k-NN as an implementation of situation testing for discrimination discovery and prevention

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 502-510

  Luong, Binh Thanh ^a   Ruggieri, Salvatore ^b   Turini, Franco ^b  

^a IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discrimination discovery and prevention; K NN classification

Indexed keywords

NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CLASSIFICATION MODELS; DECISION VALUE; DISCRIMINATION DISCOVERY AND PREVENTION; K-NN CLASSIFICATIONS; TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 80052678955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2020408.2020488     Document Type: Conference Paper

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