From: Axel Polleres <a...@polleres.net> Subject: [CfP] 2nd call: Special issue ACM TOIT on “Computational Ethics and Accountability" (Deadline: 1 December 2016) Date: 6 September 2016 at 23:16:43 GMT+2 To: ruleml-all@ruleml.org, "rr-association-memb...@inf.unibz.it Members" <rr-association-memb...@inf.unibz.it>
Dear colleagues, after the summer, allow me a quick reminder to our call for papers for a Special issue of ACM TOIT on “Computational Ethics and Accountability: Intelligent Systems for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility" (Deadline: 1 December 2016) Find the PDF version of the call here: http://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-BESR.pdf Looking forward to your submissions! Deadline: 1 Dec 2016 Axel -- ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 2nd Call for Papers for a Special Section on COMPUTATIONAL ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY Intelligent Systems for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility http://toit.acm.org/announcements.cfm Individual and organizational actions have social consequences that call for the implementation of recommendations of good con‐ duct at multiple levels of granularity. For instance, government agencies identify transparency as a key value that promotes ac‐ countability, public participation, collaboration, and effective‐ ness. For firms , business ethics and compliance programs are becoming critical and, as the OECD reports, a growing number of firms issue voluntary codes of conduct to express commitment to values like legal compliance, accountability, privacy, and trust. The traceability, evaluation, and communication of values and good conduct is an open challenge that can be faced with the sup‐ port of intelligent systems. On the one hand, specialized management systems evolve for help‐ ing organizations respect their commitments. On the other hand, the application of intelligent systems for sharing authority and delegating decisions introduces challenges and requirements for building systems for handling ethical issues, e.g. serving the orthogonal requirements of transparency, accountability, and pri‐ vacy preservation. We invite high‐quality submissions that develop new insights, models, formal theories, methodologies, systems, and applications where concerns on ethics and social responsibility are dealt with, based on intelligent systems. Multiagent systems, semantic web and agreement technologies, val‐ ue sensitive design are just some of the research areas, whose methods and results can fruitfully support business ethics and social responsibility. We especially welcome submissions that make significant computational advances across the following di‐ mensions. MODELS AND METHODS (include but are not limited to) * Normative multiagent systems, organizations, norms, institu‐ tions, and sociocognitive‐technical systems * Semantic and agreement technologies * Accountability, individual and collective ethics, ethics of personalization, human values and value theory, value sensitive design, ethics by/in design, ethics and autonomous systems, and ethical engines and reasoning * Legal reasoning, computable contracts, and computational law * Knowledge management, reasoning, business processes, learning, data mining, knowledge extraction, social computing, social net‐ works, data‐aware approaches, software engineering, and recommen‐ dation systems ISSUES AND APPLICATIONS (include but are not limited to) * Transparency, trust and reputation, organizational ethics, and social responsibility * Privacy, legal and norm compliance, and (distributed) computa‐ tional justice * Finance and business transactions, fair business practices, (human‐resource) management, consumer protection, economic sys‐ tem, corruption, taxation, and sales and marketing * Health care, public administration, research, smart cities, se‐ curity and surveillance, and decision support Please send any queries about this CfP to: acmtoit_b...@di.unito.it SPECIAL SECTION EDITORS * Cristina Baroglio, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy * Olivier Boissier, Mines Saint‐Etienne, France * Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics & Business, Austria DEADLINES Submission: December 1 , 2016 First decision: March 15, 2017 Revision: April 30, 2017 Final decision: June 30, 2017 Final: July 31, 2017 Publication: October 31, 2017 SUBMISSION http://toit.acm.org/authors.cfm Please select "Special Section: Computational Ethics and Account‐ ability" under Manuscript Type dropdown in the Manuscript Central website. ACM TOIT EDITOR‐IN‐CHIEF Munindar P. Singh. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University mpsi...@acm.org -- Prof. Dr. Axel Polleres Institute for Information Business, WU Vienna url: http://www.polleres.net/ twitter: @AxelPolleres _______________________________________________ RuleML-all mailing list RuleML-all@ruleml.org http://ruleml.org/mailman/listinfo/ruleml-all_ruleml.org
