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Burkhard Schafer
Researcher at University of Edinburgh
Publications - 115
Citations - 1819
Burkhard Schafer is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Comparative law & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 104 publications receiving 1256 citations. Previous affiliations of Burkhard Schafer include Edinburgh College of Art.
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AI4People—An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations
Luciano Floridi,Luciano Floridi,Josh Cowls,Josh Cowls,Monica Beltrametti,Raja Chatila,Patrice Chazerand,Virginia Dignum,Virginia Dignum,Christoph Luetge,Robert Madelin,Ugo Pagallo,Francesca Rossi,Francesca Rossi,Burkhard Schafer,Peggy Valcke,Peggy Valcke,Effy Vayena +17 more
TL;DR: The core opportunities and risks of AI for society are introduced; a synthesis of five ethical principles that should undergird its development and adoption are presented; and 20 concrete recommendations are offered to serve as a firm foundation for the establishment of a Good AI Society.
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Algorithmic governance: Developing a research agenda through the power of collective intelligence:
John Danaher,Michael Hogan,Chris Noone,Rónán Kennedy,Anthony Behan,Aisling de Paor,Heike Felzmann,Muki Haklay,Su-ming Khoo,John Morison,Maria Helen Murphy,Niall O'Brolchain,Burkhard Schafer,Kalpana Shankar +13 more
TL;DR: The workshop brought together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider barriers to legitimate and effective algorithmic governance and the research methods needed to address the nature and impact of specific barriers, and produced a framework and research agenda for those who are concerned aboutgorithmic governance.
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Concept and Context in Legal Information Retrieval
TL;DR: Recall within the context of precision is proposed as a better fit to law than the 'total recall' model of the past, wherein conceptual and contextual search are combined to improve retrieval performance for both parties in a dispute.
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Knowledge based crime scenario modelling
Jeroen Keppens,Burkhard Schafer +1 more
TL;DR: A novel knowledge driven methodology for crime scenario construction and it presents a decision support system based on it, which works by storing the component events of the scenarios instead of entire scenarios and by providing an algorithm that can instantiate and compose these component events into useful scenarios.
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A scenario-driven decision support system for serious crime investigation
TL;DR: This paper presents a system for creating scenario spaces from given evidence, based on an integrated application of techniques for compositional modelling and Bayesian network-based evidence evaluation, and methods of analysis provided by the use of entropy to exploit the synthesized scenario spaces in order to prioritize investigating actions and hypotheses.