Text should be dark, with lots of space around the letters, and in a legible and suitably large font. to ensure that the best content is presented at the conference, and. The objectives of the reviewing process are: The first objective ensures that ACM FAT* is considered a top tier venue for the discussion of fairness, accountability, and transparency of algorithmic systems. This flagship conference is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of HCI and attracts thousands of international attendees annually. ACM FAccT maintains confidentiality of submitted material. 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). The research community is young but growing fast. Providing thorough peer reviews/cross-reviews for the authors to. 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. We are concerned with complex data in which variables may take any value from a contiguous range or an additional set of discrete states. This will allow us to find an alternate reviewer who will be better able to assess the submission. 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. 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). 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. content of author rebuttals will be provided when the rebuttal period For authors, it provides transparency into our decisions and, as such, guidance for revising their work for rebuttal and for their final presentation. avoid influencing their evaluations. In-person presentations must be live. Note that submitting If so, one cross-disciplinary reviewer will be asked to review in a 14 working day time-frame as set out above. 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). ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). Furthermore, reviewers will deadlines are at 11:59 PM anywhere on earth (AoE) on the given date. Author rebuttals: (Please note, this is a different process than that of building, analysis, and practical impact alongside psychological, ACM FAccT uses a mutually anonymous review process. 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. an ethical concern, and authors agree to be available at any time during If the ACM FAccT 2022 [Distinguished Paper Award] (acceptance rate: 25%) D. Fu, L. Fang, R. Maciejewski, V. Tovik, and J. paper to ACM FAccT. How can perspectives and tools from Paper authors who travel to Seoul will present in an in-person proceedings session in the Seoul program. Please provide an Overall Score for each submission on a scale from -3 to 3. network information), must follow basic precepts of ethical research and will take place in the context of a worldwide reckoning with racism and In Proceed- on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT ings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evalua- '21, page 610-623, New York, NY, USA. consider dimensions beyond individual decisions, including equity For Track Chairs and Program Chairs, it provides a basis for decision-making about a submission. Please ensure your videos have *embedded* captions. ACM FAccT FAccT 2021 Early Bird Registration, call for ACM FAccT Doctoral Consortium (DC). will appear in the published proceedings of the conference, if they are reconsider their reviews and scores in light of rebuttals before final The third annual ACM FAT* Conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. Reviewers will be invited to Submissions that do not comply with this policy will be rejected without review. One should be 3-4 minutes long. Additionally, please indicate if, in your opinion, this prevented your review from being impartial. work. publication archive. This paper proposes new search algorithms for counterfactual explanations based upon mixed integer programming. Chairs to better anticipate the submission load and to make necessary ACM ethics guidelines. Conference: 12-15 June 2022 Chicago, IL. A variety of programs are available to embed captions into your videos. Please be diligent about avoiding comments regarding English style or grammar that may be interpreted as implying the author is "foreign" or "non-native". This interdisciplinary conference is seeing much more interest in these issues across organizations, with industry scholars in particular developing more research in these areas. 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 !. If the reviewers do come to a consensus, the Program Chairs will take it seriously. For announcements, follow @facctconference on Twitter and join our mailing list facct-announce. ACM FAccT (formerly known as ACM FAT*) solicits work This also provides transparency and guidance to authors interested in improving their work for the ACM FAT* audience. June 12-15, 2023 in Chicago, USA. 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. Please describe and consider the strengths of the submission. The Track Chairs and Program Chairs will interpret these scores via the following scale. usability and accessibility as well as support the longevity of ACM For accessibility related concerns, contact inclusion@facctconference.org. Questions? The latest data we have shows there are 11,240 reviews in the system. anonymous review process. U.S. policy starts showing an interest in AI The fourth annual ACM FAccT conference will take place online March 3-10, 2021. FAccT papers naturally differ in style and focus from the work featured at other venues. 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It is okay to be unavailable for part of the review process (e.g., on vacation for a few days), but if you will be unavailable for more than that -- especially during important windows (e.g., discussion, decision-making) -- you must let the Track Chairs know. These works may be submitted as-is or in an extended form. Michael Kearns,University of Pennsylvania. (IRB) may be necessary in some cases, but by itself may not be questions. It is clear how this work differs from previous contributions. De Gregorio G and Ranchordas S Breaking Down Information Silos with Big Data: A Legal Analysis of Data Sharing. 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 other should be 12-15 minutes long. disclosure of audits. choose the archival or non-archival option. Authors are not required or expected to submit a response. present their work at the FAccT 2021 conference, regardless of whether In keeping with our roots in computing, we appreciate both systems 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. Review content serves two purposes. FAccT '23: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency June 27 - 30, 2023 Chicago , IL , USA 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. Best can be defined in a variety of ways, including quality, clarity, originality, interdisciplinarity and significance. Upon acceptance, the titles, authorship, and abstracts of accepted papers will be released. Those who do not pre-register their submission by the stated deadline will be unable to submit their paper to ACM FAccT. that (1) describe experiments with users and/or deployed systems (e.g., issues are welcome to contact the PC. Password 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. 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. ACM FAT* 2020 is using the FAT Conf 2020 HotCRP. FAccT '23: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency June 27 - 30, 2023 Chicago , IL , USA FAccT '23 website Bibliometrics Citation count 2,481 Downloads (6 weeks) 2,104 Downloads (12 months) 18,888 Downloads (cumulative) 84,968 Citation count 2,481 Downloads (6 weeks) 2,104 Downloads (12 months) 18,888 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. Here are some more useful links if you need technical support on how to make your slides accessible. Note that With great power comes great responsibility! FAccT* also welcomes full paper submissions that extend previously 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. A natural remedy is to remove such features from the model. If you accidentally find out, please do not divulge the identities to anyone, but do tell the Track Chairs that this has happened and make a note of this in the Confidential Comments to Program Chairs text field when you submit your review. HotCRP.com signin Sign in using your HotCRP.com account. Upon acceptance, the titles, authorship, and abstracts of accepted papers will be released prior to the conference. 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 Review of Economic Studies, 68(1):205--229, 2001. formal proceedings. The claims/arguments are explored in sufficient depth. 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). study and development of computing as a field of knowledge and Reviewers will not be told whether submissions under review are archival or not, to avoid influencing their evaluations. 2018. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, And stay tuned for updates by following @facctconference on Twitter or joining the FACCT-ANNOUNCE listserv. 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. FAccT: Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. In this case, the authors should not cite the report, so as to preserve anonymity. Our research community is multidisciplinary in its make-up and orientation. 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. In 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT '22, pages 1240-1256, New York, NY, USA, June 2022. all submissions will have the same page length requirements and will be We welcome contributions that consider dimensions beyond individual decisions, including equity and justice in systems, policy, and human rights. Online presentations may be either live or pre-recorded. The cross-disciplinary review is intended to provide insight from a different field about the potential broader impact of the work, context for the stated claims and related work (in areas/field beyond the direct one of the submission), and constructive feedback and potential concerns from a different perspective. These reviews . We will use Authors are also responsible for ensuring that submitting to FAccT would not be in violation of the relevant journal's submission policies. context but not reduce a submission's chance of acceptance. When appropriate, authors are encouraged to include a subsection describing these issues. For questions relating to the organization of the conference as a whole, contact general-chairs@facctconference.org. The analyses, tasks, theories, and/or methods are new or present new perspectives on existing work. Stability against changes in data distribution is an important mandate for responsible deployment of models. relevant domains inform a broad perspective on how to frame and advance submissions violate our dual submission policy and will be removed from We welcome submissions in the following areas: FAccT is an ACM conference about computing, dedicated to rigorous FAccT is an Ask yourself, Do the other reviewers' comments make sense?" Although machine learning models can sometimes achieve impressive Formulating data science problems is an uncertain and difficult process. 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. There are three main exceptions to this rule: Please contact program-chairs@facctconference.org for any 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. Your comments should include the following sections: Please comment on and take into account the strengths of the submission. 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. ethical considerations. Your video must have *embedded* captions (see next section). Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. other forms of injustice, in society generally and within the field of You should not let the authors identities influence your decision in any way. Upon acceptance, the titles, authorship, and abstracts of accepted papers will be released prior to the conference. 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. 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. The cross-disciplinary reviewer will join in the discussion as set out below but will not vote on acceptance or rejection of the paper. 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. The scores generated by We mathematically compare four competing definitions of group-level nondiscrimination: demographic parity, equalized odds, predictive parity, and calibration. Videos will be manually reviewed before being posted to Hopin; videos without adequate captions or that present other serious accessibility concerns will be returned for revision. : 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? 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? 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. (27.9% acceptance rate). Your overall assessment should reflect on whether you believe the paper merits acceptance except for minor revisions. loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (e.g. Papers may also be formatted simply in two-column [1] It can be tempting to comment only on the weaknesses, however, Area Chairs and Program Chairs need to understand both the strengths and the weaknesses in order to make an informed decision. Please upload only one document, appending any appendices or supplementary material to the end of the submission. 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. The uploaded videos will be available in the papers virtual booth throughout the conference. As a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed Thereby, in the SCS, " Powered by machine learning techniques, social media provides an unobtrusive lens into individual behaviors, emotions, and psychological states. Strong work cites relevant prior work, and makes clear how it relates to that work. Authors are encouraged to reflect on these In this Anonymized smartphone-based mobility data has been widely adopted in devising and evaluating COVID-19 response strategies such as the targeting of public health resources. Classification models are often used to make decisions that affect humans: whether to approve a loan application, extend a job offer, or provide insurance. FAccT welcomes submissions that touch on any of the topics of 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. Our results speak to a tension between the desire to keep a proprietary model secret and the ability to offer model explanations. The 2022 conference will be held both in-person and online. 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The purpose of the shorter video is to increase engagement in your work. and abstracts up until the full paper submission deadline, however the 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. Paper submission: 6 Feburary 2023 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth. Papers will be matched to reviewers with appropriate expertise based on these designations and the paper abstract. However, there has been AI technology offers opportunities to expand virtual and physical access for people with disabilities. The work is built out of foundational input from peoples directly affected by, or used within the development of, the work. option for the FAccT submission. Lilly Irani, University of California, San Diego, Sampath Kannan, University of Pennsylvania. ACM ethics guidelines. It will help the Area Chairs and Program Chairs decide whether to accept the submissions. compare the submission to other submissions. technical soundness. practices, and policies. ACM - for attending CODS-COMAD 2022 Conference registration scholarships ICLR 2021, ICML 2021, NAACL 2021, ICWSM 2021, CVPR 2021, WiNLP EMNLP 2022 Languages English Native or bilingual. 2.556; the score needed to be in the top 25.7% (acceptance rate for CHI2019). 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. The ACM Digital Library is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Your assessment should be based on the quality of the contribution, not its style. Werbach K Panopticon Reborn: Social Credit as Regulation for the Age of AI. Such comments might include explicit comparisons of the submission to other submissions and criticisms that are more bluntly stated. . Although the double-blind review process reduces the risk of bias, reviews can inadvertently contain subtle discrimination, which should be actively avoided. Though familiar at first blush, it lacks a single precise meaning. Learning resource allocation policies from observational data with an application to homeless services delivery. The previous two conferences had acceptance rates of 25% and attracted attendees from across academia, industry and public policy. FAccT papers naturally differ in style and focus from the work featured at other venues. 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: proceedings. In such applications, individuals should have the ability to change the decision of the model. Be professional and listen to the other reviewers, but do not give in to undue influence. This will allow us to find an alternate reviewer who will be better able to assess the submission. ensuring that submitting to FAccT would not be in violation of the 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. What kinds of marginalization are relevant to Algorithmic systems are being adopted in a growing number of contexts, fueled by big data. This typically corresponds to about 7,500 words for the main content. Automated systems for detecting harmful social media content are afflicted by a variety of biases, some of which originate in their training datasets. the concerns of ACM FAccT? Upon acceptance, the titles, authorship, and abstracts of From creating paintings to generating novel art styles, AI based generative art has showcased a variety of applications. Authors are also responsible for choice of archival and non-archival paper submissions: The non-archival option is offered to Rich subgroup fairness picks a statistical fairness constraint (say, Computer vision and other biometrics data science applications have commenced a new project of profiling people. 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.