[CFP] ACM FAccT (formerly ACM FAT*)

[Facct Conference]

Dear all,

Hope you are keeping safe and well.

The Call for Papers for ACM FAccT is now open! https://facctconference.org/2021/cfp.html

ACM FAccT (formerly known as ACM FAT*)  welcomes submissions that touch on any of the topics of fairness, accountability and transparency (broadly construed). We welcome scholarship in dialogue with fairness, accountability, and transparency in computational systems, including critical approaches that investigate core assumptions and propose alternative designs, practices, and policies. We especially welcome contributions that consider dimensions beyond individual decisions, including equity and justice in systems, policy, and pedagogy.

The ACM Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT) 2021 conference welcomes submissions on these topics from a broad set of expertise from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, statistics, the humanities, and law.  

We welcome submissions in the following areas:

• Algorithm Development e.g. Fairness; Interpretable and explainable models; Data collection and curation
  
• Data and Algorithm Evaluation e.g. Metrics; Audits; Evaluations
  
• Applications e.g. NLP; Computer vision; Search engines; Recommender systems; Programming languages; Databases
  
• Human Factors e.g. Human-computer interaction; Humans-in-the-loop; Information visualization; UX design; Community or participatory-research design
  
• Privacy and Security e.g. Formal approaches; Privacy-preserving models; Usable privacy and security
  
• Law and Policy e.g. Organizational governance; Data protection; Non-discrimination; Codes of ethics; Models from historically marginalized perspectives (e.g. Global Southern, feminist, communitarian, or Indigenous perspectives)
  
• Humanistic theory and critique e.g. Interrogating foundational concepts; Bridging critical concepts across fields; Philosophical, moral and ethical analysis
  
• Social and organizational processes e.g. Algorithms in organizations and institutions; Social, cultural, and historical shaping of algorithmic phenomena; algorithmic impacts on social phenomena
  
• Community-based approaches e.g. Participatory algorithm design; Community designed and maintained systems; Activism-driven technological change
  
• Education e.g. Pedagogical approaches, proposals, and experiences in areas of relevance to FAccT
  

Questions? Contact the Program Co-chairs: program-chairs@facctconference.org. And stay tuned for updates by following @facctconference on Twitter.

Paper pre-registration: 30 September 2020

Paper submission: 7 October 2020

Notifications: 11 December 2020

Conference: early March 2021

All deadlines are at 11:59 PM anywhere on earth (AoE) on the given date.

Best wishes,

Deb Raji & Abeba Birhane

Publicity co-chairs

Fairness, Accountability and Transparency conference