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most citedExtending Causal Models from Machines into Humans

4 citations · 8 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.SE20221 cited

Big data ethics, machine ethics or information ethics? Navigating the maze of applied ethics in IT

Niina Zuber, Severin Kacianka, Jan Gogoll

Digitalization efforts are rapidly spreading across societies, challenging new and important ethical issues that arise from technological development. Software developers, designer…

cs.SE20211 cited

Empowered and Embedded: Ethics and Agile Processes

Niina Zuber, Severin Kacianka, Jan Gogoll +2

In this article we focus on the structural aspects of the development of ethical software, and argue that ethical considerations need to be embedded into the (agile) software devel…

cs.SE2021

Designing Accountable Systems

Severin Kacianka, Alexander Pretschner

Accountability is an often called for property of technical systems. It is a requirement for algorithmic decision systems, autonomous cyber-physical systems, and for software syste…

cs.SE2020

Ethics in the Software Development Process: From Codes of Conduct to Ethical Deliberation

Jan Gogoll, Niina Zuber, Severin Kacianka +3

Software systems play an ever more important role in our lives and software engineers and their companies find themselves in a position where they are held responsible for ethical…

cs.SE20202 cited

Expressing Accountability Patterns using Structural Causal Models

Severin Kacianka, Amjad Ibrahim, Alexander Pretschner

While the exact definition and implementation of accountability depend on the specific context, at its core accountability describes a mechanism that will make decisions transparen…

cs.AI20194 cited

Extending Causal Models from Machines into Humans

Severin Kacianka, Amjad Ibrahim, Alexander Pretschner +2

Causal Models are increasingly suggested as a means to reason about the behavior of cyber-physical systems in socio-technical contexts. They allow us to analyze courses of events a…