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Journal Articles

Comparing Smart City Data Protection Approaches: Digital Consent and the Accountability Framework in Singapore

Published Date: 05 Apr 2024

Author(s): Wenxi Zhang, Sharanya Shanmugam, and Jason G Allen

Traditionally, there has been heavy reliance on formal notice and consent models for data protection regimes in smart cities such as Singapore.…

Books, Reports

ABLI-SAL Cryptoasset Series – Cryptoassets and Property Law (civil law edition)

Published Date: 13 Mar 2024

Reports, Working Papers

IPOS-CAIDG AI and IP Report: When Code Creates: A Landscape Report on Issues at the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Law

Published Date: 27 Feb 2024

Book Chapters

Ethical considerations and legal issues relating to federated learning

Published Date: 01 Feb 2024

Author(s): Warren B. CHIK, Florian GAMPER

In this chapter, we will explore the global trends and general principles relating to the ethics of federated learning systems. We will also examine…

Reports, Working Papers

Auditing AI for Whom? A Community-Centric Approach to Rebuilding Public Trust in Singapore

Published Date: 23 Jan 2024

Zhang, Wenxi and Shanmugam, Sharanya and Allen, Jason G and Wong, Willow and Xu, Olivia, Auditing AI for Whom? A Community-Centric Approach to…

Deontics and Time in Contracts: An Executable Semantics for the L4 DSL

Published Date: 19 Jan 2024

Author(s): Seng Joe WATT, Singapore Management University, Oliver GOODENOUGH, Meng Weng (HUANG Mingrong) WONG, Singapore Management University

Existing approaches to modelling contracts often rely on deontic logic to reason about norms, and only treat time qualitatively. Using L4, a textual…

Journal Articles

Addressing Governance Challenges of Digitalisation and Sustainability: The Case of Central Bank Digital Currency

Published Date: 31 Dec 2023

Author(s): Heng Wang

Digitalisation and environmental sustainability are widely discussed topics. However, their nexus remains underexplored and can pose significant…

Journal Articles

Governance of Digitalization and Central Bank Digital Currency: Uncertainties, Balancing, and Learning

Published Date: 18 Oct 2023

Author(s): Heng Wang

Central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a digital version of fiat currency. The governance of CBDC faces uncertainties, many of which are…

Journal Articles

Federated Learning: Revolution or Evolution in Machine Learning? A Legal Analysis

Published Date: 27 Sep 2023

Author(s): Warren Chik, Florian Gamper

Federated Learning (FL) is a form of machine learning (ML) where algorithms are trained across different data sets, without the sharing of these data…

Journal Articles

Legal Hypergraphs

Published Date: 12 Jul 2023

Author(s): Corinna Coupette, Dirk Hartung, Daniel Martin Katz

Complexity science provides a powerful framework for understanding physical, biological, and social systems, and network analysis is one of its…

Defeasible Semantics for L4

Published Date: 28 Feb 2023

Author(s): Guido GOVERNATORI, Meng Weng (HUANG Mingrong) WONG, Singapore Management University

The importance of defeasibility for legal reasoning has been investigated for a long time (see among other [10, 3, 11]). This notion mostly concerns…

Journal Articles

Natural Language Processing in the Legal Domain

Published Date: 25 Jan 2023

Author(s): Daniel Martin Katz, Dirk Hartung, Lauritz Gerlach, Abhik Jana, Michael James Bommarito

In this paper, we summarize the current state of the field of NLP and Law with a specific focus on recent technical and substantive developments. To…

Working Papers

Depending on AI

Published Date: 09 Jan 2023

Findlay, Mark James, Depending on AI (January 10, 2023). SMU Centre for AI & Data Governance Research Paper No. 1/2023, Singapore Management…

Traffic Rule Formalization for Autonomous Vehicle

Published Date: 05 Jan 2023

Author(s): Hanif Bhuiyan, Guido Governatori, Andry Rakotonirainy, Meng Weng Wong, Singapore Management University, and Avishkar Mahajan

This study devised and implemented a Defeasible Deontic Logic (DDL)-based formalization approach for translating traffic rules into a machine-…

Driving-Decision Making of Autonomous Vehicle according to Queensland Overtaking Traffic Rules

Published Date: 05 Jan 2023

Author(s): Hanif BHUIYAN, Guido GOVERNATORI, Avishkar MAHAJAN, Andry RAKOTONIRAINY, Meng Weng (HUANG Mingrong) WONG, Singapore Management University

Making a driving decision according to traffic rules is a challenging task for improving the safety of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). Traffic rules often…

Journal Articles, Working Papers

AI employment decision‑making: integrating the equal opportunity merit principle and explainable AI

Published Date: 05 Jan 2023

Chan, G.K.Y. AI employment decision-making: integrating the equal opportunity merit principle and explainable AI. AI & Soc (2022).…

Journal Articles

Legal Dispositionism and Artificially-Intelligent Attributions

Published Date: 04 Jan 2023

Author(s): Jerrold Soh

It is conventionally argued that because an artificially-intelligent (AI) system acts autonomously, its makers cannot easily be held liable should…

Compliance through Model Checking

Published Date: 30 Nov 2022

Author(s): Avishkar MAHAJAN, STRECKER Martin, Seng Joe WATT, Meng Weng (HUANG Mingrong) WONG, Singapore Management University

In this short note, we describe part of a case study about Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act, which we first presented informally, …

Books, Reports

ABLI-SAL Cryptoasset Series – Cryptoassets and Property Law (Singapore edition)

Published Date: 31 Oct 2022

Policy Recommendations/Feedback, Reports, Working Papers

Conversations at the Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence Interface: Understanding the Needs of Singapore’s Innovation Community

Published Date: 30 Aug 2022

Mark Findlay, Ariffin Kawaja, Ong Li Min, Sharanya Shanmugam

Book Chapters

Kampung Ethics

Published Date: 10 Aug 2022

Mark Findlay and Willow Wong

Working Papers

Cryptoassets in Private Law: Emerging Trends and Open Questions from the First 10 Years

Published Date: 31 Jul 2022

Jason G Allen, Henry Wells, Marco Mauer

Policy Recommendations/Feedback, Working Papers

Driving Digital Self Determination

Published Date: 30 Jun 2022

Mark Findlay

Book Chapters, Working Papers

Towards a data-driven financial system: The impact of covid-19

Published Date: 30 Jun 2022

Nydia Remolina Leon