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Main Publications

Belle, V., Chockler, H., Vallor, S., Varshney, K.R., Vennekens, J., and Beckers, S. (2024). Trustworthiness and Responsibility in AI - Causality, Learning and Verification (Dagstuhl Seminar 24121) Dagstuhl Reports.
Beckers, S., Chockler, H., and Halpern, J.Y. (2024). A Causal Analysis of Harm. In Minds & Machines.
Beckers, S. (forthcoming). What Does It Take To Make A Difference? A Reply To Andreas and Günther. In Journal of Philosophy.
Beckers, S. (forthcoming). Moral Responsibility for AI Systems. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36.
Beckers, S., Chockler, H., and Halpern, J.Y. (2023). Quantifying Harm. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Beckers, S., Halpern, J.Y., and Hitchcock, C. (2023). Causal Models with Constraints. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning.
von Kügelgen, J., Mohamed, A., and Beckers, S. (2023). Backtracking Counterfactuals. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning.
Beckers, S., Chockler, H., and Halpern, J.Y. (2022). A Causal Analysis of Harm. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35.
Beckers, S. (2022). Causal Explanations and XAI. In Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning, PMLR, 177, 90-109.
Beckers, S. (2021). Causal Sufficiency and Actual Causation. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 50, 1341-1374.
Beckers, S. (2021). The Counterfactual NESS Definition of Causation. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol 35, no 7, 6210-6217. Click here for official version
Beckers, S. (2021). Equivalent Causal Models. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol 35, no 7, 6202-6209. Click here for official version
Beckers, S., Eberhardt, F., and Halpern, J.Y. (2019). Approximate Causal Abstraction. In Proceedings of the 35th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2019). Click here for official version
Beckers, S., and Halpern, J.Y. (2019). Abstracting Causal Models. In Proceedings of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol 33, 2678-2685. Click here for official version
Beckers, S. (2018). AAAI: an Argument Against Artificial Intelligence, In Vincent C. Müller (ed.), Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence 2017, (SAPERE; Berlin: Springer), 235-247. Click here for official version
Beckers, S., and Vennekens, J. (2018). A Principled Approach to Defining Actual Causation, Synthese, 195(2), 835-862. Click here for official version
Beckers, S., and Vennekens, J. (2017). The Transitivity and Asymmetry of Actual Causation, Ergo, 4(1), 1-27.
Beckers, S., and Vennekens, J. (2016). A General Framework for Defining and Extending Actual Causation using CP-logic, International Journal for Approximate Reasoning, 77: 105-126. Click here for official version

Other Publications

Beckers, S. (2017). AAAI: an Argument Against Artificial Intelligence, In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on AI, Ethics and Society. (This short text is a precursor to the article above with the same title.)
Beckers, S., and Vennekens, J. (2015). Towards a General Definition of Actual Causation Using CP-logic. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming co-located with ICLP, volume 1413 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 19–38. (Together with the following paper this is a precursor to the IJAR article above.)
Beckers, S., and Vennekens, J. (2015). Combining Probabilistic, Normative, and Causal Reasoning in CP-logic, In Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, 32-38.
Beckers, S., and Vennekens, J. (2012). Counterfactual Dependency and Actual Causation in CP-logic and Structural Models: a Comparison. In Proceedings of the Sixth STAIRS, volume 241 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 35–46.
Beckers, S., De Samblanx, G., De Smedt, F., Goedemé, T., Struyf, L., and Vennekens, J. (2012). Parallel hybrid SAT solving using OpenCL. In Proceedings of Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 11-18.
Beckers, S., De Samblanx, G., De Smedt, F., Goedemé, T., Struyf, L., and Vennekens, J. (2011). Parallel SAT-solving with OpenCL. In Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing, 435-441.

PhD

This is my PhD dissertation. Most of its content has been published in the articles above.

Beckers, S. (2016). Actual Causation: Definitions and Principles, PhD Dissertation.

Old Stuff

These are some of the papers and dissertations which I wrote as a student, hence they might not be worth spending much (if any) time on.