Artificial intelligence is at the heart of current debates related to ethical, social and political issues of technological innovation. This briefing refocuses attention from the technoethical challenges of AI to artificial decision-making (ADM) and the questions related to delegating human...

To gain the potential benefit of autonomous intelligent systems, their design and development need to be aligned with fundamental values and ethical principles. We need new design approaches, methodologies and processes to deploy ethical thought and action in the contexts of autonomous...

We analyse the benefits and limitations of the integration of sourcing decisions into the operational route compilation task of a road-haulage company. A trucking company has to supply several customer sides. The demanded quantities are given. The trucking company has to decide which truck...

Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is a collaborative cross-sectoral approach to connect the resource supply and demand of various industries in order to optimize the resource use through exchange of materials, energy, water and human resources across different companies, while generating ecological,...

The education institutions present a complicated economic and social ecosystem with many processes that are constantly under pressure from many stakeholders. Learning organizations are trying to find ways to improve them, but they crash at "unmistakable claims" about the need to build extensive...

Aufgrund des strategischen Potenzials und des geschäftlichen Nutzens von Big Data richten Unternehmen vermehrt ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf Big Data Analytics. Der Wert von Big Data Analytics, zum Beispiel zum Erfassen von Kundenwünschen und zum Liefern von maßgeschneiderten Diensten, scheint...