Ndlib is a Network diffusion library that contains a set of models to simulate disease spreading and opinion dynamics.

The proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on data governance is the first of a set of measures announced in the 2020 European strategy for...

Artificial Intelligence is developing fast. It will change our lives by improving healthcare (e.g. making diagnosis more precise, enabling better prevention of diseases),...

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...

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

The limits of data protection and anti-discrimination in responding to emergent discrimination The potential for biases being built into algorithms has been known for some time...

A growing body of research emphasises the role of ‘social determinants of health’ in generating inequalities in health outcomes. How, if at all, should primary care providers...

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...

In Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari argues that technological advances of the twenty-first century will usher in a significant shift in how humans make important life decisions....

Recidivism prediction instruments (RPIs) provide decision-makers with an assessment of the likelihood that a criminal defendant will reoffend at a future point in time....

An Analytic Road Map to Examine Efficiency and Fairness in Automated and Opaque Decision Making We are currently witnessing a sharp rise in the use of algorithmic...

This dataset contains information about 90,269 users and 3,646,662 friendship links between those users. These users belong to the New Orleans Facebook regional network. The...

Online interactions between users via the wall feature in the New Orleans regional network.

This dataset is obtained from the 2012 WISE Challenge: built upon the logs of the popular Chinese micro-blog service WEIBO, its interactions represent mentions of users in...

This (link to the) dataset contains product reviews and metadata from Amazon, including 142.8 million reviews spanning May 1996 - July 2014. This dataset includes reviews...

"Big Data" and data-mined inferences are affecting more and more of our lives, and concerns about their possible discriminatory effects are growing. Methods for...

Many of the computing systems programmed using Machine Learning are opaque: it is difficult to know why they do what they do or how they work. Explainable Artificial...

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...

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...

This article presents the first, systematic analysis of the ethical challenges posed by recommender systems through a literature review. The article identifies six areas of...