Assessing the Fairness of AI Recruitment systems

Businesses have leveraged Artificial Intelligence (AI) into many of their operational activities such as marketing, sales, and finance for its speed and cost-effectiveness. Lately, AI has also found applications in organizational recruitment processes. Unlike the conventional rule-based systems, present-day AI systems learn from data patterns...

Yes to Agreements, Yes to Interventions, Yes to Solar Panels: Formalization of an Agent-based Model to Model the Solar Adoption Rate and Explore the Effect of Governmental Interventions

Resisting The Iron Law of Oligarchy: case of community energy system

The iron law of oligarchy claims that the complex organisation will always end up in an oligarchy, no matter it was constituted originally. In that sense, the oligarchy should also happen in the Community Energy System (CES) as a complex self-govern common-pool resource system. The oligarchy situation raises the issue of the fairness and the...

Tooling as a Service: Agent Based Scenario Development for IT Services Delivery

Information Technology [IT] is increasingly being integrated into the modern society. Novel IT solutions are Cloud based. Cloud solutions from Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS are examples of services which offer the benefits of cloud computing. For IT providers, leveraging novel IT artefacts may require the development of a new service model. IT...

Agency perception and moral values related to Autonomous Weapons: An empirical study using the Value-Sensitive Design approach

The purpose of this empirical study is to gain insight in how Autonomous Weapons are perceived by the general public and the military and which moral values they consider important when Autonomous Weapons are deployed in the near future. The Value-Sensitive Design method is used to structure the study. This thesis proposes a design for a Moral...