Food is an essential element of our lives, cultures, and a crucial part of human experience. The study of food purchases can drive the design of practical services such as...

GeoTopics is a system to explore geographical patterns of urban activity. The system collects publicly shared check-ins generated by Foursquare users, that reveal who spends...

Impact assessments have received particular attention on both sides of the Atlantic as a tool for implementing algorithmic accountability. The aim of this paper is to address...

WAT is an entity linker, namely a tool that identifies meaningful substrings (called "spots") in an unstructured English text and link each of them to the unambiguous entity...

Computers are increasingly used to make decisions that have significant impact on people's lives. Often, these predictions can affect different population subgroups...

Trajectory Builder is an Algorithm to reconstruct trajectories from spatio-temporal observation according to specific user constraints.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being deployed in missions that are increasingly critical for human life. To build trust in AI and avoid an algorithm-based authoritarian...

An ever-increasing number of decisions affecting our lives are made by algorithms. For this reason, algorithmic transparency is becoming a pressing need: automated decisions...

The Premise, the Proposed Solutions, and the Open Challenges The combination of increased availability of large amounts of fine-grained human behavioral data and advances in...

This is a method to filter a large complex network to its backbone structure, by means of statistical hypothesis testing. This method is available as a downloadable software...

Formenti, D, Trecroci, A, Duca, M, Vanoni, M, Ciovati, M, Rossi, A, and Alberti, G. Volleyball-specific skills and cognitive functions can discriminate players of different...

We present an approach to explain the decisions of black-box image classifiers through synthetic exemplar and counter-exemplar learnt in the latent feature space. Our...

This code contains two Mathematica notebooks to find the polarizing opinion vectors given the social graph and the nodes’ susceptibility. The notebooks have to be saved in the...

TripBuilder is a mobile service helping tourists to build their own personalized sightseeing tour of a city. Given a targeted touristic area, the time available for the visit,...

Urbanization is a great challenge for modern societies, promising better access to economic opportunities, but widening socioeconomic inequalities. Accurately tracking this...

Evaluating local explanation methods is a difficult task due to the lack of a shared and universally accepted definition of explanation. In the literature, one of the most...

There has been a recent resurgence in the area of explainable artificial intelligence as researchers and practitioners seek to provide more transparency to their algorithms....

Our method analyzes the potential impact of carpooling as a collective phenomenon emerging from people׳s mobility, by network analytics. Based on big mobility data from...

The proliferation of fake news is a current issue that influences a number of important areas of society, such as politics, economy and health. In the Natural Language...

Several philosophical issues in connection with computer simulations rely on the assumption that results of simulations are trustworthy. Examples of these include the debate...