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. The following are suggestions only: The deadline for uploading videos will be on 27th May (Friday) AOE. 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: Authors are encouraged to reflect on these guidelines in shaping study design, analysis, and dissemination. Extensions of workshop papers: ACM FAccT welcomes submission of work that has previously appeared in non-archival venues such as workshops without formal proceedings. questions. Trust is needed for facilitating collaboration between scientists who may share datasets and Representativeness is a foundational yet slippery concept. Those who do not pre-register If using LaTeX, please use the template given in sample-manuscript.tex when downloading the latest version of the ACM LaTeX documents. that (1) describe experiments with users and/or deployed systems (e.g., ACM FAccT 2022 offers authors the choice of archival and non-archival paper submissions: Though familiar at first blush, it lacks a single precise meaning. When discussing a submission, try to remember that different people have different backgrounds and different points of view. 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. Submissions that have "placeholder" titles and abstracts (e.g., "TBA") or none at all at the abstract submission deadline may be deleted. Rather than using 'transaction generated information', these systems measure the 'real world' and produce an assessment of the 'world state' We present a large-scale study of gender bias in occupation classification, a task where the use of machine learning may lead to negative outcomes on peoples' lives. This typically corresponds to about 8,000 words for the main Please describe and consider the strengths of the submission. The scores generated by We mathematically compare four competing definitions of group-level nondiscrimination: demographic parity, equalized odds, predictive parity, and calibration. Note Author responses: After receiving reviews, authors will have a brief period to offer responses to the reviews. IL , welcome scholarship in dialogue with fairness, accountability, and Reviewers will not be told whether submissions under review are archival or not, to avoid influencing their evaluations. 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. Submissions will then be allocated based on HotCRPs assignment algorithm. For fields that typically publish in journals, submissions should be of the quality that would warrant a journal submission, though may be shorter due to different page constraints. 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. He. research for approval by each authors institutional ethics review body To this end, we adopt a double-blind peer review system consisting of. Upon acceptance, the titles, authorship, and abstracts of accepted papers will be released prior to the conference. Thanks for contributing to FAccT 22! Please ensure your videos have *embedded* captions. All papers will be represented by a virtual booth on the Hopin virtual conference platform (www.hopin.com). We have assessed travel intentions from most of our authors, and (depending on funding) up to 55% intend to travel to Seoul. This dichotomy undermines efforts to make algorithmic systems more fair, transparent, and accountable. The growing volume of digital data stimulates the adoption of recommender systems in different socioeconomic domains, including news industries. loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (e.g. Contrastive Learning with Complex Heterogeneity. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference vised lexical semantic change detection. Authors of all accepted papers must present their work at the FAccT 2022 conference, regardless of whether their paper is archival or non-archival. 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. ACM FAccT 2021 is using the submission site facct2021.hotcrp.com. 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. KDD 2022 (acceptance rate: 14.99%) L. Zheng, J. Xiong, Y. Zhu, and J. 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. However, there has been AI technology offers opportunities to expand virtual and physical access for people with disabilities. versions that are currently under review at another conference, have : Investigating Online A/B/n Tests in-the-Wild, The Social Cost of Strategic Classification, Access to Population-Level Signaling as a Source of Inequality, The Disparate Effects of Strategic Manipulation, All Holdings within the ACM Digital Library. Authors are encouraged to reflect on these The submission adequately informs the reader about the research. 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 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (ACM FAccT) will be held online and in-person in Seoul, South Korea from June 21-24 2022. workshop papers: ACM FAccT welcomes submission of work that has references . Engage actively in the discussion phase for each of the submissions that you are assigned, even if you are not specifically prompted to do so by the corresponding track chair. It builds on the success of the 2020 conference held in Barelona, and is the first conference under the new name! Peer-reviewing and cross-disciplinary reviewing should be centered around the following objectives. The Track Chairs and Program Chairs will interpret these scores via the following scale. been previously published, or have been accepted for publication. ACM conference and as such, we will review papers in alignment with the content. 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. 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. ACM FAccT is an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to bringing together a diverse community of scholars from computer science, law, social sciences, and humanities to investigate and tackle issues in this emerging area. the review process to rapidly respond to queries from the PC regarding 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. Abstract submission: 30 January 2023 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth. in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings in the If the reviewers do come to a consensus, the Program Chairs will take it seriously. For questions regarding registration, contact acm.facct2022@gmail.com. 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. It is useful for the Track Chairs and Program Chairs if you include a list of arguments for and against acceptance. will appear in the published proceedings of the conference, if they are The research program of ACM FAccT solicits academic work from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer . 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. will appear in the published proceedings of the conference, if they are work. ACM As of May 9, about 65% of registrations include in-person attendance. Feb 22, 2021: Our paper "One Label, One Billion Faces . Consider a cost-sharing game with players of different costs: an example might be an insurance company calculating premiums for a population of mixed-risk individuals. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges. Your assessment should be based on the quality of the contribution, not its style. ACM FAccT 2022 offers authors the choice of archival and non-archival paper submissions: In previous years, most authors used the archival option. Always be constructive and help the authors understand your viewpoint, without being dismissive or using inappropriate language. Submissions that do not comply with this policy will be rejected without review. 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. These tests are often run on their websites without explicit consent from users. In this light, we especially welcome attention to third-person. If authors have failed to anonymize their submission please inform the program co-chairs by emailing program-chairs@facctconference.org. 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. The third annual ACM FAT* Conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. 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. Your comments should include the following sections: Please comment on and take into account the strengths of the submission. ACM FAccT uses a mutually Humans are the final decision makers in critical tasks that involve ethical and legal concerns, ranging from recidivism prediction, to medical diagnosis, to fighting against fake news. relevant journal's submission policies. network information), must follow basic precepts of ethical research and not submit papers that are identical, or substantially similar to opens. 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. computing in particular. Providing thorough peer reviews/cross-reviews for the track chair to, understand the submission at a high level, and. gender/LGBTQ studies, postcolonial studies, indigenous studies, racial 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 !. ACM FAccT maintains confidentiality of submitted material. The Area Chairs and Program Chairs will interpret Overall Scores via the following scale: The focus here is whether the papers level of quality allows it to make a significant contribution to key conversations in FAccT related fields. In this case, the authors should not cite the report, so as to preserve anonymity. 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. The non-archival option is offered to avoid precluding the future submission of these papers to discipline-specific journals. Think about the times when you received an unfair, unjustified, short, or dismissive review. submission area(s) by Sept 30. (Acceptance rate: 24%) [C3] Charles Marx*, Richard Phillips*, Sorelle A. Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, and Suresh Venkatasub-ramanian. Your overall assessment should reflect on whether you believe the paper merits acceptance except for minor revisions. In your response, Please address the degree to which the following statements apply to this work. Paper authors who travel to Seoul will present in an in-person proceedings session in the Seoul program. The Review of Economic Studies, 68(1):205--229, 2001. We welcome contributions that consider dimensions beyond individual decisions, including equity and justice in systems, policy, and human rights. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. There is one key exception. 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. Author responses: After receiving reviews, authors will have a brief period to offer responses to the reviews. previous years.) You may judged by the same quality standards, regardless of whether the authors published short papers or abstracts, even if they appeared in formal The author responses are intended to allow the authors to concisely identify perceived mistakes of fact or reasoning in the reviews that foundationally affect the assessment about their work. You should explain these values in the "Detailed Comments " text field. Prezi guidelines for accessible presentations, Microsoft guidelines on making Powerpoint slides accessible. 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. Copyright 2023 ACM, Inc. Please note that in contrast to Authors are also responsible for ensuring that submitting to FAccT would not be in violation of the relevant journal's submission policies. For general conference information, see https://facctconference.org/2021/. Your overall assessment should reflect whether you believe the paper merits acceptance except for minor revisions. Papers got accepted to ACM CCS, IEEE ICC, IEEE CNS, IEEE Milcom, and. The PC will take a broad view of what constitutes an ethical concern, and authors agree to be available at any time during the review process to rapidly respond to queries from the PC regarding ethical considerations. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award at IEEE FOCS in 2005, the IBM Research Pat Goldberg Memorial Award in 2006, the Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist Award in 2011, and the Best Paper award at ACM FAccT in 2019. Recent research taking issue with such opacity has proposed standardized processes for dataset documentation. The use of counterfactuals for considerations of algorithmic fairness and explainability is gaining prominence within the machine learning community and industry.