Although algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, we struggle understand the real-world impact of these audits and continue find it difficult translate such independent assessments into meaningful corporate accountability. To analyze publicly naming disclosing performance results biased AI systems, investigate commercial Gend...

In this paper, we present some of our ongoing, as well as more recent work designing, implementing, and improving three tools to help university instructors and department leaders make evidence-based improvements to instruction. The first tool, Know Your Students, is a very early prototype that helps instructors tailor their instruction based on characteristics of the students they would not ot...

The NOMAD project (Policy Formulation and Validation through non Moderated Crowd-sourcing) is a project that supports policy making, by providing rich, actionable information related to how citizens perceive different policies. NOMAD automatically analyzes citizen contributions to the informal web (e.g. forums, social networks, blogs, newsgroups and wikis) using a variety of tools. These tools ...

This paper describes how to involve end users without expertise in programming in a session where they will be asked to accomplish some tasks according to a new paradigm for actionable mashups. The goal will be to understand what the advantages of this new paradigm are with respect to traditional methods for mashup composition and information exploration.

Automatically extracting actionable knowledge from on line social media has attracted a growing interest from both academia and the industry. However, little clarity exists in relation to what actionable knowledge is, whether it can be measured and where it is more likely to be found. This paper makes an attempt at answering the above questions by gaining a better understanding of actionable kn...

This document discusses the role of "actionable" identifiers such as the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) in enabling scholarly citations in a digital environment. Citation is a sub-set of the general wider concept of linkage, but an interesting one for two reasons: it is a practical example being worked on today, and it demonstrates that linkage only between digital entities is insufficient for...

Increased understanding of intertumoral heterogeneity at the genomic level has led to significant advancements in the treatment of solid tumors. Functional genomic alterations conferring sensitivity to targeted therapies can take many forms, and appropriate methods and tools are needed to detect these alterations. This review provides an update on genetic variability among solid tumors of simil...

Viruses, Trojan horses, worms, back doors, spoofing, DoS attacks, and other cyber-security threats are now part of everyone’s computer vocabulary. What’s next? For all of its promise, the Internet of Things is likely to become the greatest challenge for security technology to date, defying conventional security solutions, paradigms, and tools. The Internet of Things is a global revolution in wh...

This article examines the work of a Knowledge Manager according to the strategy implemented at Lafarge, the global leader in construction materials. The aim is to show how a global company uses a knowledge management strategy to create value for stakeholders, provide a local access to know-how, offer tools for actionable decision making and builds a knowledge sharing culture among divisions. It...

This paper proposes an algorithm to discover novel association rules, combined association rules. Compared with conventional association rule, this combined association rule allows users to perform actions directly. Combined association rules are always organized as rule sets, each of which is composed of a number of single combined association rules. These single rules consist of non-actionabl...