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CodeTransBenchmark: Evaluating LLM-based Code Translation and Repair Across Programming Languages
Vera Kowalczuk, Oliver Weißl, Severin Kacianka +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) pre-trained on expansive text and code corpora have revealed promising code generation abilities and have attracted increasing attention in code transl…
HyperNet-Adaptation for Diffusion-Based Test Case Generation
Oliver Weißl, Vincenzo Riccio, Severin Kacianka +1
The increasing deployment of deep learning systems requires systematic evaluation of their reliability in real-world scenarios. Traditional gradient-based adversarial attacks intro…
Targeted Deep Learning System Boundary Testing
Oliver Weißl, Amr Abdellatif, Xingcheng Chen +4
Evaluating the behavioral boundaries of deep learning (DL) systems is crucial for understanding their reliability across diverse, unseen inputs. Existing solutions fall short as th…
Towards Equitable Agile Research and Development of AI and Robotics
Andrew Hundt, Julia Schuller, Severin Kacianka
Machine Learning (ML) and 'Artificial Intelligence' ('AI') methods tend to replicate and amplify existing biases and prejudices, as do Robots with AI. For example, robots with faci…
Robots Enact Malignant Stereotypes
Andrew Hundt, William Agnew, Vicky Zeng +2
Stereotypes, bias, and discrimination have been extensively documented in Machine Learning (ML) methods such as Computer Vision (CV) [18, 80], Natural Language Processing (NLP) [6]…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Real-Time Remote IDS Testbed for Connected Vehicles
Valentin Zieglmeier, Severin Kacianka, Thomas Hutzelmann +1
Connected vehicles are becoming commonplace. A constant connection between vehicles and a central server enables new features and services. This added connectivity raises the likel…
Understanding and Formalizing Accountability for Cyber-Physical Systems
Severin Kacianka, Alexander Pretschner
Accountability is the property of a system that enables the uncovering of causes for events and helps understand who or what is responsible for these events. Definitions and interp…
Towards a Unified Model of Accountability Infrastructures
Severin Kacianka, Florian Kelbert, Alexander Pretschner
Accountability aims to provide explanations for why unwanted situations occurred, thus providing means to assign responsibility and liability. As such, accountability has slightly…