HWB2019: Handling Web Bias Northeastern University Boston, MA, United States, June 30, 2019

Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hwb19
Submission deadline	March 27, 2019

Motivation

A key aspect of the Web Science conference is exploring the ethical challenges of technologies, data, algorithms, platforms, and people in the web as well as detecting, preventing and predicting anomalies in web data including algorithmic and data biases. Awareness of the problems of algorithmic and data bias have been growing but even with careful review of the algorithms and data sets, it may not be possible to delete all unwanted bias, particularly when systems learn from historical data that encodes historical biases. Hence, the objective of this workshop is to provide a venue for researchers to move beyond awareness of the problem of algorithmic and data bias, to focus on best practices and practical strategies for identifying and handling it. Given the fundamentally multi-disciplinary nature of the Web Science conference, we expect that a workshop focused on these issues at this conference will find an especially vibrant home.  

List of Topics

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Algorithmic fairness and algorithmic bias, particularly on web data and services
• Practical strategies for identifying and managing algorithmic and data bias
• Case studies of successful and even unsuccessful mitigation strategies for bias
• Handling biases related to web interaction
• Fairness-aware systems for search, recommendation and machine learning on the web
• Biases due to exploration and exploitation trade-offs
• Transparency and ethics of web-scale data analysis
• Accountability and transparency in the use of sensitive data on the web
• Handling hate speech and disinformation on the web
• Handling of bias in opinion mining and opinion formation on the web
• Handling bias in reputation systems in social media

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers of at most 10 pages
• Short papers of at most 6 pages
• Discussion papers of at most 2 pages

The limit of pages includes the references. Please submit in PDF according to the ACM format published in the ACM guidelines (www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) with all non-standard fonts embedded.

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

Papers should be submitted through EasyChair at the URL: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=hwb19

Important Dates

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The deadlines are:

• Paper submission deadline: March 23 2019  March 27 2019 
• Acceptance Notification Authors: April 15 2019
• Camera-ready deadline (for inclusion in Web Science proceedings): May 1 2019
• Workshop: June 30 2019

Committees

Organizing committee

• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT & Northeastern University at SV, CA, USA
• Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University, USA

Program Committee

• Francesco Bonchi (ISI, Italy)
• Michael Ekstrand (Boise State, USA)
• Leo Ferres (UDD, Chile)
• Fosca Gianotti (ISTI/CNR, Italy)
• Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
• Darakhshan Mir (Buckell Univ, USA)
• Chiara Renso (ISTI/CNR, Italy)
• Drew Roselli  (Parallel-M, USA)
• Lívia Ruback (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Nisha Talagala (Independent, USA)

Publication

HWB19 proceedings will be published in the conference proceedings of the Web Science Conference. 

Venue

The conference will be held at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Ricardo Baeza-Yates ( rbaeza-yates@northeastern.edu) and Jeanna Matthews (jnm@clarkson.edu).