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• September 2024 SIAS group is extending. Gabi Franco, Ece Erdem and Madhura Pawar are joining as PhD students to work under the supervision of Fernando Santos. Welcome dear Gabi, Eve and Madhura!

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• September 2024 Sennay Ghebreab interview in PocaTV with Aldith Hunkar on Bias on AI  

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• July, 2024 Two papers accepted at ECAI!

  • ​Learning in Multi-Objective Public Goods Games with Non-Linear Utilities, by Nicole Orzan, Erman Acar, Davide Grossi, Patrick Mannion and Roxana Radulescu

  • Artificial Agents Facilitate Human Cooperation through Indirect Reciprocity by Alexandre S. Pires and Fernando P. Santos

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• June 2024 Our group is extending. Marta Couto (formerly a PhD student at MPI for Evolutionary Biology) joining SIAS group as a postdoc to work with Fernando Santos. Welcome Marta!

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• May, 2024​ ALA 2024 best paper runner up! for the paper Learning in Public Good Games with Non-linear Utilities: A Multi-objective approach by Nicole Orzan, Erman Acar,  Davide Grossi  and  Roxana Radulescu

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• May 2024  The paper Tackling school segregation with transportation network interventions: an agent-based modelling approach by Dimitris Michailidis, Mayesha Tasnim, Sennay Ghebreab and Fernando P. Santos is accepted at the journal of JAAMAS (Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems)  Special Issue on Citizen-Centric AI Systems.

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• May, 2024 The paper Simplicity Bias in Human-generated Data by Jean-Louis Desalles and Giovanni Sileno is accepted at CogSCI'24

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• April 2024 Two papers accepted in XAI World Conference 2024!

  • ​CAGE: Causality-Aware Shapley Value for Global Explanations by Nils Ole Breuer, Andreas Sauter Majid Mohammadi and Erman Acar 

  • Explainable Fraud Detection with Deep Symbolic Classification by Samantha Visbeek, Erman Acar and Floris den Hengst

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• April 2024  IJCAI paper acceptance. The paper Learning Fair Cooperation in Mixed-Motive Games with Indirect Reciprocity by Martin Smit and Fernando P. Santos​ is accepted at IJCAI 2024!

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• April 2024 The paper Analysing and Organising Human Communications for AI Fairness-Related Decisions: Use Cases from the Public Sector by  Mirthe Dankloff, Vanja Skoric, Giovanni Sileno, Sennay Ghebreab, Jacco Van Ossenbruggen, Emma Beauxis-Aussalet is accepted in the journal of AI & Society.

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• February 2024 The paper Roles of Standardised Criteria in Assessing Societal Impact of AI by Vanja Scoria, Giovanni Sileno and Sennay Ghebreab is accepted in IEEE conference on AI, 2024.

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• January, 2024 Two papers accepted at AAMAS 2024!

  • Emergent Cooperation under Uncertain Incentive Alignment by Nicole Orzan (RUG), Erman Acar (UVA) and Davide Grossi (RUG) and Roxana Rădulescu​

  • ​CORE: Towards Scalable and Efficient Causal Discovery with Reinforcement Learning by  Andreas Sauter (VU),  Nicolo Botteghi (UT), Erman Acar (UVA) and Aske Plaat​

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• January 2024  Amsterdam Best AI Thesis Award 2023 has been rewarded to Samantha Visbeek Deep Symbolic Classification for Fraud Detection supervised by Erman Acar and Floris ten Hengst. It has also been accepted and presented by Samantha Visbeek at the workshop "Explainable AI in Finance" co-located at the International Conference for Artificial Intelligence (ICAIF'23) held in New York.