Call for Papers
SoGood 2022 – 7th Workshop on Data Science for Social Good
Affiliated with ECML-PKDD 2022, 19-23 September, Grenoble, France,
https://2022.ecmlpkdd.org/Workshop site:
https://sites.google.com/view/ecmlpkddsogood2022/The
possibilities of Data Science for contributing to social, common, or
public good are often not sufficiently perceived by the public at large.
Data Science applications are already helping in serving people at the
bottom of the economic pyramid, aiding people with special needs,
helping international cooperation, and dealing with environmental
problems, disasters, and climate change. In regular conferences and
journals, papers on these topics are often scattered among sessions with
names that hide their common nature (such as "Social networks",
"Predictive models" or the catch-all term "Applications"). Additionally,
such forums tend to have a strong bias for papers that are novel in the
strictly technical sense (new algorithms, new kinds of data analysis,
new technologies) rather than novel in terms of social impact of the
application.
This workshop aims to attract papers presenting
applications of Data Science for Social Good (which may, or may not
require new methods), or applications that take into account social
aspects of Data Science methods and techniques. There are numerous
application domains, a non-exclusive list includes:
• Government transparency and IT against corruption
• Public safety and disaster relief
• Access to food, water, sanitation and utilities
• Efficiency and sustainability
• Climate change
• Data journalism
• Social and personal development
• Economic growth and improved infrastructure
• Transportation
• Energy
• Smart city services
• Education
• Social services, unemployment and homeless
• Healthcare and well-being
• Support for people living with disabilities
• Responsible consumption and production
• Gender equality, discrimination against minorities
• Ethical issues, fairness, and accountability.
• Trustability and interpretability
• Topics aligned with the UN development goals:
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/The major selection criteria will be the quality of the work, the novelty of the application, and its social impact.
We
are also interested in applications that have built a successful
business model and are able to sustain themselves economically. Most
Social Good applications have been carried out by non-profit and charity
organizations, conveying the idea that Social Good is a luxury that
only societies with a surplus can afford. We would like to hear from
successful projects, which may not be strictly "non-profit" but have
Social Good as their main focus.
There will be an award for the best paper.
Paper submission:
Authors
should submit a PDF version in Springer LNCS style using the workshop
EasyChair site:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sogood2022. The
maximum length of papers in 16 pages, including references, consistent
with the ECML PKDD conference submissions.
Submitting a paper to
the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author
will attend the workshop and present the paper. Papers not presented at
the workshop will not be included in the proceedings. We will follow
ECML PKDD’s policy for attendance.
Paper publication:
Accepted papers will be published by Springer as joint proceedings of several ECML PKDD workshops.
Workshop format:
• Half-day workshop
• 1-2 keynote talks, speakers to be announced
• Oral presentation of accepted papers
Important Dates:
• Workshop paper submission deadline: July 1, 2022 (NEW DATE)
• Workshop paper acceptance notification: July 13, 2022
• Workshop paper camera-ready deadline: July 27, 2022
• Workshop: September 23, 09h-12.30, 2022 (TBC)
Program Committee members (more to be added):
• Thiago Andrade, INESC TEC, Portugal
• Andre de Carvalho, University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Carlos Ferreira, INESC TEC and IPP, Portugal
• Elaine Faria, University of Uberlandia, Brasil
• Cèsar Ferri, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
• Konstantin Kutzkov, Amalfi Analytics, Spain
• Ana Lorena, Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Brazil
• Rita Nogueira, INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal
• Maria Pedroto, INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal
• Sonia Teixeira, INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal
• Emma Tonkin, University of Bristol, UK
• Alicia Troncoso, University Pablo de Olavide, Spain
• Kristina Yordanova, University of Rostock, Germany
• Martí Zamora, UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain
Organizers:
• Ricard Gavaldà (UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain),
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• Irena Koprinska (University of Sydney, Australia),
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• João Gama (University of Porto, Portugal),
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• Rita Ribeiro (University of Porto, Portugal),
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