A new approach for defining causality and such related notions as degree of responsibility,
degrees of blame, and causal explanation. Causality plays a central role in the way people …

This paper defines software fairness and discrimination and develops a testing-based
method for measuring if and how much software discriminates, focusing on causality in …

Provenance refers to any information describing the production process of an end product,
which can be anything from a piece of digital data to a physical object. While this survey …

Data is increasingly being bought and sold online, and Web-based marketplace services
have emerged to facilitate these activities. However, current mechanisms for pricing data are …

As a consequence of the popularity of big data, many users with a variety of backgrounds
seek to extract high level information from datasets collected from various sources and …

A goal of software engineering research is advancing software quality and the success of
the software engineering process. However, while recent studies have demonstrated a new …

We study in this paper provenance information for queries with aggregation. Provenance
information was studied in the context of various query languages that do not allow for …

It has recently been asserted that the usability of a database is as important as its capability.
Understanding the database schema, the hidden relationships among attributes in the data …

Bias in decisions made by modern software is becoming a common and serious problem.
We present Themis, an automated test suite generator to measure two types of …

This paper introduces secure network provenance (SNP), a novel technique that enables
networked systems to explain to their operators why they are in a certain state--eg, why a …