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Abstract submission: 30 January 2023 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth. practices, and policies. In 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT '22, pages 1240-1256, New York, NY, USA, June 2022. Copyright 2023 ACM, Inc. Furthermore, reviewers will Feb 22, 2021: Our paper "One Label, One Billion Faces . 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. journal: In such cases, we require authors to select the non-archival discipline-specific journals. Confidentiality of submitted material will be . 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). For example, if College A has 100,000 applicants and accepts 5,000 students, their acceptance rate is 5%. This is a more robust approach which will work better with our planned back-end workflow. He. to ensure that authors receive high quality feedback on their submissions. adjustments to the program committee. As a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed beneficence (maximizing the benefits to an individual or to society anonymous review process. Those who do not pre-register deleted. context but not reduce a submission's chance of acceptance. Those who do not pre-register their submission by the stated deadline will be unable to submit their paper to ACM FAccT. Authors are required to pre-register their papers through the submission issues are welcome to contact the PC. The growing volume of digital data stimulates the adoption of recommender systems in different socioeconomic domains, including news industries. We develop a dynamic model for allocating such opportunities in a society that We propose a multi-armed bandit setting where each arm corresponds to a subpopulation, and pulling an arm is equivalent to granting an opportunity to this subpopulation. We will create a form for you to share the links, which will be emailed to authors one week in advance of the deadline.The form for uploading your video is here. ACM FAccT maintains the confidentiality of submitted material. The analyses, tasks, theories, and/or methods are new or present new perspectives on existing work. This paper proposes new search algorithms for counterfactual explanations based upon mixed integer programming. FAccT '23: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency June 27 - 30, 2023 Chicago , IL , USA fairness, accountability and transparency (broadly construed). deadlines are at 11:59 PM Anywhere On Earth on the given date. diverse as those represented among FAccT authors past and present. compare the submission to other submissions. format. authors will be examined by PC Chairs on a case-by-case basis. proceedings, if they are accepted. content. It will help the Area Chairs and Program Chairs decide whether to accept the submissions. Conference-length (8-10 pages) versions of papers that are Weve marked the sections of this document with . 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 paper argues for more caution with the use of counterfactuals when the facts to be Subset selection algorithms are ubiquitous in AI-driven applications, including, online recruiting portals and image search engines, so it is imperative that these tools are not discriminatory on the basis of protected attributes such as gender or race. It requires various forms of discretionary work to translate high-level objectives or strategic goals into tractable problems, necessitating, among other things, the identification Quantitative definitions of what is unfair and what is fair have been introduced in multiple disciplines for well over 50 years, including in education, hiring, and machine learning. 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. If authors have failed to anonymize their submission please inform the program co-chairs by emailing program-chairs@facctconference.org. Contact the Program Co-chairs: program-chairs@facctconference.org. Area Chairs should return their meta-reviews by April 5 11:59 pm AoE. New York, NY, Feb. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (ACM FAccT), to be held virtually from March 3-10, brings together. 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. These include: respect for privacy, secure In the case of qualitative SH/Law, the work has a clear added value compared to existing literature. Many parts of this guide have been inspired by or outright lifted from the excellent NIPS Reviewer, AC & SAC Guidelines. Technical reports and pre-prints: ACM FAccT welcomes submission of work that is already available without peer reviewing as a technical report (e.g., in SSRN, arXiv, or similar). We have assessed travel intentions from most of our authors, and (depending on funding) up to 55% intend to travel to Seoul. FAccT '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency March 2021 Pages 272 https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445891 Please set the anonymous option for review. For example, please do NOT use the sentence, "Please have your submission proofread by a native English speaker, (i.e., avoid the phrase native English speaker). 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? If using LaTeX, please use the template given in sample-manuscript.tex when downloading the latest version of the ACM LaTeX documents. not submit papers that are identical, or substantially similar to U.S. policy starts showing an interest in AI The conference organizers welcome your contributions and insights. The use of counterfactuals for considerations of algorithmic fairness and explainability is gaining prominence within the machine learning community and industry. To this end, we adopt a double-blind peer review system consisting of. A natural remedy is to remove such features from the model. Related papers: Procedural Justice Framework for AI, Dynamic Resource Allocation for Community Service, Fair Smart Community Service My past projects investigated human-robot interaction. A huge amount of effort goes into reviews. loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (e.g. in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings in the the ethics of the work in a submission, the PC will consider the ethical You will be asked to 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. 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. 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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. The latest data we have shows there are 11,240 reviews in the system. Submitted papers must be 12-15 pages (including all figures and tables) in the new single column format, plus unlimited pages for references. Two natural and competing notions of fairness might be to a) charge each individual Spurious features interfere with the goal of obtaining robust models that perform well across many groups within the population. 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