Re: [CfP] Deadline extended to 15 January 2017: Special issue ACM TOIT on “Computational Ethics and Accountability" (

Dear colleagues,

as per my earlier mail for a Call for a special issue on "Computational Ethics and Accountability" in ACM TOIT,
which I deem very relevant for Semantic Web tocpis, please note that we have extended the deadline until 

    15 January 2017 
 
and are looking forward for your submissions! Please feel free to contact me if you are interested to submit and have further questions!

Axel 

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Prof. Dr. Axel Polleres
Institute for Information Business, WU Vienna
url: http://www.polleres.net/  twitter: @AxelPolleres

> On 06 Sep 2016, at 15:22, Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@wu.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> 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)
> 
> The related topics are particularly relevant to the Semantic Wb community and Semantic Technologies are mentioned as one of the targetted methods of the special issue.
> 
> 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_besr@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 mpsingh@acm.org
> 
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 6 December 2016 10:01:07 UTC