Call for Papers

The workshop on Bridging Learning and Algorithmic Fairness in the Operation of Urban Infrastructure and Network Systems is soliciting paper submissions (up to 6 pages, including references) of novel work aimed at using algorithmic fairness and/or learning for urban infrastructure and networked systems. To this end, the workshop takes a broad perspective and welcomes work from various disciplines, including operations research, computer science, transportation, and the social sciences. Submissions should have theoretical or empirical results to demonstrate the approach, and specify how the project fills a gap in the current literature.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Data-driven methodologies for urban infrastructure systems

• Novel sensing based methods to quantify fairness/equity measures in urban infrastructure applications

• Designing equitable smart transportation or power grid systems

• Redistributive mechanisms to improve access to opportunity, equity, or fairness for smart cities

• New fairness/equity definitions in urban infrastructure applications

• Trade-offs between fairness/equity and other objectives (e.g., efficiency, public acceptance) in urban infrastructure systems

• Evaluating fairness/equity issues in systems deployed for urban infrastructure applications

• Empirical studies of the above topics

• Pilot/Field deployments of CPS for equitable or data-driven operation of urban infrastructure systems

Submission Instructions:

Submitted papers must contain up to 6 pages, including all figures, tables, references, and acknowledgements. Submissions are required to comply with the guidelines for ACM conference manuscripts with the double-column paper template ("sigconf") with 9pt font, default line-spacing and margins. Templates are available at ACM templates and the following command can be used: \documentclass[sigconf,authorversion]{acmart}.

All submissions must be written in English and should contain the authors' names, affiliations, and contact information. Accepted papers will be published with ACM; however, authors can choose to opt out of formal proceedings. We welcome prior work published in conferences or journals (authors will have to opt out of publication in case the submitted work does not add to the previously published version, but can still present their work at the workshop)

Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their paper during the workshop either as a contributed talk and as a poster, which they will be notified of at the time of acceptance.

Additional Guidelines:

1. By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy. https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-participants-and-subjects

2. Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. The collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement throughout 2022. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

Please reach out to djalota@stanford.edu and jlaz@berkeley.edu with any questions.