Projects
Fairness in Allocation Problems KU Leuven
Deciding how indivisible units of a scarce resource should be assigned to people is a common problem in our society. We can make a distinction between settings where it is inappropriate to use monetary transfers to settle this, and settings where a payment is used to acquire the resource or compensate those who get nothing. Examples of the former are assigning students to schools, deciding which patients can receive an organ transplant, ...
Fairness in Multilingual NLP KU Leuven
Fairness and Nature HOGENT
Fair MusE : Promoting Fairness of the Music Ecosystem in a Platform-Dominated and Post-Pandemic Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
thus leading to a more transparent, competitive and sustainable music ecosystem in Europe. Fair MusE focuses specifically on the
domination of online platforms and their algorithms and will investigate: (i) the legal responses that have been proposed in the EU; (ii)
the changes these platforms ...
Fairness of algorithm-use for predictive tax enforcement models: a psycho-legal perspective. University of Antwerp
Fairness in Reinforcement Learning for Allocation Problems. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
automated decision-making systems for real-world applications.
Decisions in the context of allocation problems, such as loan
granting, vaccine distribution, have a high societal impact and require
careful fairness considerations regarding the affected individuals and
groups. Additionally, such problems can evolve over time. Therefore,
it is ...
Looking for the optimal distance between police and bystander: Integrating ideas from construal level theory and the fairness literature to prevent bystander conflict. KU Leuven
In recent decades, there have been increasing numbers of bystander conflicts against Police Officers (POs). Bystander conflict occurs when civilians who are present in police work, but not directly involved, interfere with police action during the primary intervention (Van Erp ea 2015). These types of conflict put a lot of pressure on the police force and create unforeseen stressors in a police-citizen encounter because they are relatively ...
Backup mandate Research Council: Extending Fairness to Reinforcement Learning Policies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
solved through the use of supervised learning algorithms, some tasks require a different approach. Reinforcement Learning (RL) allows an algorithm to learn by trial-and-error rather ...
Fairness Theory and Culturally Responsive Counseling: Enhancing the Therapeutic Alliance in Cross-Cultural Therapy Ghent University
In the current research project we focus on the implementation of culturally responsive practices and skills in cross-cultural therapy dyads. We examine the role of fairness in both broaching and ongoing receptivity towards cultural and ethnic topics in psychotherapy. Lastly, the newly gained expertise is brought together to design the building blocks of an evidence-based training module.