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Subject: [Dbworld] Call for Papers: SoGood 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Data 
Science for Social Good @ECML PKDD 2017
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 10:43:17 -0500
From: Ricard Gavalda <gavalda at cs.upc.edu>
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CALL FOR PAPERS

SoGood 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Data Science for Social Good
Affiliated to ECML PKDD 2017
Skopkje, Macedonia, September 18th, 2017
https://sites.google.com/site/ecmlpkddsogood2017/

This is the second edition of the workshop; the first was held jointly 
with ECML PKDD 2016.

The possibilities of Data Science for contributing to social, common, or 
public good are often
not sufficiently perceived by the public at large. Data science 
applications are already helping in serving people at the bottom of the 
economic pyramid, aiding people with special needs,  helping 
international cooperation, or dealing with environmental problems, 
disasters, and climate change. In regular conferences and journals, 
papers on these topics are often scattered among sessions with names 
that hide their common nature (such as "Social networks", "Predictive 
models""
or even under the catch-all term "Applications"). Additionally, such 
forums tend to have a strong bias for papers that are novel in the 
strictly technical sense (new algorithms, new kinds of data analysis, 
new technologies) rather than novel in terms of social impact of the 
application.
This workshops aims to attract papers presenting applications (which 
may, or may  not require new methods) of Data Science to Social Good, or 
else that take into account social aspects of Data Science methods and 
techniques. Application domains should be as varied as possible. A 
non-exclusive list could be:

* Public safety and disaster relief
* Access to food, water, and utilities
* Efficiency and sustainability
* Government transparency
* Data journalism
* Economic, social, and personal development
* Transportation
* Energy
* Smart city services
* Education
* Social services, unemployment and homelessness
* Healthcare
* Cybersafety (including cyberbullying, propaganda and radicalization, etc.)
* Ethical issues, fairness, and accountability
* In general, the UN development goals at 
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

The novelty of the application and its social impact will be major 
selection criteria. Additionally, "social good" projects are often 
associated to the idea of non-profit; we are particularly interested in 
applications that have built a viable business model, that is, while not 
defined as "non-profit", still have social good as their main focus.
Workshop format:

This is a half-day workshop, comprising:

* Oral presentation of the accepted papers. Depending on the number, 
they may range from 10 to 20 minutes each. * A panel: The future of Data 
Science as a contributor to Social Good.
   Obstacles, opportunities, challenges, and controversial issues (e.g., 
privacy, ethics, discrimination, etc.).
   How can the scientific community organize itself to contribute?   Are 
we using Data Science to solve problems that really matter and how to 
encourage this?   How can sustainable business models be created?
* Possibly, a poster session with the accepted papers and late arrivals.

Paper submission:

Authors should submit a PDF version in Springer LNCS style using the 
workshop EasyChair site,
accessible from the workshop site.

Papers are expected to be between 8 and 15 pages long, but there is no 
hard limit on paper length, within reason. Conditionally accepted papers 
may be required to address requirements from the PC for change,
including length changes, for the camera-ready version.
Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted 
at least one author commits to presenting it at the workshop. Papers not 
presented
at the workshop will not be included in the proceedings.

Paper publication:

Proceedings will be published in the CEUR Workshop proceedings series 
(http://ceur-ws.org/).

Important Dates:

* Submission deadline: Monday, July 3, 2017
* Acceptance notification : Monday, July 24, 2017
* Camera-ready deadline: Monday, August 8th, 2017
* Workshop: September 18th, 2017

PC members

* Albert Bifet, Telecom ParisTech
* Carlos Castillo, Eurecat
* Michelangelo Ceci, U. degli Studi di Bari
* Nitesh Chawla, U. of Notre Dame
* Itziar de Lecuona, U. Barcelona
* Jeremiah Deng, U. of Otago
* Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard U.
* Cesar Ferri, UPV Valencia
* Geoffrey Holmes, U. of Waikato
* Josep-Lluis Larriba, UPC BarcelonaTech
* Yann-Ael Le Borgne, U. Libre Bruxelles
* Alexandra Olteanu, IBM Research
* Carlos Soares, U. of Porto
* Alicia Troncoso, Pablo de Olavide U.
* Evgueni Smirnov, U. Maastricht
* Tong Wang, U. Iowa

Organizers and contact:
  * Ricard Gavalda (UPC BarcelonaTech), gavalda at cs.upc.edu
* Irena Koprinska (U. of Sydney), irena.koprinska at sydney.edu.au
* Stefan Kramer (JGU Mainz), kramer at informatik.uni-mainz.de

Workshop site: https://sites.google.com/site/ecmlpkddsogood2017/

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