Creating Dynamic Checklists via Bayesian Case-Based Reasoning: Towards Decent Working Conditions for All

Creating Dynamic Checklists via Bayesian Case-Based Reasoning: Towards Decent Working Conditions for All

Eirik Lund Flogard, Ole Jakob Mengshoel, Kerstin Bach

Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
AI for Good. Pages 5108-5114. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/709

Every year there are 1.9 million deaths world-wide attributed to occupational health and safety risk factors. To address poor working conditions and fulfill UN's SDG 8, "protect labour rights and promote safe working environments for all workers", governmental agencies conduct labour inspections, using checklists to survey individual organisations for working environment violations. Recent research highlights the benefits of using machine learning for creating checklists. However, the current methods only create static checklists and do not adapt them to new information that surfaces during use. In contrast, we propose a new method called Context-aware Bayesian Case-Based Reasoning (CBCBR) that creates dynamic checklists. These checklists are continuously adapted as the inspections progress, based on how they are answered. Our evaluations show that CBCBR's dynamic checklists outperform static checklists created via the current state-of-the-art methods, increasing the expected number of working environment violations found in the labour inspections.
Keywords:
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Case-based Reasoning
Machine Learning: Recommender Systems
Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: Sustainable Development Goals
Machine Learning: Online Learning