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  • Nome

    Sónia Carvalho Teixeira
  • Cluster

    Informática
  • Cargo

    Assistente de Investigação
  • Desde

    01 abril 2015
Publicações

2022

Humans Versus Machines: The Perspective of Two Different Approaches in Classification for Ethical Design

Autores
Teixeira, S; Rodrigues, J; Veloso, B; Gama, J;

Publicação
ERCIM NEWS

Abstract
This Portuguese project compares the classification of AI risks and vulnerabilities performed by humans and performed by the computing algorithms.

2022

An Exploratory Diagnosis of Artificial Intelligence Risks for a Responsible Governance

Autores
Teixeira, S; Rodrigues, J; Veloso, B; Gama, J;

Publicação
15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2022, Guimarães, Portugal, October 4-7, 2022

Abstract
Our lives have been increasingly filled with technologies that use Artificial Intelligence (AI), whether at home, in public spaces, in social organizations, or in services. Like other technologies, adopting this emerging technology also requires society's attention to the challenges that may arise from it. The media brought to the public some unexpected results from using these technologies, for example, the unfairness case in the COMPAS system. It became more evident that these technologies can have unintended consequences. In particular, in the public interest domain, these unintended consequences and their origin are a challenge for public policies, governance, and responsible AI. This work aims to identify the technological and ethical risks in data-driven decision systems based on AI and conduct a diagnosis of these risks and their perception. To do that, we use a triangulation of methods. In the first stage, a search on Web of Science has been performed. We consider all the 412 papers. The second stage corresponds to a analysis of experts. The papers have been classified according to the relevance to the topic by the experts. In the third stage, we use the survey method and include risk insights from stage two in our questions. We found 24 concerns which arise from the perspective of the ethical and technological risk perspective. The perception of participants regarding the level of concern they have with the risks of a data-driven system based on AI is high than their perception of society's concern. Fairness is considered the risk whose perception is more severe. Fairness, Bias, Accountability, Interpretability, and Explainability are considered the most relevant concepts for a responsible AI. Consequently, also the most relevant for responsible governance of AI. © 2022 ACM.

2022

Challenges of Data-Driven Decision Models: Implications for Developers and for Public Policy Decision-Makers

Autores
Teixeira, S; Rodrigues, JC; Veloso, B; Gama, J;

Publicação
Advances in Urban Design and Engineering

Abstract

2021

Hyper-parameter Optimization for Latent Spaces

Autores
Veloso, B; Caroprese, L; Konig, M; Teixeira, S; Manco, G; Hoos, HH; Gama, J;

Publicação
MACHINE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES, ECML PKDD 2021: RESEARCH TRACK, PT III

Abstract
We present an online optimization method for time-evolving data streams that can automatically adapt the hyper-parameters of an embedding model. More specifically, we employ the Nelder-Mead algorithm, which uses a set of heuristics to produce and exploit several potentially good configurations, from which the best one is selected and deployed. This step is repeated whenever the distribution of the data is changing. We evaluate our approach on streams of real-world as well as synthetic data, where the latter is generated in such way that its characteristics change over time (concept drift). Overall, we achieve good performance in terms of accuracy compared to state-of-the-art AutoML techniques.

2021

Improving Smart Waste Collection Using AutoML

Autores
Teixeira, S; Londres, G; Veloso, B; Ribeiro, RP; Gama, J;

Publicação
MACHINE LEARNING AND PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES, PT II

Abstract
The production and management of urban waste is a growing challenge and a consequence of our day-to-day resources and activities. According to the Portuguese Environment Agency, in 2019, Portugal produced 1% more tons compared to 2018. The proper management of this waste can be co-substantiated by existing policies, namely, national legislation and the Strategic Plan for Urban Waste. Those policies assess and support the amount of waste processed, allowing the recovery of materials. Among the solutions for waste management is the selective collection of waste. We improve the possibility of manage the smart waste collection of Paper, Plastic, and Glass packaging from corporate customers who joined a recycling program. We have data collected since 2017 until 2020. The main objective of this work is to increase the system's predictive performance, without any loss for citizens, but with improvement in the collection management. We analyze two types of problems: (i) the presence or absence of containers; and (ii) the prediction of the number of containers by type of waste. To carry out the analysis, we applied three machine learning algorithms: XGBoost, Random Forest, and Rpart. Additionally, we also use AutoML for XGBoost and Random Forest algorithms. The results show that with AutoML, generally, it is possible to obtain better results for classifying the presence or absence of containers by type of waste and predict the number of containers.