Zahid Sherzad

A social science agenda for studying the impacts of algorithmic decision-making

AI and algorithmic decision-making tools already influence many aspects of our lives and are likely to become increasingly embedded within businesses and governments. Drawing on recent research and examples from across the social sciences, Frederic Gerdon and Frauke Kreuter outline where and how social science is vital to the ethical use of algorithmic decision-making systems.

WISS at DaWaK2020

DaWak, the annual International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery, is a high-quality forum for researchers, practitioners and developers in the field of Big Data Analytics, in a broad sense. This year, at DaWak2020, WISS contributed with a paper co-authord by Dr Maral Dadvar and Prof. Dr. Kai Eckert on Cyberbullying Detection in …

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Paper accepted for KGSWC 2022

Our paper “Easy and complex: new perspectives for metadata modeling using RDF-star and Named Graphs” just got accepted for the Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference. The research emerged collaboratively from the CAIUS and the Judaicalink project. The paper presents three patterns for meta-layer modeling using RDF-star and Named Graphs. Here is the full abstract: …

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Consequences of Artificial Intelligence for Urban Societies

The project “Consequences of Artificial Intelligence for Urban Societies: Using Impact-Aware AI to Make Smart Cities Socially Equitable (CAIUS)” is exploring the benefits and risks of using AI systems in the context of smart cities. It is funded by the Volkswagen Foundatation and is conducted together with researchers from Mannheim University. The funding amount is …

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Paper accepted for the Data Science Journal

Our paper “Persistent Identification for Conferences” just got accepted for the Data Science Journal. The paper is the result of a collaboration with TIB Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology, Hannover, RWTH Aachen and SpringerNature. It focuses on stake holders and use cases for persistent identifiers of scientific conferences. Here is the full abstract: …

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