[AEQUITAS@ECAI 2024] Fairness and Bias in AI - Cfp --- DEADLINE EXTENDED

[Roberta Calegari]

Dear all, 

the deadline for the AEQUITAS workshop @ ECAI has been extended to June 15th. 

We hope to see many of you there to discuss these important topics together.

Best,

Roberta 

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                                    AEQUITAS 2024
                 The 2nd Workshop on Fairness and bias in AI 
                              Collocated with ECAI 2024
                         19.10 - 24.10, 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
                https://aequitas-aod.github.io/aequitas-ecai24.github.io/
                          https://www.ecai2024.eu/programme/workshops
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Call for Papers
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AI-based decision support systems are increasingly deployed in industry, in the public and private sectors, and in policymaking to guide decisions in important societal spheres, including hiring decisions, university admissions, loan granting, medical diagnosis, and crime prediction. As our society is facing a dramatic increase in inequalities and intersectional discrimination, we need to prevent AI systems to amplify this phenomenon but rather mitigate it. As we use automated decision support systems to formalize, scale, and accelerate processes, we have the opportunity, as well as the duty, to revisit the existing processes for the better, avoiding perpetuating existing patterns of injustice, by detecting, diagnosing and repairing them. To trust these systems, domain experts and stakeholders need to trust the decisions. Despite the increased amount of work in this area in the last few years, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of how pertinent concepts of bias or discrimination should be interpreted in the context of AI and which socio-technical options to combat bias and discrimination are both realistically possible and normatively justified.

Topics of Interest
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This workshop provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, presentation of results and preliminary work in all areas related to fairness and bias in AI; including, but not limited to:

* Bias and Fairness by Design
* Fairness measures and metrics
* Counterfactual reasoning
* Metric learning
* Impossibility results
* Multi-objective strategies for fairness, explainability, privacy, class-imbalancing, rare events, etc.
* Federated learning
* Resource allocation
* Personalized interventions
* Debiasing strategies on data, algorithms, procedures
* Human-in-the-loop approaches
* Methods to Audit, Measure, and Evaluate Bias and Fairness
* Auditing methods and tools
* Benchmarks and case studies
* Standard and best practices
* Explainability, traceability, data and model lineage
* Visual analytics and HCI for understanding/auditing bias and fairness
* HCI for bias and fairness
* Software engineering approaches
* Legal perspectives on fairness and bias
* Social and critical perspectives on fairness and bias

Submissions
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Submissions will be managed via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aequitas2024.

We encourage the submission of original contributions, investigating novel methodologies/approaches to design/implemement fair AI systems and algorithms or to tackle bias in AI. In particular, authors can submit:
(A) Regular papers (max. 12 + references – CEUR.ws format);
(B) Short/Position/Discussion papers (max 6 pages + references - CEUR.ws format).

At least one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the workshop to present the contribution.


Special issue
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All accepted papers will be published in CEUR-WS. A selection of the best papers, accepted for the presentation at the workshops, will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in a Journal.


Important Dates
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* Paper submission deadline: June 15th, 2024
* Notification to authors: July 15th, 2024
* Camera-Ready submission: September 8th, 2024
(the deadline for all dates is intended Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12))

Chairs
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* Roberta Calegari, University of Bologna E-mail: roberta....@unibo.it
* Virginia Dignum, Umeå University E-mail: virg...@cs.umu.se
* Barry O’Sullivan, University College Cork E-mail: osulliv...@ucc.ie