Call for Papers

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: October 9, 2020, Anywhere on Earth
• Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2020

We welcome submissions of 4-6 pages (excluding references) following the NeurIPS style guide. Submissions should be non-anonymous. All accepted papers will be presented as posters (recently published or under-review work is also welcome). The accepted papers will be made available online on the workshop website; however, there will be no archival proceedings. Papers should be submitted via CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WCDMDE2020.

Technical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Performativity: strategic behavior, gaming, incentivization
• Algorithmic mechanism design to incentivize long-term improvement
• Long-term equilibrium outcomes of short-term decisions
• Incorporating causal inference into long-term structural dynamics models
• Policy learning and evaluation for social welfare
• Robustness and stability under dynamic or adaptive distribution shifts
• Feedback loops in recommenders, filter bubbles, echo chambers
• Adaptive data analysis
• Understanding the consequences of predictions when acted upon by humans
• Prevalence and importance of different dynamic effects in real-world settings