Discovering gender discrimination in project funding

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 394-401

  Romei, Andrea ^a   Ruggieri, Salvatore ^a   Turini, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; GENDER DISCRIMINATION; MINING CLASSIFICATION; PROJECT FUNDING; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES;

DATA PROCESSING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84873133742     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDMW.2012.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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