Integrating induction and deduction for finding evidence of discrimination

Artificial Intelligence and Law

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-43

  Ruggieri, Salvatore ^a   Pedreschi, Dino ^a   Turini, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Affirmative actions; Classification rules; Data mining; Direct discrimination; Indirect discrimination; Knowledge discovery; Logic programming

Indexed keywords

AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS; ANALYTICAL TOOL; CLASSIFICATION RULES; COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DATA SETS; HISTORICAL RECORDS; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; LABOR MARKETS; LEGAL CONCEPTS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; REFERENCE MODELS; RULE BASED; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

DATA MINING; EMPLOYMENT; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; MODELS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 77952999035     PISSN: 09248463     EISSN: 15728382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10506-010-9089-5     Document Type: Article

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