@inproceedings{Brun18fse-nier,
 author = {Yuriy Brun and Alexandra Meliou},
 title =
 {\href{http://people.cs.umass.edu/brun/pubs/pubs/Brun18fse-nier.pdf}{Software
Fairness}},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Ideas and Emerging Results Track at the
 26th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium
 on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)},
 venue = {ESEC/FSE},
 address = {Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA},
 month = nov,
 date = {6--9},
 year = {2018},
 accept = {$\frac{14}{51} \approx 27\%$},

 abstract = {A goal of software engineering research is advancing software
 quality and the success of the software engineering process. However, while
 recent studies have demonstrated a new kind of defect in software related
 to its ability to operate in fair and unbiased manner, software engineering
 has not yet wholeheartedly tackled these new kinds of defects, thus leaving
 software vulnerable. This paper outlines a vision for how software
 engineering research can help reduce fairness defects and represents a call
 to action by the software engineering research community to reify that
 vision. Modern software is riddled with examples of biased behavior, from
 automated translation injecting gender stereotypes, to vision systems
 failing to see faces of certain races, to the US criminal justice sytem
 relying on biased computational assessments of crime recidivism. While
 systems may learn bias from biased data, bias can also emerge from
 ambiguous or incomplete requirement specification, poor design,
 implementation bugs, and unintended component interactions. We argue that
 software fairness is analogous to software quality, and that numerous
 software engineering challenges in the areas of requirements,
 specification, design, testing, and verification need to be tackled to
 solve this problem.},
 pages = {754--759},
 doi = {10.1145/3236024.3264838},
}