Search Results for author: Carles Sierra

Found 10 papers, 1 papers with code

Can Poverty Be Reduced by Acting on Discrimination? An Agent-based Model for Policy Making

1 code implementation3 Mar 2024 Alba Aguilera, Nieves Montes, Georgina Curto, Carles Sierra, Nardine Osman

We classify policies as discriminatory or non-discriminatory against the poor, with the support of specialized NGOs, and we observe the results in the AABM in terms of the impact on wealth inequality.

Leveraging Diversity in Online Interactions

no code implementations20 Sep 2023 Nardine Osman, Bruno Rosell i Gui, Carles Sierra

This paper addresses the issue of connecting people online to help them find support with their day-to-day problems.

Value Engineering for Autonomous Agents

no code implementations17 Feb 2023 Nieves Montes, Nardine Osman, Carles Sierra, Marija Slavkovik

We argue that this type of normative reasoning, where agents are endowed with an understanding of norms' moral implications, leads to value-awareness in autonomous agents.

Ethics

uHelp: intelligent volunteer search for mutual help communities

no code implementations26 Jan 2023 Nardine Osman, Bruno Rosell, Carles Sierra, Marco Schorlemmer, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Lissette Lemus

uHelp's intelligent search for volunteers is based on a number of AI technologies: (1) a novel trust-based flooding algorithm that navigates one's social network looking for appropriate trustworthy volunteers; (2) a novel trust model that maintains the trustworthiness of peers by learning from their similar past experiences; and (3) a semantic similarity model that assesses the similarity of experiences.

Semantic Similarity Semantic Textual Similarity

Value alignment: a formal approach

no code implementations18 Oct 2021 Carles Sierra, Nardine Osman, Pablo Noriega, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Antoni Perelló

Value alignment is then defined, and computed, for a given norm with respect to a given value through the increase/decrease that it results in the preferences of future states of the world.

TAIP: an anytime algorithm for allocating student teams to internship programs

no code implementations19 May 2020 Athina Georgara, Carles Sierra, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar

In scenarios that require teamwork, we usually have at hand a variety of specific tasks, for which we need to form a team in order to carry out each one.

Synergistic Team Composition: A Computational Approach to Foster Diversity in Teams

no code implementations26 Sep 2019 Ewa Andrejczuk, Filippo Bistaffa, Christian Blum, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra

Thus, the goal of the STCP is to partition a set of individuals into a set of synergistic teams: teams that are diverse in personality and gender and whose members cover all required competencies to complete a task.

Synergistic Team Composition

no code implementations27 Feb 2017 Ewa Andrejczuk, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, Carme Roig, Carles Sierra

The aim of this study is to create a model to partition agents into teams that are balanced in competences, personality and gender.

Dispute Resolution Using Argumentation-Based Mediation

no code implementations15 Sep 2014 Tomas Trescak, Carles Sierra, Simeon Simoff, Ramon Lopez de Mantaras

Mediation is a process, in which both parties agree to resolve their dispute by negotiating over alternative solutions presented by a mediator.

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