Match’In - Pilot Project of an Algorithm-Based Decision Support System for Individualized Recommendations of Municipalities for the Integration of Refugees

Sauer C, Wenzel C, Euler K, Reinhold S, Wuttke F, Oitmann B (2024)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2024

Journal

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications IOS Press

Publisher: IOS Press BV

Book Volume: 392

Pages Range: 4703-4710

Conference Proceedings Title: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Event location: Santiago de Compostela ES

ISBN: 9781643685489

DOI: 10.3233/FAIA241067

Abstract

For the successful integration of refugees, it is essential to place refugees in a municipality that best matches their personal needs and future plans. It is therefore important to individualize the choice of location with the highest possible match to personal attributes and needs of a refugee. In this paper, we describe the development of the Match’In system, a recommender system that recommends municipalities for the integration of refugees, based on the knowledge representing an individual refugee and his or her needs. We describe the knowledge elicitation and formalization process we developed and applied in the Match’In project. A participatory and multi-stage process was used to develop the algorithm-based decision support system for the individualized recommendation of municipalities for refugees. We detail on the decision and rational of using case-based reasoning (CBR) as the reasoning approach within the Match’In system. We then describe the specific capabilities of the use of structural CBR in terms of transparency of the knowledge model, with an emphasis on the detection and prevention of algorithmic bias. We further describe the reasoning technique and the possibilities to automatically derive explanations from these to justify the recommendation of specific municipalities by the Match’In system.

Authors with CRIS profile

Sonja Reinhold FAU Forschungszentrum Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN)

Involved external institutions

Universität Hildesheim DE Germany (DE) eEvolution DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Sauer, C., Wenzel, C., Euler, K., Reinhold, S., Wuttke, F., & Oitmann, B. (2024). Match’In - Pilot Project of an Algorithm-Based Decision Support System for Individualized Recommendations of Municipalities for the Integration of Refugees. In Ulle Endriss, Francisco S. Melo, Kerstin Bach, Alberto Bugarin-Diz, Jose M. Alonso-Moral, Senen Barro, Fredrik Heintz (Eds.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (pp. 4703-4710). Santiago de Compostela, ES: IOS Press BV.

MLA:

Sauer, Christian, et al. "Match’In - Pilot Project of an Algorithm-Based Decision Support System for Individualized Recommendations of Municipalities for the Integration of Refugees." Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2024, Santiago de Compostela Ed. Ulle Endriss, Francisco S. Melo, Kerstin Bach, Alberto Bugarin-Diz, Jose M. Alonso-Moral, Senen Barro, Fredrik Heintz, IOS Press BV, 2024. 4703-4710.

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