Nadine Barrett-Maitland and Jenice Lynch (February 5th 2020). Social Media, Ethics and the Privacy Paradox [Online First], IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.90906. 

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We are living in a time where the digital transformation of media has contributed to the ubiquitous dissemination of fake facts and a credibility crisis with news media. News are generated today differently, increasingly automating the process using machine intelligence, and news are generated by different actors, with social media enabling everyone, including malicious actors, to become the source of news. These developments have fuelled an inflation of fake news.

We will first review some of the key developments that affect today the space of news media. Then we turn our attention to the question of how we can address some of the problems using technology, in particular artificial intelligence. The first problem we consider will be news bias. We show that bias exists in various forms and outline methods to fight it. The second problem we consider will be fake news, in particular in the science domain. We will introduce our approach and platform for evaluating the quality of scientific news articles employing automated methods. These efforts are in our view critical in helping to reestablish trusted news channels and give citizen a chance to obtain truthful and unbiased information in the future.

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Making News Credible Again

AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 as the merging of three respected scientific meetings: the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS), the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL), and the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally-respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.

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AAMAS 2020

AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 as the merging of three respected scientific meetings: the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS), the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL), and the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). 

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The purpose of the International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. The conference has five main tracks, covering different aspects of Web Information Systems, namely Internet Technology, Web Interfaces and Applications, Society, e-Communities, e-Business, Web Intelligence and Mobile Information Systems. WEBIST focuses on real world applications; therefore authors should highlight the benefits of Web Information Systems and Technologies for industry and services, in addition to academic applications. Ideas on how to solve business problems using web-based information systems and technologies, will be discussed at the conference.

CONFERENCE AREAS
1 . INTERNET TECHNOLOGY
2 . WEB INTELLIGENCE and SEMANTIC WEB
3 . SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYTICS
4 . HCI in MOBILE SYSTEMS and WEB INTERFACES

The purpose of the International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. The conference has five main tracks, covering different aspects of Web Information Systems, namely Internet Technology, Web Interfaces and Applications, Society, e-Communities, e-Business, Web Intelligence and Mobile Information Systems. WEBIST focuses on real world applications; therefore authors should highlight the benefits of Web Information Systems and Technologies for industry and services, in addition to academic applications. 

For most people, the dominating sense they use to interact with the Web is their eye sight.
However, web site providers do neither understand very well what users see when they look at their web site nor can they help the user to exploit her eye sight as an interaction modality. While eye tracking devices have become commercial commodity products, what has been lacking is the contextualized understanding of eye sight. Web browsers are almost unique software applications as they require an (almost) declarative representation of the user interface. We have engineered solutions that map eye traces and fixations onto interface regions and interaction widgets.
In the EU project Mamem we have used such mappings to facilitate hands-free Web interaction, especially for motor-impaired individuals. In collaboration with the company EyeVido, we use these mappings to mine user viewing behavior. We envision that eye sight will become a major interaction modality for the Web in the future, but for this we also suggest that Web browsers remain transparent, declarative-oriented applications that are so accessible and modifiable that we can develop methods that involve all our senses.

Eyeing The Web

Information Systems have been moved into the cloud for many years and recently also into more distributed edge and IoT environments. In addition, applications have become more mobile. In this presentation, I will address engineering techniques that help to migrate and let run software effectively and efficiently in these environments. Software architecture, both from a structural but also a dynamic perspective, is crucial here. The role that microservices and containers as units of development and deployment play shall be investigated. Patterns can help to frame these in terms of the structural architecture. From a more dynamic perspective, systems become more dynamic and are often (self)-adaptive. DevOps for more rapid, automated release cycles is a solution for continuous evolution, as are controllers for more autonomous and immediate adaptation.The increasingly important management of performance and dependability, but also trust in these distributed, heterogeneous environments shall also be discussed in this presentation.

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