Funding

Disciplines: All

The DASS program solicits research proposals that will make fundamental contributions towards understanding and formalizing the bi-directional relationship between software systems and the complex legal and social environment in which they arise and must operate. The DASS program aims to bring researchers in computer and information sciences and engineering together with researchers in law, and social, behavioral, and economic sciences to jointly develop rigorous and reproducible methodologies for understanding the drivers of social goals for software and for designing, implementing, and validating accountable software systems. DASS encourages strong collaboration between these two groups of researchers. The first group consists of researchers in software design, which, for the purposes of this solicitation, is broadly defined as formal methods, programming languages, software engineering, requirements engineering, and human-centered computing. The second group consists of researchers in law and the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, who study social systems and networks, culture, social norms and beliefs, rules, canons, precedents, legal code, and routine procedures that govern the conduct of people, organizations, and countries.

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