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20172020
most citedThe role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

3.2k citations · 3.3k across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CY2020★ 2 cited

Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment

Mirco Nanni, Gennady Andrienko, Albert-László Barabási +36

The rapid dynamics of COVID-19 calls for quick and effective tracking of virus transmission chains and early detection of outbreaks, especially in the phase 2 of the pandemic, when…

cs.OH2019★ 2 cited

Governance by Glass-Box: Implementing Transparent Moral Bounds for AI Behaviour

Andrea Aler Tubella, Andreas Theodorou, Virginia Dignum +1

Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are being used to predict and assess behaviour in multiple domains, such as criminal justice and consumer finance, which directly affect h…

cs.CY2019★ 3.2k cited

The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Ricardo Vinuesa, Hossein Azizpour, Iolanda Leite +7

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its progressively wider impact on many sectors across the society requires an assessment of its effect on sustainable development.…

cs.MA2018

Towards Agent-based Models of Rumours in Organizations: A Social Practice Theory Approach

Amir Ebrahimi Fard, Rijk Mercuur, Virginia Dignum +2

Rumour is a collective emergent phenomenon with a potential for provoking a crisis. Modelling approaches have been deployed since five decades ago; however, the focus was mostly on…

cs.MA2018★ 2 cited

Modelling Agents Endowed with Social Practices: Static Aspects

Rijk Mercuur, Virginia Dignum, Catholijn M. Jonker

To understand societal phenomena through simulation, we need computational variants of socio-cognitive theories. Social Practice Theory has provided a unique understanding of socia…

cs.AI2018★ 34 cited

A Logic of Agent Organizations

Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum

Organization concepts and models are increasingly being adopted for the design and specification of multi-agent systems. Agent organizations can be seen as mechanisms of social ord…

cs.AI2017

Responsible Autonomy

Virginia Dignum

As intelligent systems are increasingly making decisions that directly affect society, perhaps the most important upcoming research direction in AI is to rethink the ethical implic…