CALL FOR PAPERS
SAC 2006: Track on Computer Ethics and Human Values
The 21st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
23-27 April 2006; Dijon, France

SAC 2006:

For two decades, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a leading conference for computer scientists, computer engineers, and computing professionals. SAC is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing SIGAPP. The proceedings of the conference are published by the ACM in printed form, on CD-ROM, and in the ACM Digital Library. In 2006, SAC will be held April 23-27 in Dijon, France. More information about SAC 2006 is available at their website: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2006/.

2006 Track on Computer Ethics and Human Values (1st Edition):

For the first time, SAC will include a technical track on computer ethics. We invite scholars in computer ethics to apply their expertise to specific issues in applied computing; and we invite scholars and practitioners in computer technology to thoughtfully consider how the latest technical developments in applied computing are likely to affect and be affected by users and what they value.

• The human values that are implicit or explicit in the development of new computing applications
• Techniques that developers can employ to make wise and just tradeoffs between convenience and computer security
• Ethical analyses of the relationship between the severity of harm and penalties for particular cybercrimes
• Analysis of the different attitudes and laws concerning cryptography and steganography
• Methods to identify, document, and arbitrate the tradeoffs between the expanding use of computers to augment (and in some situations replace) human decision-making
• Ethical consideration of the relationship between human trust and network protocols
• New technologies for identifying Internet users and the costs and benefits of those technologies
• Predicting unintended human side effects of new technologies and their deployment
• Ethical analysis of the use of neural nets that autonomously learn
• Agile methods and their ethical significance
• The relationship between creativity and predictability in software development
• Critiquing automated structures that monitor and control people
• Examining the role of culture in the development of computer applications
• Case studies of ethical issues in computer applications
• The ethics of the disclosure of vulnerabilities
• The moral obligation of programmers to produce privacy-protecting software systems

Program Committee:

• Florence Appel; Computer Science Dept.; Saint Xavier University; Chicago; USA
• Peter Boltuc; Dept. of Philosophy; University of Illinois at Springfield; USA and Centre for Development of Distance Education; Warsaw School of Economics; Poland
• Tracy Camp; Dept. of Computer Science; Colorado School of Mines; Golden; USA
• Göran Collste; Prof., Center for Applied Ethics, Linkoping University; Sweden
• Luciano Floridi; Philosophy Department and IEG; Oxford University; UK; and Dipartimento di Scienze Filosofiche, Universita' di Bari; Italy
• Judith Gersting; Dept. of Computer Science; University of Hawaii at Hilo; USA
• Donald Gotterbarn; Software Engineering Ethics Research Institute; Eastern Tennessee State University; Johnson City; USA
• Frances S.Grodzinsky; Computer Science Dept.; Sacred Heart Univ.; Fairfield, CT; USA
• Joseph R. Herkert; Science, Technology, and Society Program; North Carolina State University; USA
• Kenneth E. Himma; Dept. of Philosophy; Seattle Pacific University; USA
• Rachelle Hollander; National Science Foundation; Washington, DC; USA
• Jeroen van den Hoven; Dept. of Philosophy; Delft University of Technology; the Netherlands
• Tom Jewett; Dept. of Computer Engineering and Computer Science; California State University, Long Beach; USA
• Cem Kaner; Software Engineering; Florida Institute of Technology; Melbourne, FL; USA
• David K. Larson; Dept. of Management Information Systems; University of Illinois at Springfield; USA
• Michael C. Loui; Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering; University of Illinois at Urbana / Champaign; USA
• Walter Maner; Computer Science; Bowling Green State University; OH; USA
• C. Dianne Martin; College of Information Systems; Zayed University; Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Keith Miller, Dept. of Computer Science; University of Illinois at Springfield; USA (track chair); miller.keith@uis.edu
• James H. Moor; Dept. of Philosophy; Dartmouth College; Hanover, NH; USA
• Brian M. O'Connell; Dept. of Computer Science; Central Connecticut State University; New Britain, CT; USA
• David Preston; School of Computing and Technology; University of East London; UK
• Simon Rogerson; Center for Computing and Social Responsibility; De Monfort University; Leicester, UK
• Leslie Schwartzman; Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications; Roosevelt University; Chicago; USA
• Eugene H. Spafford; CERIAS; Purdue University; West Lafayette, IN; US
• Herman Tavani; Philosophy Dept.; Rivier College; Nashua, NH; USA
• John Weckert; School of Information Studies; Charles Sturt University; Wagga Wagga, Australia
• Marty J. Wolf; Math & Computer Science Dept.; Bemidji State University; Bemidji, MN; USA

Submission Guidelines:

Full, original papers on the topics listed above or related topics will be considered. Please do not make parallel submissions to other conferences or other tracks of this conference. We are asking reviewers to invest their time evaluating papers, and we don't think it's fair to do that if an accepted paper ultimately will not be presented at our track in SAC 2006. Each submitted paper should include only a title, not its authors; this is part of our double-blind reviewing process. Any self-references in the paper should also be made in such a way that the authors' identity is not obvious.

Papers and abstracts should be submitted as PDF files. If that format is inconvenient for an author, please contact Keith Miller, the track chair. The entire paper, including title and references, should not exceed 4000 words. An abstract must be submitted by 3 September 2005, and the full paper 12 September. All paper submissions will be done through the eCMS paper management web site. To use this web site, an author should register (it's free) at http://milo.cs.iupui.edu/sac2006/SubmitAbstract.aspx?TrackID=32. Authors can then follow the instructions for submitting abstracts and full papers. If authors have any problems with paper submissions, please contact the track chair, Keith Miller, or Jeff Allen.

Review and Publication:

Each paper will be reviewed using a double blind process. Volunteers for reviewing are invited to email Keith Miller. Authors of accepted papers will receive directions for producing camera ready copy for the proceedings with their acceptance notification.

Important Dates:

• 3 September 2005: Abstract Submission
• 12 September 2005: Submission of full papers
• 15 October 2005: Notification of acceptance or rejection
• 5 November 2005: Submission of camera-ready copies of accepted papers
• 23-27 April 2006: SAC 2006 in Dijon, France

This call for papers is available at http://people.uis.edu/kmill2/sac2006/cehv/.
Please direct any questions about this call or the website to Keith Miller, the track chair.