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. ACM ethics guidelines. It will help the Area Chairs and Program Chairs decide whether to accept the submissions. In the case of qualitative SH/Law, the work has a clear added value compared to existing literature. From creating paintings to generating novel art styles, AI based generative art has showcased a variety of applications. reconsider their reviews and scores in light of rebuttals before final (Acceptance rate: 16%) 11. Consequential decision-making typically incentivizes individuals to behave strategically, tailoring their behavior to the specifics of the decision rule. You may The Overall Score for each submission should reflect your assessment of the submissions contributions. Authors are also responsible for ensuring that submitting to FAccT would not be in violation of the relevant journal's submission policies. Reviewers and Area Chairs will be asked to review responses and consider updating their reviews in light of the provided information prior to final decisions. Submissions that do not comply with this policy will be Beginning next year, submissions for FAccT 2022 Claims are well supported by theoretical analysis, evidence, argument, and/or experimental results. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, decisions are made. maintained. ACM FAccT 2021 offers authors the 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. He was elected an ACM Fellow in 2019. research for approval by each authors institutional ethics review body If authors have failed to anonymize their submission please inform the program co-chairs by emailing program-chairs@facctconference.org. This typically corresponds to about 7,500 words for the main content. Such questions are not only a matter of The conference organizers welcome your contributions and insights. while minimizing harm to the individual), risk mitigation, and post-hoc Recent work has revealed that major automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems such as Apple, Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft perform much more poorly for Black U.S. speakers than for white U.S. speakers. Despite vigorous debates about the technical characteristics of risk assessments being deployed in the U.S. criminal justice system, remarkably little research has studied how these tools affect actual decision-making processes. Meta-Learned Metrics over Multi-Evolution Temporal Graphs. 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. For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should be made in the third-person. personal and professional concern, but also a perennial focus of FAccT To receive news about ACM FAccT, follow @facctconference on discipline-specific journals. Area chairs will oversee the reviewing process. judiciously. These include: respect for privacy, secure Stylistic Authorship Attribution of Small, Incomplete Source Code Fragments Edwin Dauber,Aylin Caliskan, Richard Harang, Gregory Shearer, Michael Weisman, Frederica Nelson, and Rachel Greenstadt 19th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium(PETS), 2019. If necessary, this can be escalated to the PC chairs. 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. other forms of injustice, in society generally and within the field of previously appeared in non-archival venues such as workshops without Anomaly detection aims to find instances that are considered unusual and is a fundamental problem of data science. Settings such as lending and policing can be modeled by a centralized agent allocating a scarce resource (e.g. chairs for clarification. 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. 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. Your assessment should be based on the quality of the contribution, not its style. Keep in mind that reviewers are not obligated to read the appendix or supplementary materials. fairness, accountability and transparency (broadly construed). The latest data we have shows there are 11,240 reviews in the system. previous years.) from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, Each paper will be reviewed by members of the program committee. perspectives on fairness? For example, if College A has 100,000 applicants and accepts 5,000 students, their acceptance rate is 5%. The purpose of the shorter video is to increase engagement in your work. New York, NY, June 15, 2022 - 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. 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. computing in particular. questions. The Overall Score for each submission should reflect your assessment of the submissions contributions. You should explain these values in the "Detailed Comments " text field. Author rebuttals: (Please note, this is a different process than that of soundness and justification of the submission, just as it does its The submission is clearly written and well organized. Chairs to better anticipate the submission load and to make necessary Authors can use their preferred tools to record videos. A variety of programs are available to embed captions into your videos. This years conference learnings from this optional experiment to guide FAccT conference work Please describe and consider the strengths of the submission. 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. One should be 3-4 minutes long. 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. effort by your area selections and the abstract of your paper. not be told whether submissions under review are archival or not, to As is usual at CS conferences, the assignment of reviewers takes place by way of a bidding procedure. 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. 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. 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. Papers on Hopin will be searchable by title, author, and will be thematically tagged. (September 2022) ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT, formerly known as ACM FAT*) is a peer-reviewed academic conference series about ethics and computing systems. A huge amount of effort goes into reviews. pages (including all figures and tables), plus unlimited pages for Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2020. Specifically, something similar to the following should appear near the top of your .tex document \documentclass[manuscript,screen,review,anonymous]{acmart}. Papers that are neither in ACM format nor follow the simplified anonymous review process. been previously published, or have been accepted for publication. (IRB) may be necessary in some cases, but by itself may not be The ACM CHI Conference, 'CHI2021', Online Virtual Conference. ACM FAccT maintains confidentiality of submitted material. 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. 2.556; the score needed to be in the top 25.7% (acceptance rate for CHI2019). Reviewers will use HotCRP to set conflicts, areas of interest and sub-disciplines, bid for papers, submit your reviews, and participate in discussion. (27.9% acceptance rate). practices, and policies. social, and institutional analyses. To this end, we adopt a double-blind peer review system consisting of. compare the submission to other submissions. 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. ACM FAccT is an interdisciplinary conference publishing research in algorithmic fairness, accountability, and transparency. ACM FAccT 2021 is using the submission site facct2021.hotcrp.com. This paper proposes new search algorithms for counterfactual explanations based upon mixed integer programming. 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. Think about the times when you received an unfair, unjustified, short, or dismissive review. Take your job seriously and be fair. 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. Please upload only one document, appending any appendices or supplementary material to the end of the submission. register for, (virtually) attend, and present the work at the conference from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. For LaTeX May 3, 2021: I received Northeastern's 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Award! ACM ethics guidelines. The research community is young but growing fast. 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). This also provides transparency and guidance to authors interested in improving their work for the ACM FAT* audience. And stay tuned for updates by following @facctconference. In 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT '22, pages 1240-1256, New York, NY, USA, June 2022. Our assessments, publications and research spread knowledge, spark enquiry and aid understanding around the world. FAccT22 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). Options and templates are available for both Word and LaTeX users. We recommend using 16:9 Aspect Ratio, and minimum 1080p resolution. the ethics of the work in a submission, the PC will consider the ethical issues are welcome to contact the PC. references . 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 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 analyses, tasks, theories, and/or methods are new or present new perspectives on existing work. We welcome submissions in the following areas: FAccT is an ACM conference about computing, dedicated to rigorous If you have a question about a specific submission or evaluation criteria for a track, your primary point of contact should be the relevant Track Chairs, who you can contact through Confidential Comments to Track Chairs and PC Chairs text field. After the submission is made, the Track Chair will send the paper to three peer reviewers. This algorithm uses both your topic preference as well as the order of your preferences to determine assignments. Algorithmic systems are being adopted in a growing number of contexts, fueled by big data. avoid precluding the future submission of these papers to proceedings. Final submissions will be due on January 21, 2022. ACM FAccT uses a mutually anonymous review process. Contact the Program Co-chairs: program-chairs@facctconference.org. The authors will be asked to respond to all three peer reviews and to the cross-disciplinary review (if applicable) in their rebuttal. We welcome contributions that consider dimensions beyond individual decisions, including equity and justice in systems, policy, and human rights. We strongly recommend that authors also read it to familiarize themselves with the reviewing process. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to : Impacts of Differentially Private Synthetic Data on Downstream Classification Fairness, Documenting Computer Vision Datasets: An Invitation to Reflexive Data Practices, Leveraging Administrative Data for Bias Audits: Assessing Disparate Coverage with Mobility Data for COVID-19 Policy, Better Together? He. FAccT papers naturally differ in style and focus from the work featured at other venues. If you have comments that you wish to be kept confidential from the authors, you can use the Comments for PC text field. 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. ACM Digital Library. storage of sensitive data, voluntary and informed consent if users are will appear in the published proceedings of the conference, if they are Authors will be asked to select one or more of the above areas when they register their submissions. He. KDD 2022 (acceptance rate: 14.99%) We are concerned with complex data in which variables may take any value from a contiguous range or an additional set of discrete states. Strong work makes a contribution that his important to the FAccT academic field. Though familiar at first blush, it lacks a single precise meaning. 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. 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. their paper is archival or non-archival. Targeted advertising is meant to improve the efficiency of matching advertisers to their customers. As of May 9, about 65% of registrations include in-person attendance. Submitted papers must be 8-10 June 12-15, 2023 in Chicago, USA. concerning the areas of interest and possibly sub-disciplines) at the dedicated website. third-person. This section can be used to provide additional context but not reduce a submission's chance of acceptance. The Overall Score for each submission should reflect your assessment of the submissions contributions. 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). Important Dates. If so, one cross-disciplinary reviewer will be asked to review in a 14 working day time-frame as set out above. Copyright 2023 ACM, Inc. 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. Many powerful computing technologies rely on implicit and explicit data contributions from the public. 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. Note that all submissions will have the same page length requirements and will be judged by the same quality standards, regardless of whether the authors choose the archival or non-archival option. 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). These works may be submitted as-is or in an extended form. In Proceed- on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT ings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evalua- '21, page 610-623, New York, NY, USA. 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. to ensure that the best content is presented at the conference, and. FAccT '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency March 2021 Pages 272 https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445891 What constitutes a "fair" allocation of the items among them? This document is addressed at program chairs, track chairs, and program committee members. ACM conference and as such, we will review papers in alignment with the Area Chairs should return their meta-reviews by April 5 11:59 pm AoE. FAccT: Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. Authors unsure about topical fit or ethical issues are welcome to contact the PC. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. 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. This process will enable the Program Chairs to better anticipate the submission load and to make necessary adjustments to the program committee. In-person presentations must be live. 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. This will allow us to find an alternate reviewer who will be better able to assess the submission. Authors are not required or expected to submit a response. not submit papers that are identical, or substantially similar to Opportunities such as higher education can promote intergenerational mobility, leading individuals to achieve levels of socioeconomic status above that of their parents. This paper uses a theory of oppression to ground and extend algorithmic oppression. study and development of computing as a field of knowledge and respond to initial reviews with a rebuttal. proceedings, if the previously published version does not exceed 4 pages Your assessment should be based on the quality of the contribution, not its style. Thanks for contributing to FAccT 22! 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? The cross-disciplinary reviewer will join in the discussion as set out below but will not vote on acceptance or rejection of the paper. 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. The growing volume of digital data stimulates the adoption of recommender systems in different socioeconomic domains, including news industries. 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. To this end, 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. 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. These tests are often run on their websites without explicit consent from users. last year, papers and position papers are in scope for the To reconcile algorithmic Price discrimination - offering different prices to different customers - has become common practice. Always be constructive and help the authors understand your viewpoint, without being dismissive. Stability against changes in data distribution is an important mandate for responsible deployment of models. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj T. Kamishima, P.-N. Schwab, and M. D. Ekstrand. 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. In keeping with our roots in computing, we appreciate both systems the review process to rapidly respond to queries from the PC regarding context but not reduce a submission's chance of acceptance. This section can be used to provide additional 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. As of May 9, about 65% of registrations include in-person attendance. 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. The results or conclusions are important for the FAccT academic field. While it allows sellers to increase their profits, it also raises several concerns in terms of fairness.