PIE2020: 2nd International Workshop on Processing Information Ethically Copenhagen, Denmark, March 30, 2020 |
Conference website | http://pie.dia.uniroma3.it |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pie2020 |
Submission deadline | December 20, 2019 |
CALL FOR PAPERS
PIE 2020
2nd International Workshop on Processing Information Ethically
In conjunction with the joint International Conference on Extending Database Technology and International Conference on Database Theory (EDBT/ICDT) 2020
March 30, 2020 Copenhagen, Denmark
pie.dia.uniroma3.it
About the Workshop
Digital transformation comes with ethical concerns about how flexible information systems can be used and misused, posing new challenges for researchers and practitioners across the whole spectrum of Information Systems Engineering. Similarly, ethics-related aspects are becoming prominent in the data management community, where traditional processes for searching, querying, or analyzing data hardly pay any specific attention to the social problems their outcomes could bring about. These demands are broadly reflected into codes of ethics and in legally binding regulations.
The goal of the "2nd International Workshop on Processing Information Ethically" (PIE 2020) is to provide an original and exciting forum for discussing concerns about the way data is handled, new ideas about how to enable data ethics by design and by default, and how this opens a fertile ground for the data management and information system research. Towards this goal we will encourage papers with a data management perspective on fairness, diversity, and human interpretability of the data sources and of the extracted knowledge. We will also welcome theoretical contributions about algorithms, statistical methods, and other conceptual tools with high potential for raising discussion.
PIE 2020 will be co-located with the joint International Conference on Extending Database Technology and International Conference on Database Theory (EDBT/ICDT) (https://diku-dk.github.io/edbticdt2020), to be hosted in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Topics and Themes
The workshop encourages multidisciplinary submissions on, but not limited to:
* provenance and privacy
* algorithmic fairness
* nondiscriminatory knowledge extraction
* algorithmic transparency
* explainable AI
* bias in machine learning
* results interpretability
* ethical result personalization
* diversity-aware influence propagation
* automated fact-checking
* responsible data management
Submissions will go through a single-blind review process, and evaluated on the basis of originality, relevance, quality, and technical contribution. Regular papers presenting original work are solicited. Moreover, we also welcome short papers containing description of results already published, or visionary discussion of new directions of research;
Submission Guidelines
Authors can submit regular papers (up to 9 pages in length) and short papers (up to 6 pages), written in English. Papers must be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pie2020, in PDF according to the ACM Proceedings Format (https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acmart-master.zip). Please make sure you are using the latest 2020 version.
Publication
All accepted works will be published online at CEUR. After acceptance, authors are required to re-submit the final PDF. No different format is allowed. All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop, and at least one author is required to register.
Important Dates (All the deadlines are 11:59PM CET)
Paper submissions : 20 December 2019
Notification of acceptance: 24 January 2020
Camera-ready copies : 31 January 2020
Program Committee Co-Chairs and Organizers:
* Riccardo Torlone, Roma Tre University, torlone@dia.uniroma3.it
* Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, letizia.tanca@polimi.it
* Donatella Firmani, Roma Tre University, donatella.firmani@uniroma3.it
* Elena Nieddu, Roma Tre University, elena.nieddu@uniroma3.it