2015 Proceeding- General Chair:
- Ben Zevenbergen
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the full day workshop titled "Ethics in Networked Systems Research" at the ACM SIGCOMM Conference 2015 in London. This workshop builds on a series of workshops held in various places in 2015 and will continue the tradition to bring together two distinct groups of researchers:
Computer scientists, network scientists and other technical researchers who are interested in the ethical and legal aspects of their work;
Researchers studying the various ethical, social scientific and legal aspects of data-driven projects in the field of computer and data communication networks.
The call for submissions for summaries of projects or ideas in this cross-disciplinary area has attracted a many short papers, the topics and themes of which will influence the proceedings of the day. All submissions have been accepted due to the overall high quality as well as the relevant topics they raise.
The workshop will be highly interactive. Several authors will be asked to give short presentations of their submissions, and others will be invited to respond briefly. These sessions will lead into interactive discussions in smaller groups, which will lead to concrete outcomes. The aim of the day is to have in-depth discussions about the ethics of computer science, network engineering, Internet measurement, and related fields. The outcomes will be an increased inter-disciplinary understanding of the issues for participants, as well as significant community initiated contributions to tools, guidelines, and other initiatives that are currently being developed to support ethical decision making in networked systems research.
Proceeding Downloads
Forgive Us our SYNs: Technical and Ethical Considerations for Measuring Internet Filtering
We provide an overview of technical and ethical considerations for measuring Internet filtering, focusing on client-side and network side channel techniques. Client-side measurements are any measurement that relies on software deployed on a network ...
Does the Internet Deserve Everybody?
There has been a long standing tradition amongst developed nations of influencing, both directly and indirectly, the activities of developing economies. Behind this is one of a range of aims: building/improving living standards, bettering the social ...
Ethical Challenges in the MOSAIC 2B project
The MOSAIC 2B project aims to unleash business opportunities for micro-entrepreneurs in rural areas of South Africa by providing them with entertainment and educational media content. For this purpose, the cinema-in-a-backpack kit is able to receive and ...
Some Challenges for Ethics in Social Network Research
Social network sites (SNSes) comprise one of the most popular networked applications of late, with hundreds of millions of users. Collecting and analysing data from such systems creates myriad ethical issues and challenges for researchers both in ...
Ethical Concerns for Censorship Measurement
Based on our experiences in measuring censorship in several projects, we frame various ethical questions and challenges that we have encountered. We offer this short document to highlight open questions that we view as important to consider when ...
Cyber Research Ethics Decision Support (CREDS) Tool
This work introduces an applied research and development project, the Cyber Research Ethics Decision Support (CREDS) tool. This effort is motivated to operationalize a decision support methodology, conceptual framework, and an interactive online tool to ...
High Fidelity, High Risk, High Reward: Using High-Fidelity Networking Data in Ethically Sound Research
Network tap data can provide researchers with access to every packet flowing into or out of an organization. However, building a sound ethical framework around using this data is a necessary task before the community can embrace this data source. Here ...
RoboCode-Ethicists: Privacy-friendly robots, an ethical responsibility of engineers?
This contribution addresses the privacy implications of robots. Two aspects are of fundamental concern in this context: the pervasiveness and intrusiveness of robots on the one hand and a general lack of awareness and knowledge about how robots work, ...
Ethical Challenges in Collaborative Storytelling
Collaborative storytelling using user generated audio-visual narratives is becoming a popular medium for creative social sharing, hyper-local TV, and collective awareness. Through two storytelling user experiments, we recognized that the challenges ...
Addressing Ethical Considerations in Network Measurement Papers: Abstract
We explore the benefits of requiring measurement papers to include an ethical considerations section. We focus our attention on what specific questions such a section should answer and how to keep the section simple and easy to write for measurement ...
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- Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research
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Acceptance Rates
| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| NS Ethics '15 | 11 | 11 | 100% |
| Overall | 11 | 11 | 100% |