Topics 2023

For BEFAIR2 track

  • Methods for detecting algorithmic discrimination
  • Bias in machine learning process, including data collection, data preparation, modeling, evaluation, and deployment
  • Debiasing strategies for the legal domain
  • Ethical behavior from autonomous systems
  • Legal design, visual law and legal knowledge base visualization
  • Design justice and fairness by design
  • Differences and similarities between legal and moral reasoning
  • Ethics in data mining and argument mining from legal databases and texts
  • Fairness analysis on computer-assisted dispute resolution
  • Counterfactual reasoning for fairness
  • Algorithmic fairness and learning challenges
  • Demographic Parity, Equal Opportunity, Equalized Odds, Disparate Treatment,
  • Counterfactual Fairness, Fairness through Awareness, and other fairness definitions
  • The impossibility theorem of fairness definitions
  • Measurement and mitigation of unfairness in machine learning
  • Explainability, traceability, data and model lineage
  • Transparency and accountability as a fundamental design requirement for AI&L architectures

For EMAI track

  • Ethical issues in knowledge representation and legal reasoning
  • Formal and computational models of ethical reasoning in the legal domain (e.g. using argumentation frameworks, case-based reasoning)
  • Computational models of ethical decision making
  • Computational models of moral reasoning
  • Computational models of various ethical theories
  • Moral decision-making frameworks for legal artificial agents
  • Ethics, ontologies and legal knowledge representation
  • Experimental implementation of moral and ethical reasoning systems into AI driven devices
  • Transparency of ethical decision making
  • Value-based reasoning
  • Implementation of ethics in machine learning-based systems
  • Deep learning and data analytics applied to ethics in the legal domain
  • Integration of data- and knowledge-driven approaches to model ethical decision making
  • Argumentation with values
  • Ethical constraints for reinforcement learning models
  • Models of evaluation of cases in the light of different values