Social Informatics
11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019, Doha, Qatar, November 18–21, 2019, Proceedings
Page
%P
-
Article
Open AccessBias-aware ranking from pairwise comparisons
Human feedback is often used, either directly or indirectly, as input to algorithmic decision making. However, humans are biased: if the algorithm that takes as input the human feedback does not control for po...
-
Article
Open AccessAn ultra-high-throughput screen for the evaluation of peptide HLA-Binder interactions
Peptide human leukocyte antigen (pHLA) targeting therapeutics like T-cell receptor based adoptive cell therapy or bispecific T cell engaging receptor molecules hold great promise for the treatment of cancer. C...
-
Article
Open AccessInequality and inequity in network-based ranking and recommendation algorithms
Though algorithms promise many benefits including efficiency, objectivity and accuracy, they may also introduce or amplify biases. Here we study two well-known algorithms, namely PageRank and Who-to-Follow (WT...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Answering Challenges in Oil Filter Systems for e-Axles and modern high efficient Transmissions
Modern drivetrain architectures that include e-Axles and hybrid transmissions require filtration solutions with higher demands to protect all system components and to reduce the energy consumption. MANN+HUMMEL...
-
Article
The future of human behaviour research
Human behaviour is complex and multifaceted, and is studied by a broad range of disciplines across the social and natural sciences. To mark our 5th anniversary, we asked leading scientists in some of the key d...
-
Article
Open AccessExplaining classification performance and bias via network structure and sampling technique
Social networks are very important carriers of information. For instance, the political leaning of our friends can serve as a proxy to identify our own political preferences. This explanatory power is leverage...
-
Article
Measuring algorithmically infused societies
It has been the historic responsibility of the social sciences to investigate human societies. Fulfilling this responsibility requires social theories, measurement models and social data. Most existing theorie...
-
Article
Strangulationsileus durch Briden: Reversible Ischämie oder Nekrose?
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Multipurpose Oil Filter Systems for Innovative Drivetrains and e-Axles
Changing drivetrain architectures and designs such as highly integrated e-Axles and hybrid transmissions require different filtration solutions. Not only the requirements towards oil cleanliness and differenti...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Protection of e-axles and innovative drivetrains with multipurpose oil filter systems
Changing drivetrain architectures and designs such as highly integrated e-Axles and hybrid transmissions require new filtration solutions. Especially when it comes to the joint integration of all drivetrain co...
-
Article
Homophily and minority-group size explain perception biases in social networks
People’s perceptions about the size of minority groups in social networks can be biased, often showing systematic over- or underestimation. These social perception biases are often attributed to biased cogniti...
-
Article
Open AccessResponsible team players wanted: an analysis of soft skill requirements in job advertisements
During the past decades the importance of soft skills for labour market outcomes has grown substantially. This carries implications for labour market inequality, since previous research shows that soft skills ...
-
Article
Publisher Correction: Actively personalized vaccination trial for newly diagnosed glioblastoma
The additional author support information was erroneously omitted from the Supplementary Information. This has been corrected online.
-
Book and Conference Proceedings
-
Article
Actively personalized vaccination trial for newly diagnosed glioblastoma
Patients with glioblastoma currently do not sufficiently benefit from recent breakthroughs in cancer treatment that use checkpoint inhibitors1,2. For treatments using checkpoint inhibitors to be successful, a hig...
-
Article
Open AccessHomophily influences ranking of minorities in social networks
Homophily can put minority groups at a disadvantage by restricting their ability to establish links with a majority group or to access novel information. Here, we show how this phenomenon can influence the ran...
-
Article
Open AccessWomen through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia
Contributing to the writing of history has never been as easy as it is today thanks to Wikipedia, a community-created encyclopedia that aims to document the world’s knowledge from a neutral point of view. Thou...
-
Article
Open AccessThe nature and evolution of online food preferences
Food is a central element of humans’ life, and food preferences are amongst others manifestations of social, cultural and economic forces that influence the way we view, prepare and consume food. Historically,...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
The Semantic Evolution of General and Specific Communities
Content injection methods rely on understanding community dynamics (i.e. attention factors) in order to publish content that community users will engage with (e.g. product-related posts), however such methods ...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Measuring the Topical Specificity of Online Communities
For community managers and hosts it is not only important to identify the current key topics of a community but also to assess the specificity level of the community for: a) creating sub-communities, and: b) a...
