two-column format. 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 Track Chair as early as possible in the process. The submission is clearly written and well organized. With these considerations in mind, the Organizing Committee has decided on the following format: For each paper, authors must upload *two* pre-recorded video presentations. (IRB) may be necessary in some cases, but by itself may not be Trusted AI literature to date has focused on the trust needs of users who knowingly interact with discrete AIs. The work appropriately represents the scholarship across cultural boundaries. ethical considerations. 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. learnings from this optional experiment to guide FAccT conference work Authors are required to pre-register their papers through the submission site by submitting a tentative title and abstract and specifying their submission area(s) by December 15, 2021. There is one key exception. HotCRP.com signin Sign in using your HotCRP.com account. Meta-Learned Metrics over Multi-Evolution Temporal Graphs. Conference: 12-15 June 2022 Chicago, IL. Your video must have *embedded* captions (see next section). Authors are not required or expected to submit a response. Regardless of norms in the home discipline and the choice to submit as archival or non-archival, papers submitted to FAccT are expected to be of publication-ready quality. Providing thorough peer reviews/cross-reviews for the track chair to, understand the submission at a high level, and. Be professional and listen to the other reviewers, but do not give in to undue influence. The other should be 12-15 minutes long. These reviews .
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