April 2024 – Communications of the ACM

1. Using Data Science to Predict How Rituals Will Evolve
   Orit Hazzan and Avital Binah-Pollak consider how the data science perspective helped to predict the transformation of Israel’s 2023 social protest.
2. Language-Based Software Testing
   Constraints over grammar elements can make test generation easier than ever.
3. Fast Parameterized Preprocessing for Polynomial-Time Solvable Graph Problems
   The challenge of transforming polynomialtime algorithms to really efficient ones.
4. Who Determines What Is Relevant? Humans or AI? Why Not Both?
   Current understanding is not sufficient to let LLMs perform relevance judgments without human intervention.
5. Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Awareness: An Example from India
   Examining attitudes on the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion.