1st Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics, and Society on the Web – (FATES on the Web 2019)

In conjunction with The Web Conference 2019
May 13-14, 2019 San Francisco, CA, USA
fates19.isti.cnr.it

CALL FOR PAPERS

About the Workshop

Can we build inclusive and representative machine-learning based-algorithms? Who is responsible for harm when algorithmic decision-making results in discriminatory outcomes? To whom should algorithms be transparent? What approaches to ethics might algorithms require? The FATES on the Web 2019 (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics, and Society on the Web) is the first edition of a workshop to bring together researchers and enthusiasts concerned with the urgent challenges concerning algorithmic fairness and accountability, transparency, and ethics on modeling social networks. It will be co-located with The Web Conference 2019 (formerly known as WWW conference), to be hosted in San Francisco, California, celebrating this year the 30th anniversary of the Web.

The workshop will promote the discussion around these critical questions and join forces towards a Web that is truly inclusive and open, a Web for Good.

Topics and Themes 

The workshop encourages multidisciplinary submissions on, but not limited to:

• Fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in web search and (social) web mining
• Algorithmic fairness and algorithmic bias, particularly on web data
• Privacy-preserving and fairness-aware machine learning on the web
• Fairness-aware recommender systems and diversity in recommendation
• Transparency and ethics of web-scale data analysis
• Transparency, fairness, and ethics of crowdsourcing
• Ethics of opinion mining and opinion formation on the web
• Hate speech in social media
• Fake news, social bots, misinformation, and disinformation on social media
• Credibility and reputation in social media
• Ethics and legal audits on the use of sensitive data
• Algorithmic fairness and bias for smart cities
• Models for ensuring transparency and responsibility of government data
• Transparency-aware algorithms for online civic engagement
• Social sciences including sociology and political science and social web mining
• Ethical-aware machine learning models for healthcare

All submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated on the basis of originality, relevance, quality, and technical contribution. Submissions must present original work. Concurrent submissions are not allowed.

Publication

The proceedings of the FATES on the Web 2019 workshop will be published jointly with The Web Conference proceedings.

Submission Guidelines

Authors can submit two types of papers: short papers (up to 4 pages in length) and full papers (up to 8 pages in length), written in English. Some papers may be accepted as posters.

Papers must be submitted at [easychairlink], in PDF according to the ACM format published in the ACM guidelines (www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template), selecting the generic “sigconf”  sample. The PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded.

PDF files must be double-blind. Submissions containing author identifying information are subject to rejection without review.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: January 25, 2019  January 31 (extended!)
Paper acceptance notification: February 22, 2019
Paper camera-ready version: March 3, 2019
FATES on the Web 2019: May 13-14, 2019

Program Committee Co-Chairs and Organizers:

Chiara Renso, ISTI/CNR, Italy
Daniel Sadoc Menasché, UFRJ, Brazil
Jonice Oliveira, UFRJ, Brazil
Lívia Ruback, UFRJ, Brazil
Carlos Castillo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University, USA

Preliminary Program Committee

Anastasios Giovanidis, LIP6/Sorbonne Univ. (CNRS), France
Bettina Berendt, Univ. of Leuven, Belgium
Claudio Lucchese, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy
Eitan Altman, INRIA, France
Elias Bareinboim, Purdue University, USA
Giseli Rabello Lopes, UFRJ, Brazil
Karine Zeitouni, University of Versailles, France
Marco Antonio Casanova, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Maria Luiza Machado Campos, UFRJ, Brazil
Michele Melchiori, University of Brescia, Italy
Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada
Regis Pires Magalhães, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil