Scope

The Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Fairness (WTAF) will be held in Patras, Greece on Monday, 8 July 2019 in conjunction with the 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2019). Its aim is at making the Theoretical Computer Science audience more familiar with several important problems related to fairness, such as cake-cutting, resource allocation, market environments and auctions, or algorithmic fairness in machine learning. Most of these problems exhibit a strong algorithmic aspect but somewhat strangely, the bulk of the research on those topics has been outside the main TCS venues. The aim of the workshop will be to identify and highlight the most important open problems related to fairness and make them easily accessible to researchers in TCS, especially those who are less familiar with this “tangent” line of research in these other venues.

Important deadlines

Submission deadline: 26 April 2019

Notification of acceptance: 23 May 2019

Paper submission

We welcome submissions with strong theoretical and experimental results that have been published during the last 2-3 years as well as unpublished or on-going works, related to the following non-exhaustive list of topics:

• Algorithmic fairness
• Cake cutting
• Fair allocation of indivisible goods/chores
• Matching and matching markets
• Market equilibria
• Participatory budgeting
• Strategic issues in fair division problems

The workshop’s proceedings will be non-archival, and the authors of accepted papers are free to publish their results in archival conferences and journals. However, the accepted papers will be linked so that they are accessible from the Workshop's participants.

The authors are encouraged to format their paper following the LIPIcs template (used by ICALP), or as a single-column article, leaving at least 1 inch margins all around. There is no page limit, but submissions should contain within the first ten pages a clear presentation of the merits of the paper, including a discussion of its importance within the context of prior work and a description of the key technical and conceptual ideas used to achieve the main results. To enhance the reviewing process, authors are encouraged to use double spacing and line numbering.

Submissions should be uploaded to the submission server (now open!).