Section: Application Domains

Social Computing Systems

Social computing systems are online digital systems that use personal data of their users at their core to deliver personalized services directly to the users. They are omnipresent and include for instance recommendation systems, social networks, online medias, daily apps, etc. Despite their interest and utility for users, these systems pose critical challenges of privacy, security, transparency, and respect of certain ethical constraints such as fairness. Solving these challenges involves a mix of measurement and/or audit to understand and assess issues, and modeling and optimization to propose and calibrate solutions.