* shared first author
Publications: journal articles
Counterfactual Situation Testing: From Single to Multidimensional Discrimination
Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 2025
Policy advice and best practices on bias and fairness in AI
Jose M. Alvarez, Alejandra Bringas, Alaa Elobaid, Simone Fabrizzi, Miriam Fahimi, Antonio Ferrara, Siamak Ghodsi, Carlos Mougan, Ioanna Papageorgiou, Paula Reyero, Mayra Russo, Kristen M. Scott, Laura State, Xuan Zhao, Salvatore Ruggieri
Ethics and Information Technology 2024
Presented at EWAF’24
Predicting and explaining employee turnover intention
Matilde Lazzari, Jose M. Alvarez, and Salvatore Ruggieri
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics 2022
Publications: conference proceedings
Toward A Causal Framework for Modeling Perception
Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri
Forthcoming in AAAI/ACM AIES 2025
Presented at AFCP @ NeurIPS’22
A Causal Framework for Evaluating Deferring Systems
Filippo Palomba*, Andrea Pugnana*, Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri
Forthcoming in AISTAT 2025
The Initial Screening Order Problem
Jose M. Alvarez, Antonio Mastropietro, Salvatore Ruggieri
WSDM 2025
Counterfactual Situation Testing: Uncovering Discrimination under Fairness given the Difference
Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri
ACM EAAMO 2023
Presented at EWAF’22, AFCP @ NeurIPS’22, BIAS @ ECML’23
Fairness implications of encoding protected categorical attributes
Carlos Mougan, Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri, and Steffen Staab
AAAI/ACM AIES 2023
Domain Adaptive Decision Trees: Implications for Accuracy and Fairness
Jose M. Alvarez*, Kristen M. Scott*, Bettina Berendt, Salvatore Ruggieri
ACM FAccT 2023
Can We Trust Fair-AI?
Salvatore Ruggieri, Jose M. Alvarez, Andrea Pugnanna, Laura State, Franco Turini
AAAI 2023
Editor
Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness, Winterthur, Switzerland, June 7th to 9th, 2023. Edited by: Jose M. Alvarez, Alessandro Fabris, Christoph Heitz, Corinna Hertweck, Michele Loi, Meike Zehlike. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3442, CEUR-WS.org 2023.
Preprints
Mutatis Mutandis: Revisiting the Comparator in Discrimination Testing
Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri
Under submission
Privilege Scores
Ludwig Bothmann, Philip A. Boustani, Jose M. Alvarez, Giuseppe Casalicchio, Bernd Bischl, Susanne Dandl
In preparation
Work in progress
Take-Off Periods: A Novel Count Time Series Feature with Jesse Davis and Wouter Verbeke.
Weighted Partial Dependence Plot with Salvatore Ruggieri and Andrea Pugnana.
PhD Thesis
Causality for Fair Machine Learning: Selected Topics and Applications
Jose M. Alvarez
Media
Fairness in Artificial Intelligence with Jose Alvarez. VINTERNATIONAL EP 3. Radio Cavolo, March 2024.
Gauche caviar. The TSEconomist. Num. 16, September 2017.
In his own narrative: An interview with Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller with Marina Sanchez Del Villar. The TSEconomist. Num. 14, December 2016.
Heil Benny! A brief look at jazz during the Third Reich. The TSEconomist. Num. 11, December 2015.