Publications

A Causal Framework for Evaluating Deferring Systems
Filippo Palomba, Andrea Pugnana, Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri
Forthcoming in AISTAT 2025

Counterfactual Situation Testing: From Single to Multidimensional Discrimination
Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 2025

The Initial Screening Order Problem
Jose M. Alvarez, Antonio Mastropietro, Salvatore Ruggieri
WSDM 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

Counterfactual Situation Testing: Uncovering Discrimination under Fairness given the Difference
Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri
ACM EAAMO 2023
  Presented at EWAF’22, NeurIPS’22 AFCP Workshop, ECML’23 BIAS Workshop

Fairness implications of encoding protected categorical attributes
Carlos Mougan, Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri, and Steffen Staab
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

Predicting and explaining employee turnover intention
Matilde Lazzari, Jose M. Alvarez, and Salvatore Ruggieri
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics 2022

Working Papers

Mutatis Mutandis: Revisiting the Comparator in Discrimination Testing
Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri
Under submission

Causal Perception
Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri
Under preparation
  Presented at NeurIPS’22 AFCP Workshop

Privilege Scores
Ludwig Bothmann, Philip A. Boustani, Jose M. Alvarez, Giuseppe Casalicchio, Bernd Bischl, Susanne Dandl
Under submission

PhD Thesis

Causality for Fair Machine Learning: Selected Topics and Applications
Jose M. Alvarez

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.

Media

Fairness in Artificial Intelligence with Jose Alvarez. VINTERNATIONAL EP 3. Radio Cavolo.

Other

Gauche caviar. The TSEconomist. Issue Num. 16, September 2017.

In his own narrative: An interview with Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller with Marina Sanchez Del Villar. The TSEconomist. Issue Num. 14, December 2016.

Heil Benny! A brief look at jazz during the Third Reich. The TSEconomist. Issue Num. 11, December 2015.