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Seeing without knowing. Limitations of transparency and its application to al...
Models for understanding and holding systems accountable have long rested upon ideals and logics of transparency. Being able to see a system is sometimes equated with being able... -
Geo-semantic-parsing AI-powered geoparsing by traversing semantic knowledge g...
Online social networks convey rich information about geospatial facets of reality. However in most cases, geographic information is not explicit and structured, thus... -
Towards better social crisis data with HERMES Hybrid sensing for EmeRgency Ma...
People involved in mass emergencies increasingly publish information-rich contents in Online Social Networks (OSNs), thus acting as a distributed and resilient network of... -
Interaction Strength Analysis to Model Retweet Cascade Graphs
Tracking information diffusion is a non-trivial task and it has been widely studied across different domains and platforms. The advent of social media has led to even more... -
UTLDR: an agent-based framework for modelling infectious diseases and public ...
Nowadays, due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, epidemic modeling is experiencing a constantly growing interest from researchers of heterogeneous fields of study. Indeed, the vast...-
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Bias in algorithmic filtering and personalization
Online information intermediaries such as Facebook and Google are slowly replacing traditional media channels thereby partly becoming the gatekeepers of our society. To deal... -
AI and Big Data A blueprint for a human rights and social and ethical impact ...
Building on studies of the collective dimension of data protection, this article sets out to embed this new perspective in an assessment model centred on human rights (Human... -
An ethico-legal framework for social data science
This paper presents a framework for research infrastructures enabling ethically sensitive and legally compliant data science in Europe. Our goal is to describe how to design... -
Accountability for the Use of Algorithms in a Big Data Environment
Accountability is the ability to provide good reasons in order to explain and to justify actions, decisions, and policies for a (hypothetical) forum of persons or... -
Algorithmic Accountability and Public Reason
The ever-increasing application of algorithms to decision-making in a range of social contexts has prompted demands for algorithmic accountability. Accountable decision-makers... -
A Critical Reassessment of the Saerens-Latinne-Decaestecker Algorithm
We critically re-examine the Saerens-Latinne-Decaestecker (SLD) algorithm, a well-known method for estimating class prior probabilities (“priors”) and adjusting posterior... -
General confidentiality and utility metrics for privacy-preserving data publi...
Anonymization for privacy-preserving data publishing, also known as statistical disclosure control (SDC), can be viewed under the lens of the permutation model. According to... -
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council laying d...
Our remarks focus on two main issues: 1) providing operational tools to link the ethics and the legal dimension of a Trustworthy AI avoiding risks of ethics washing; 2) the... -
The Role of the GDPR in Designing the European Strategy on Artificial Intelli...
Starting from an analysis of the EU Reg. n. 2016/679 on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Author deals with the opportunity to translate the current strategies on...-
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Identifying and exploiting homogeneous communities in labeled networks
Attribute-aware community discovery aims to find well-connected communities that are also homogeneous w.r.t. the labels carried by the nodes. In this work, we address such a... -
Explaining misclassification and attacks in deep learning via random forests
Artificial intelligence, and machine learning (ML) in particular, is being used for different purposes that are critical for human life. To avoid an algorithm-based...-
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Big other Surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civiliz...
This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, ‘surveillance capitalism,’ and considers its implications for ‘information civilization.’ The... -
The fundamental rights challenges of algorithms
Algorithms form an increasingly important part of our daily lives, even if we are often unaware of it. They are enormously useful in many different ways. They facilitate the... -
Ethical Value Centric Cybersecurity. A Methodology Based on a Value Graph
Our society is being shaped in a non-negligible way by the technological advances of recent years, especially in information and communications technologies (ICTs). The... -
The democracy of emergency at the time of the coronavirus the virtues of privacy
The emergency of the Coronavirus imposes a cultural debate on the balancing of rights, freedoms and social responsibilities, finalized to the protection of individual and...
