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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…
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…
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…
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…