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United Nations set Sustainable Development Goals and this paper focuses on 7th (Affordable and Clean Energy), 9th (Industries, Innovation and Infrastructure), and 13th (Climate Action) goals. Climate change is a major concern in our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Alberto Pasqualetto , Lorenzo Serafini , Michele Sprocatti

Sustainability has been defined as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. But what are the needs of the present? And are they met? From the poor performance of the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-02 R. Vilela Mendes

International aid is a critical mechanism for promoting economic growth and well-being in developing nations, supporting progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, tracking aid contributions remains challenging due…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Sungwon Park , Dongjoon Lee , Kyeongjin Ahn , Yubin Choi , Junho Lee , Meeyoung Cha , Kyung Ryul Park

Explainable Recommender Systems (XRS) aim to provide users with understandable reasons for the recommendations generated by these systems, representing a crucial research direction in artificial intelligence (AI). Recent research has…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Weiqing Li , Yue Xu , Yuefeng Li , Yinghui Huang

The field of AI research is advancing at an unprecedented pace, enabling automated hypothesis generation and experimental design across diverse domains such as biology, mathematics, and artificial intelligence. Despite these advancements,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yaowenqi Liu , Bingxu Meng , Rui Pan , Yuxing Liu , Jerry Huang , Jiaxuan You , Tong Zhang

Recommendation systems and assistants (in short, recommenders) influence through online platforms most actions of our daily lives, suggesting items or providing solutions based on users' preferences or requests. This survey systematically…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds promise as a technology that can be used to improve government and economic policy-making. This paper proposes a new research agenda towards this end by introducing Social Environment Design, a general…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Edwin Zhang , Sadie Zhao , Tonghan Wang , Safwan Hossain , Henry Gasztowtt , Stephan Zheng , David C. Parkes , Milind Tambe , Yiling Chen

In requirements engineering for recommender systems, software engineers must identify the data that drives the recommendations. This is a labor-intensive task, which is error-prone and expensive. One possible solution to this problem is the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Ivens Portugal , Paulo Alencar , Donald Cowan

How can we design AI tools that effectively support human decision-making by complementing and enhancing users' reasoning processes? Common recommendation-centric approaches face challenges such as inappropriate reliance or a lack of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Leon Reicherts , Zelun Tony Zhang , Elisabeth von Oswald , Yuanting Liu , Yvonne Rogers , Mariam Hassib

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) bring together the diverse development community and provide a clear set of development targets for 2030. Given a large number of actors and initiatives related to these goals, there is a need to have a…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Lukas Pukelis , Nuria Bautista Puig , Mykola Skrynik , Vilius Stanciauskas

AI-powered educational technologies have demonstrated measurable benefits for learners, but their design and evaluation have largely centered on K-12 contexts. As a result, many AI-supported learning systems remain poorly aligned with the…

In this chapter we extend earlier work (Vinuesa et al., Nature Communications 11, 2020) on the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations (UN) for the 2030…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-02-16 B. Sirmacek , S. Gupta , F. Mallor , H. Azizpour , Y. Ban , H. Eivazi , H. Fang , F. Golzar , I. Leite , G. I. Melsion , K. Smith , F. Fuso Nerini , R. Vinuesa

Recommendations Systems allow users to identify trending items among a community while being timely and relevant to the user's expectations. When the purpose of various Recommendation Systems differs, the required type of recommendations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Dinuka Ravijaya Piyadigama , Guhanathan Poravi

This paper discusses a PhD research project testing the hypothesis that using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals(SDG) as explicit inputs to drive the Software Requirements Engineering process will result in requirements with…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Ian Brooks

We discuss our insights into interpretable artificial-intelligence (AI) models, and how they are essential in the context of developing ethical AI systems, as well as data-driven solutions compliant with the Sustainable Development Goals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Ricardo Vinuesa , Beril Sirmacek

Recommender systems use algorithms to provide users with product or service recommendations. Recently, these systems have been using machine learning algorithms from the field of artificial intelligence. However, choosing a suitable machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Ivens Portugal , Paulo Alencar , Donald Cowan

Recommender systems present a customized list of items based upon user or item characteristics with the objective of reducing a large number of possible choices to a smaller ranked set most likely to appeal to the user. A variety of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-02 William Noffsinger

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already driving scientific breakthroughs in a variety of research fields, ranging from the life sciences to mathematics. This raises a critical question: can AI be applied both responsibly and effectively to…

This paper addresses the challenge of selecting explanations for XAI (Explainable AI)-based Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSSs). IDSSs have shown promise in improving user decisions through XAI-generated explanations along with AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yosuke Fukuchi , Seiji Yamada

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has re-emerged in response to the development of modern AI and ML systems. These systems are complex and sometimes biased, but they nevertheless make decisions that impact our lives. XAI systems are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Shane T. Mueller , Elizabeth S. Veinott , Robert R. Hoffman , Gary Klein , Lamia Alam , Tauseef Mamun , William J. Clancey