discrimination discovery in scientific project evaluation a case study：（在科学的项目评估案例研究发现的歧视）.pdfVIP

Expert Systems with Applications 40 (2013) 6064–6079 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Expert Systems with Applications journal homepage: www.else /locate/eswa Discrimination discovery in scientific project evaluation: A case study q Andrea Romei, Salvatore Ruggieri ⇑, Franco Turini Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa, Italy a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Keywords: Discovering contexts of unfair decisions in a dataset of historical decision records is a non-trivial problem. Discrimination discovery It requires the design of ad hoc methods and techniques of analysis, which have to comply with existing Gender bias laws and with legal argumentations. While some data mining techniques have been adapted to the pur- Case study pose, the state-of-the-art of research still needs both methodological refinements, the consolidation of a Situation testing Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) process, and, most of all, experimentation with real data. This Data mining paper contributes by presenting a case study on gender discrimination in a dataset of scientific research KDD process proposals, and by distilling from the case study a general discrimination discovery process. Gender bias in scientific research is a challenging problem, that has been tackled in