We’re excited to share that the paper City Sampling for Citizens’ Assemblies, co-authored by Jan Maly alongside Paul Gölz, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin, Markus Utke, and Philipp C. Verpoort, has been accepted to AAAI. The work tackles a timely challenge: how to design sampling methods that fairly and efficiently select participants for citizens’ assemblies, an increasingly important

From 8-12 September, Hanna Kern attended the 4th ACM Europe Digital Humanism Summer School in Vienna. The week had many interesting sessions, including talks by George Metakides, Erich Prem, and Victoria Dignum. A highlight of the week was the talk by Francesco Ricci on recommender systems which was interestingly related to sparse/incomplete preferences, something Hanna

Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie entscheiden mit, wofür Ihre Stadt Geld ausgibt: für Spielplätze, Radwege oder Kultur. Klingt nach Utopie? - ist längst Realität. Doch wie fair sind diese Verfahren? Darüber d...

Marta Sabou erhält eine renommierte Förderung des Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds für Forschung an Knowlege Graphs für KI-Anwendungen.

Hanna Kern visits the University of Warsaw From 30 June to 29 August, I (Hanna Kern) had the pleasure of visiting Piotr Skowron at the University of Warsaw. There he is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics. His research interests lie in the field of computational social choice, in particular

From 22.09-25.09, we had the pleasure of hosting two inspiring visitors, Feline Lindeboom and Anton Baychkov. Feline is PhD student at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen under the supervision of Davide Grossi and Pradeep Murukannaiah. She works primarily within the field of (computational) social choice, combining elements from mathematics, theoretical computer science, (political) philosophy and economics, to ask

Human-centred automation with positive societal impact

Human-centred automation with positive societal impact

Human-centred automation with positive societal impact