All deadlines are at 11:59 PM Anywhere On Earth on the given date.
We invite submissions for the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). FAccT is an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to bringing together a diverse community of scholars advancing research in responsible, safe, ethical, and trustworthy computing. Research from all fields is welcome, including algorithmic, statistical, human-centered, theoretical, critical, legal, and philosophical research.
The 2025 conference will be held in Athens, Greece. Conference dates will be confirmed soon.
FAccT welcomes papers that advance all areas related to the broad sociotechnical nature of computing, inviting work from computer science, engineering, the social sciences, humanities, and law.
Listed alphabetically, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Topics that are out of scope: Work that does not have deep engagement with the social component of computational systems or that is focused on purely hypothetical concerns is considered outside the scope of the conference.
We require all submitters of papers to fully read the Author Guide, which provides details on the reviewing process, policies that must be adhered to, and other relevant instructions.
Papers should be submitted using the HotCRP submission tool at https://facct2025.hotcrp.com/, which will open in January 2025.
Submissions must be no longer than 14 pages, excluding references. An additional page of content is allowed for ethics, adverse impacts, and other statements (see the Author Guide section on "Endmatter Sections"). Accepted submissions will be allowed to include an additional content page for the camera-ready version.
Submissions must be anonymized and may not contain any identifying information. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from the submission, as well as acknowledgements, positionality statements, competing interests statements, or other potentially identifying information. Citations to prior work from the authors should be made in the third person. Submissions that do not comply with this policy will be rejected without review.
FAccT offers authors the choice of archival and non-archival paper submissions. Archival papers will appear in the published conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library, if they are accepted. Non-archival papers will only appear as abstracts in the proceedings, if they are accepted. Most authors use the archival option; the non-archival option is offered to avoid precluding the future submission of these papers to discipline-specific journals. Authors must indicate at the submission time whether they are submitting an archival or non-archival paper, and switching category after submission is not possible.
You may not submit papers that are identical or substantially similar to papers that are currently under review at another peer-reviewed conference or journal, have been previously published, or have been accepted for publication. Such submissions violate our concurrent submission policy and will be removed from submission. See the Author Guide for exceptions.
We use the ACM TAPS workflow for formatting manuscripts, described here. See the formatting instructions section of the Author Guide.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for, attend, and present the work at the conference for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings. An option for virtual presentation will be available for authors who cannot attend in person with details available after paper acceptance notifications.
Further questions can be directed to program-chairs@facctconference.org
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