Call for Papers & Participation

Fourth Workshop on DATA FOR THE WELLBEING OF MOST VULNERABLE https://sites.google.com/view/dataforvulnerable23 June 5, 2023 at Limassol, Cyprus * Submissions due: March 27, 2022 *

At the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) https://www.icwsm.org/2023/index.html

The scale, reach, and real-time nature of the Internet is opening new frontiers for understanding the vulnerabilities in our societies, including inequalities and fragility in the face of a changing world. From tracking seasonal illnesses like the flu across countries and populations, to understanding the context of mental conditions such as anorexia and bulimia, web data has the potential to capture the struggles and wellbeing of diverse groups of people. Vulnerable populations including children, elderly, racial or ethnic minorities, socioeconomically disadvantaged, underinsured or those with certain medical conditions, are often absent in commonly used data sources. The recent developments around COVID-19 epidemic makes these issues even more urgent, with an unequal share of both disease and economic burden among various populations.

Thus, the aim of this workshop is to encourage the community to use new sources of data as well as methodologies to study the wellbeing of vulnerable populations. The selection of appropriate data sources, identification of vulnerable groups, and ethical considerations in the subsequent analysis are of great importance in the extension of the benefits of big data revolution to these populations. As such, the topic is highly multidisciplinary, bringing together researchers and practitioners in computer science, epidemiology, demography, linguistics, and many others.

- We anticipate topics such as the below will be relevant: - Establishing cohorts, data de-biasing - Validation via individual-level or aggregate-level data - Linking data to disease and other well-being - Population data sources for validation - Correlation analysis and other statistical methods - Longitudinal analysis on social media - Spatial, linguistic, and temporal analyses - Privacy, ethics, and informed consent - Data quality issues

Important Dates

Papers Submissions: March 27, 2023 Paper Acceptance Notification: April 10, 2023 Final Camera-Ready Paper Due: May 6, 2023 ICWSM-2023 Workshops Day: June 5, 2023

Submission Instructions

We welcome both 2-page abstracts, as well as Long (8 pages) and Short (4 pages) papers - excluding references (11 pages max with references and ethics statement). The Long and Short papers will be published in ICWSM Workshop proceedings (http://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/).

The papers have to follow the AAAI format, as outlined here: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/aaai-2023-author-kit/wxnmhzcrjbpc

Submit here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dwmv23

Contact

Feel free to contact organizers with any questions:

Yelena Mejova yelena.mejova@isi.it ISI Foundation, Italy https://yelenamejova.com Kyriaki Kalimeri kalimeri@ieee.org ISI Foundation, Italy https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalimeri/ Daniela Paolotti daniela.paolotti@isi.it ISI Foundation, Italy https://www.isi.it/en/people/daniela-paolotti