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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
144 Citations
24,852 Views
24 Pages

Fairness and Explanation in AI-Informed Decision Making

  • Alessa Angerschmid,
  • Jianlong Zhou,
  • Kevin Theuermann,
  • Fang Chen and
  • Andreas Holzinger

AI-assisted decision-making that impacts individuals raises critical questions about transparency and fairness in artificial intelligence (AI). Much research has highlighted the reciprocal relationships between the transparency/explanation and fairne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,954 Views
44 Pages

Differential Fairness: An Intersectional Framework for Fair AI

  • Rashidul Islam,
  • Kamrun Naher Keya,
  • Shimei Pan,
  • Anand D. Sarwate and
  • James R. Foulds

14 April 2023

We propose definitions of fairness in machine learning and artificial intelligence systems that are informed by the framework of intersectionality, a critical lens from the legal, social science, and humanities literature which analyzes how interlock...

  • Review
  • Open Access
117 Citations
57,782 Views
33 Pages

13 September 2023

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the fairness issues in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, delving into its background, definition, and development process. The article explores the fairness problem in AI through practical applica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,573 Views
19 Pages

Training in Co-Creation as a Methodological Approach to Improve AI Fairness

  • Ian Slesinger,
  • Evren Yalaz,
  • Stavroula Rizou,
  • Marta Gibin,
  • Emmanouil Krasanakis and
  • Symeon Papadopoulos

3 December 2024

Participatory design (PD) and co-creation (Co-C) approaches to building Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have become increasingly popular exercises for ensuring greater social inclusion and fairness in technological transformation by accounting f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
12,314 Views
18 Pages

This study investigates the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on financial inclusion satisfaction and recommendation, with a focus on the ethical dimensions and perceived algorithmic fairness. Drawing upon organizational justice theory and the h...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,889 Views
36 Pages

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector has seen a rapid increase over the past few years, offering new possibilities to streamline processes while ensuring profitability for lending institutions. With its data-driven...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,651 Views
24 Pages

Quantum-Enhanced Algorithmic Fairness and the Advancement of AI Integrity and Responsibility

  • Akhil Chintalapati,
  • Khashbat Enkhbat,
  • Ramanathan Annamalai,
  • Geraldine Bessie Amali,
  • Fatih Ozaydin and
  • Mathew Mithra Noel

In the evolving digital landscape, the pervasive influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on social media platforms reveals a compelling paradox: the capability to provide personalized experiences juxtaposed with inherent biases reminiscent of human...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,510 Views
22 Pages

15 August 2025

As artificial intelligence systems increasingly govern public safety operations, concerns over algorithmic fairness and legal compliance intensify. This study introduces a scenario-based evaluation framework (SCRAM) that simultaneously measures regul...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,089 Views
16 Pages

13 January 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly utilized in higher-education assessment; however, existing research remains fragmented, with limited synthesis regarding the interplay of fairness, transparency, pedagogy, and governance. To address this g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
327 Views
29 Pages

18 February 2026

Depression poses a major worldwide health burden, necessitating advanced diagnostic tools based on reliable and authentic assessment. While multimodal AI systems offer promising results by integrating diverse data sources, existing approaches often r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,413 Views
20 Pages

This study examines the role of algorithmic fairness in alleviating digital financial stress among consumers across OECD countries, utilizing panel data spanning from 2010 to 2023. By introducing a digital financial stress index—constructed fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,883 Views
19 Pages

28 August 2023

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been associated with conditions like depression, anxiety, epilepsy, etc., due to its impact on an individual’s educational, social, and employment. Since diagnosis is challenging and there is no cure, the goal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,608 Views
22 Pages

6 April 2025

This study examines the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in judicial decision-making, focusing on bail and sentencing contexts. We examined public perceptions of judges who use AI tools compared to those who rely solely on expertise. Using an exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
17,030 Views
24 Pages

This paper examines the uptake of AI-driven fraud detection systems among financial institutions in the UAE and Qatar, with a special focus on trust, transparency, and perceptions of fairness. Despite the promise of AI operations in identifying finan...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,418 Views
25 Pages

Governing Healthcare AI in the Real World: How Fairness, Transparency, and Human Oversight Can Coexist: A Narrative Review

  • Paolo Bailo,
  • Giulio Nittari,
  • Giuliano Pesel,
  • Emerenziana Basello,
  • Tommaso Spasari and
  • Giovanna Ricci

6 February 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly shifting from experimental pilots to mainstream clinical infrastructure, redefining how evidence, accountability, and ethics intersect in healthcare. This narrative review integrates insights from peer-reviewed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,175 Views
16 Pages

Comprehensive Validation on Reweighting Samples for Bias Mitigation via AIF360

  • Christina Hastings Blow,
  • Lijun Qian,
  • Camille Gibson,
  • Pamela Obiomon and
  • Xishuang Dong

30 April 2024

Fairness Artificial Intelligence (AI) aims to identify and mitigate bias throughout the AI development process, spanning data collection, modeling, assessment, and deployment—a critical facet of establishing trustworthy AI systems. Tackling dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,642 Views
28 Pages

Trustworthiness Optimisation Process: A Methodology for Assessing and Enhancing Trust in AI Systems

  • Mattheos Fikardos,
  • Katerina Lepenioti,
  • Dimitris Apostolou and
  • Gregoris Mentzas

The emerging capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and the systems that employ them have reached a point where they are integrated into critical decision-making processes, making it paramount to change and adjust how they are evaluated, monito...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,883 Views
55 Pages

Mitigating Algorithmic Bias in AI-Driven Cardiovascular Imaging for Fairer Diagnostics

  • Md Abu Sufian,
  • Lujain Alsadder,
  • Wahiba Hamzi,
  • Sadia Zaman,
  • A. S. M. Sharifuzzaman Sagar and
  • Boumediene Hamzi

27 November 2024

Background/Objectives: The research addresses algorithmic bias in deep learning models for cardiovascular risk prediction, focusing on fairness across demographic and socioeconomic groups to mitigate health disparities. It integrates fairness-aware a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,303 Views
19 Pages

A Maturity Model for Trustworthy AI Software Development

  • Seunghwan Cho,
  • Ingyu Kim,
  • Jinhan Kim,
  • Honguk Woo and
  • Wanseon Shin

10 April 2023

Recently, AI software has been rapidly growing and is widely used in various industrial domains, such as finance, medicine, robotics, and autonomous driving. Unlike traditional software, in which developers need to define and implement specific funct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,312 Views
27 Pages

3 November 2025

Deepfake-style AI tutors are emerging in online education, offering personalized and multilingual instruction while introducing risks to integrity, privacy, and trust. This study aims to understand their pedagogical potential and governance needs for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,331 Views
39 Pages

AI Trustworthiness in Manufacturing: Challenges, Toolkits, and the Path to Industry 5.0

  • M. Nadeem Ahangar,
  • Z. A. Farhat and
  • Aparajithan Sivanathan

11 July 2025

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into manufacturing is transforming the industry by advancing predictive maintenance, quality control, and supply chain optimisation, while also driving the shift from Industry 4.0 towards a more human-c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,298 Views
16 Pages

Fairness in Predictive Marketing: Auditing and Mitigating Demographic Bias in Machine Learning for Customer Targeting

  • Sayee Phaneendhar Pasupuleti,
  • Jagadeesh Kola,
  • Sai Phaneendra Manikantesh Kodete and
  • Sree Harsha Palli

As organizations increasingly turn to machine learning for customer segmentation and targeted marketing, concerns about fairness and algorithmic bias have become more urgent. This study presents a comprehensive fairness audit and mitigation framework...

  • Review
  • Open Access
649 Views
53 Pages

This study proposes a systematic framework for establishing ethical guidelines for GeoAI (Geospatial Artificial Intelligence), which integrates AI with spatial data science, GIS, and remote sensing. While general AI ethics have advanced through the O...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
9,772 Views
23 Pages

23 June 2025

The emergence of generative AI presents complex challenges to existing copyright regimes, particularly concerning the large-scale use of copyrighted materials in model training. Legal disputes across jurisdictions highlight the urgent need for a bala...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,884 Views
15 Pages

Bias Mitigation via Synthetic Data Generation: A Review

  • Mohamed Ashik Shahul Hameed,
  • Asifa Mehmood Qureshi and
  • Abhishek Kaushik

2 October 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely used in healthcare applications to perform various tasks. Although these models have great potential to improve the healthcare system, they have also raised significant ethical concerns, including biases that in...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,046 Views
20 Pages

26 January 2026

Background/Objectives: Federated learning (FL) offers a way for healthcare institutions to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing sensitive patient data. This systematic review aims to comprehensively synthesize the ethical dim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
270 Views
30 Pages

1 March 2026

The integration of artificial intelligence into criminal sentencing decisions represents one of the most consequential applications of algorithmic systems in contemporary governance. While AI-assisted risk assessment tools promise enhanced consistenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
689 Views
21 Pages

15 November 2025

With the development of decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) networks, federated learning (FL) has received extensive attention for its ability to enable collaborative modeling without sharing raw data. However, existing methods are prone to co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,057 Views
17 Pages

This study introduces a novel Interleaved Fusion Learning (IFL) methodology leveraging transfer learning to generate a family of models optimized for specific datasets while maintaining superior generalization performance across others. The approach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
444 Views
19 Pages

19 January 2026

Bioarchaeology continues to generate growing volumes of data from finite and often destructively sampled resources, making data reusability critical according to FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and CARE (Collective Ben...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,309 Views
26 Pages

Fairness-Aware Intelligent Reinforcement (FAIR): An AI-Powered Hospital Scheduling Framework

  • Ruba Abualrous,
  • Hala Zouzou,
  • Rita Zgheib,
  • Alaa Hasan,
  • Bilal Hijazi and
  • Arash Kermani

28 November 2025

Hospitals must allocate beds and staff effectively under volatile arrival patterns, where scheduling errors can cause preventable harm. This study introduces a fairness-aware, forecast-informed reinforcement learning framework for hospital scheduling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,669 Views
14 Pages

22 August 2025

The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) designates AI systems used in life and health insurance underwriting as high-risk systems, imposing rigorous requirements for bias testing, technical documentation, and post-deployment mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
563 Views
24 Pages

28 January 2026

As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in classrooms, tutoring systems, and learning platforms, it is essential that these tools are not only powerful, but also easy to understand, fair, and supportive of real learning. Many current AI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,366 Views
17 Pages

11 August 2025

As large language models (LLMs) increasingly enter high-stakes decision-making contexts, questions arise about their suitability in domains requiring normative judgment, such as judicial sentencing. This study investigates whether LLMs exhibit bias w...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
12,790 Views
30 Pages

Towards Fair AI: Mitigating Bias in Credit Decisions—A Systematic Literature Review

  • José Rômulo de Castro Vieira,
  • Flavio Barboza,
  • Daniel Cajueiro and
  • Herbert Kimura

The increasing adoption of artificial intelligence algorithms is redefining decision-making across various industries. In the financial sector, where automated credit granting has undergone profound changes, this transformation raises concerns about...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,254 Views
17 Pages

Issues and Limitations on the Road to Fair and Inclusive AI Solutions for Biomedical Challenges

  • Oliver Faust,
  • Massimo Salvi,
  • Prabal Datta Barua,
  • Subrata Chakraborty,
  • Filippo Molinari and
  • U. Rajendra Acharya

2 January 2025

Objective: In this paper, we explore the correlation between performance reporting and the development of inclusive AI solutions for biomedical problems. Our study examines the critical aspects of bias and noise in the context of medical decision sup...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,289 Views
40 Pages

Data Quality in the Age of AI: A Review of Governance, Ethics, and the FAIR Principles

  • Miriam Guillen-Aguinaga,
  • Enrique Aguinaga-Ontoso,
  • Laura Guillen-Aguinaga,
  • Francisco Guillen-Grima and
  • Ines Aguinaga-Ontoso

4 December 2025

Data quality is fundamental to scientific integrity, reproducibility, and evidence-based decision-making. Nevertheless, many datasets lack transparency in their collection and curation, undermining trust and reusability across research domains. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
244 Views
19 Pages

7 February 2026

Fairness-aware classification with respect to sensitive attributes, such as gender and race, is one of the most important topics in machine learning. Although numerous studies have made outstanding progress through various approaches, one key limitat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
241 Views
16 Pages

12 February 2026

Asymmetries in data distributions and performance across subgroups can induce systematic unfairness in real-world systems. A variety of previous studies have significantly ameliorated the fairness of deep learning models; however, most of them necess...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,860 Views
11 Pages

A Literature Review: Bias Detection and Mitigation in Criminal Justice

  • Pravallika Kondapalli,
  • Parminder Singh,
  • Arun Malik and
  • C. S. A. Teddy Lesmana

9 September 2025

The use of algorithmic models or systems in criminal justice is increasing day by day, yet the bias in these algorithms can perpetuate historical inequities, especially in predictive tools like COMPAS. This literature survey examines 30 studies addre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,708 Views
44 Pages

This study presents a fairness-aware framework for modeling the Probability of Default (PD) in individual credit scoring, explicitly addressing the trade-off between predictive accuracy and fairness. As machine learning (ML) models become increasingl...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
1,892 Views
26 Pages

30 August 2025

This paper explores the rise in voice-based social media as a pivotal transformation in digital communication, situated within the broader era of chatbots and voice AI. Platforms such as Clubhouse, X Spaces, Discord and similar ones foreground vocal...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,650 Views
29 Pages

23 April 2024

To achieve the energy transition, energy and energy efficiency are becoming more and more important in society. New methods, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) models, are needed to coordinate supply and demand and address...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
859 Views
19 Pages

Transforming Public Health Practice with Artificial Intelligence: A Framework-Driven Approach

  • Obinna O. Oleribe,
  • Florida Uzoaru,
  • Adati Tarfa,
  • Olabiyi H. Olaniran and
  • Simon D. Taylor-Robinson

3 February 2026

Background: The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has triggered a global transformation, with the healthcare sector experiencing significant disruption and innovation. In current public health practice, AI is being deployed to power various a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,139 Views
21 Pages

Using Bias Parity Score to Find Feature-Rich Models with Least Relative Bias

  • Bhanu Jain,
  • Manfred Huber,
  • Ramez Elmasri and
  • Leonidas Fegaras

Machine learning-based decision support systems bring relief and support to the decision-maker in many domains such as loan application acceptance, dating, hiring, granting parole, insurance coverage, and medical diagnoses. These support systems faci...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,226 Views
25 Pages

Formal Group Fairness and Accuracy in Automated Decision Making

  • Anna Langenberg,
  • Shih-Chi Ma,
  • Tatiana Ermakova and
  • Benjamin Fabian

7 April 2023

Most research on fairness in Machine Learning assumes the relationship between fairness and accuracy to be a trade-off, with an increase in fairness leading to an unavoidable loss of accuracy. In this study, several approaches for fair Machine Learni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,562 Views
25 Pages

29 July 2025

This study addresses fairness in machine learning for student academic performance prediction using the UCI Student Performance dataset. We comparatively evaluate logistic regression, Random Forest, and XGBoost, integrating the Synthetic Minority Ove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,781 Views
31 Pages

Privacy-Preserving Clinical Decision Support for Emergency Triage Using LLMs: System Architecture and Real-World Evaluation

  • Alper Karamanlıoğlu,
  • Berkan Demirel,
  • Onur Tural,
  • Osman Tufan Doğan and
  • Ferda Nur Alpaslan

29 July 2025

This study presents a next-generation clinical decision-support architecture for Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) focused on emergency triage. By integrating Large Language Models (LLMs), Federated Learning (FL), and low-latency streaming ana...

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