The Software Engineering Code of Ethics asks professionals to ensure software that for example, does not diminish the quality of life, threaten privacy or harm the environment. Software Engineering inevitably raises ethical concerns and questions about the role of human values in both practice and research. It is essential to identify ethical concerns and questions about the role of human values throughout the range of software engineering activities. It is also important to ensure that the involvement of human subjects in software engineering research is ethical.
The objective of SEthics workshop series is to explore the intersection of ethics, human values and software engineering activities. The first edition of the workshop, REthics 2020 , was organised with the requirements engineering community. Now in the second edition, SEthics 2021, we aim to shed light on current practices and research results and also identify emerging trends and research directions in software engineering.
SEthics 2021 will be a one-day discussion-oriented workshop, with theme-based tracks of paper presentations, a panel aimed at stimulating discussions, and working groups of participants. The workshop invites research papers (exploratory, empirical and solution) and industrial papers (experience reports, case studies and current practices and challenges).
We invite you to submit research papers on Ethics in Software Engineering. The topics of interest include but not limited to:
In all categories it is possible to submit:
The paper must describe original work that has not been previously published or submitted elsewhere with the exception of journal-first. Submissions must be written in English. The format of your paper must strictly adhere to the IEEEtran Proceedings Format. There are several versions of the IEEE style. Please make sure you use exactly the versions that are linked below.
LaTeX users: please use the LaTeX class file IEEEtran v1.8 (CTAN archive) and the following configuration (without option ‘compsoc’ or ‘compsocconf’):
\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
Microsoft word users: please use the word template (see also its pdf file).
Please submit your paper via the following easychair link: submission link
All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three members of the program committee and selected based on workshop relevance, academic rigor (only research papers), innovation, industrial applicability, and quality of writing. Accepted papers (except journal-first) will appear in the workshop program and will be published in IEEE Digital Library. At least one author is required to register and participate during the workshop.
University of Hamburg, Germany
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Bŏgaziçi University,Turkey
Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar
The workshop will be fully online on Friday, June 4th 2021. Authors and participants need a registration in advance. For registration, please refer to the ICSE'21 registration page.
Session | Time (CET) | Program | Responsible | Session Chair |
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Opening | 13:30-13:40 | Workshop Overview | SEthics2021 Workshop chairs | |
Keynote | 13:40-14:45 | Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future - An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies. The talk will analyse what the use of the ecosystem metaphor means for the evaluation of ethical issues of smart information systems and which conclusions can be drawn from it and how these can inform recommendations for policymakers and other stakeholders. The presentation is based on the material developed in a book with the same title, which is freely available here. |
Prof. Dr. Bernd Stahl, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR) in Demontfort University, UK | Farnaz Fotrousi |
Break | 14:45-15:00 | --- | ||
Paper Presentation | 15:00-15:20 | Ethical Lapses Create Complicated and Problematic Software | Michael Dorin, Sergio Montenegro | Deepika Badampudi |
15:20-15:40 | Exploring the Assessment List for Trustworthy AI in the Context of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems | Markus Borg, Joshua Bronson, Linus Christensson, Fredrik Olsson, Olof Lennartsson, Elias Sonnsjö, Hamid Ebabi, Martin Karsberg | ||
15:40- 16:00 | Is there a "software engineering ethics"? Comparing commercial and research software engineering | Graham Lee | ||
Break | 16:00-16:15 | --- | ||
Paper Presentation | 16:15-16:35 | Towards Ethical Data-Driven Software: Filling the Gaps in Ethics Research & Practice | Brittany Johnson, Justin Smith | Basak Aydemir |
16:35- 16:55 | Four Opportunities for SE Ethics Education | Alicia M. Grubb | ||
16:55-17:15 | Authorship ethics: an overview of research on the state of practice | Nasir Mehmood Minhas | ||
Break | 17:15- 17:30 | --- | ||
Working Group | 17:30 - 18:10 | Ethics in Software Engineering Research | All participants | Deepika Badampudi and Farnaz Fotrousi |
Panel Discussion | 18:10- 18:55 | Software for Behavioral Mining and Change: The Ethical Dilemma | Gopal Ramchurn, Dena Al-Thani, Bernd Stahl | Raian Ali |
Closing | 18:55-19:00 | SEthics2021 Closing | SEthics2021 workshop chairs |
If you have some Questions or need Help! Please Contact Us!
farnaz.fotrousi@ uni-hamburg.de
deepika.badampudi@ bth.se