From cthillis at torontomu.ca Tue Jun 10 21:18:29 2025 From: cthillis at torontomu.ca (Calvin Hillis) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:18:29 -0400 Subject: [kdd] CFP - KDD Responsible AI Special Day Message-ID: Call for Papers: Responsible AI Special Day at KDD 2025 Conference: KDD 2025 ? The ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Special Day Theme: Responsible Artificial Intelligence Location: Toronto, Canada Date: August 5, 2025 Submission Deadline: Tentative - June 28 Overview The Responsible AI Special Day at KDD 2025 invites paper submissions on research, methodologies, and practical applications in responsible artificial intelligence. The goal of this special day is to foster discussions and advancements in ethical, fair, transparent, and socially responsible AI systems. As AI continues to shape critical aspects of society, ensuring these technologies are deployed in a responsible and equitable manner is of paramount importance. Topics of Interest We encourage submissions on any topic within the broad space of responsible AI, including but not limited to: - Adversarial AI and Red Teaming: Approaches for testing and improving AI robustness against adversarial threats. - Fairness and Bias in AI: Techniques to assess and mitigate biases in AI models and data. - Algorithmic Decision-Making and Accountability: Strategies to ensure recourse, interpretability, and transparency in AI-driven systems. - Trust and Reliability in AI Systems: Methods to enhance trust, appropriate reliance, and assurance testing. - Auditing AI Models and Systems: Approaches for evaluating AI applications across sectors, including industry, government, and civic society. - Sociotechnical Perspectives on AI: Research on the cultural, historical, and social implications of AI adoption. - Environmental Considerations in AI: Investigating the sustainability and ecological footprint of AI technologies. - Regulatory, Legal, and Policy Considerations: Governance frameworks, intellectual property, data protection, and regulatory compliance. - Human-Centered AI Design: Participatory, interdisciplinary, and values-sensitive approaches to AI system development. - AI Ethics and Social Impact: Studies on justice, equity, labor implications, and risks associated with AI deployment. - AI Ethics Education: Strategies for integrating responsible AI concepts into curricula and professional training programs - AI Ethics and Social Impact: Studies on justice, equity, labor implications, and risks associated with AI deployment. - Transparency and Explainability: Techniques for documenting, communicating, and improving the interpretability of AI systems. - Risk Management and AI Safety: Technical and policy-based strategies for mitigating AI harms and failures. We welcome a broad range of perspectives and encourage interdisciplinary submissions that connect responsible AI with other fields of study. Submissions from diverse methodological backgrounds, including theoretical work, position papers, empirical research, case studies, and practical applications, are highly encouraged. Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit either original work or a summary of work that has already been published in other conferences or journals relevant to the topics above. If a work is being submitted which has already been published, the authors would need to indicate this at the time of submission and include the published version of their work. Submissions will be reviewed through a single-blind peer-review process and preferably follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format provided by Springer. - Paper Format: Submissions are encouraged to adhere to the LNCS template, which can be found here . - Submission Link: openreview.net/group?id=KDD.org/2025/RAI_Special_Day#tab-your-consoles - Review Process: Single-blind peer review Submission Types We encourage a variety of manuscript types: - Original Papers: We accept different types of submissions, including research papers, and position papers. Manuscripts can be up to 6 pages in length. - Previously Published Papers: We welcome papers that have already been accepted at prestigious conferences or journals. Authors will only need to submit a 1-page abstract summarizing the published work, along with the full citation of the original publication. Important Dates - Submission Deadline: [June 28, 2025] - Notification of Acceptance: [July 21, 2025] - Responsible AI Special Day: [August 5, 2025] Organizing Committee - Ebrahim Bagheri, University of Toronto - Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo - Faezeh Ensan, Toronto Metropolitan University - Benjamin C. M. Fung, McGill University - S?bastien Gambs, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al - Reihaneh Rabbany, McGill University - Calvin Hillis, Toronto Metropolitan University Contact For inquiries, please contact responsibleai at torontomu.ca We look forward to your contributions and an engaging discussion on the future of Responsible AI at KDD 2025! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: