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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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Algorithmic governance: Developing a research agenda through the power of collective intelligence:

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

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.