Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give an introduction to the special issue by providing background on the ETHICOMP conference series and a discussion of its role in the academic debate on ethics and computing. ...

The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and detection error tradeoff (DET) curves have been widely used in the machine learning community to analyze the performance of classifiers. The area (or volume) under the convex ...

In order to frame discussions on data privacy in varied contexts, this paper introduces a categorisation of personal data along two dimensions. Each of the nine resulting categories offers a significantly different flavour ...

The role of the academic, both inside and beyond the University, is under scrutiny across global higher education. In-part this is tied to the neoliberal agenda for universities, which is underpinned by a discourse of ...

Differential evolution (DE) is one of the most powerful and effective evolutionary algorithms for solving global optimization problems. However, just like all other metaheuristics, DE also has some drawbacks, such as slow ...