This three-year, $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of novel methods to enable standards- and disclosure-based regulation of algorithmic work management software. The University of California, San Diego will work to make such software accountable to existing labor laws and address gaps in regulations to better protect workers.
Specifically, the university will pursue three thrusts: participatory formalization of regulatory software requirements with stakeholders; scalable and interactive formal methods for software guarantees and decision support; and regulatory outcome evaluation and monitoring. The work will focus on algorithmic scheduling software used in shift work and aims to give businesses tools for compliance while providing more stable and predictable schedules for workers. This has the potential for significant impacts through accountable software that better mitigates risks to an estimated 25% of the U.S. workforce.
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