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ARIA: Accountable Real-time Intelligence Arbiter

Authors: Dimakopoulos, Spilios;

ARIA: Accountable Real-time Intelligence Arbiter

Abstract

Motivation. Public administrations across Europe deploy algorithmic decision-making systems for social welfare, housing, and care. These systems present an accountability challenge that existing approaches cannot address: a system may satisfy every individual fairness constraint while systematically producing unjust outcomes at the population level over time. Problem. Existing fairness definitions-individual fairness, equal opportunity, counterfactual fairness-define fairness as a static property measurable at a single snapshot. None models the feedback loop between human judgment and model retraining-the central vector of temporal injustice. Method. We present ARIA and the Temporally Fair Arbitration System (TFAS) definition comprising five independently falsifiable conditions. The four-subsystem architecture is specified via SysML and BPMN 2.0 [18]. Analysis follows the SSM/CATWOE methodology with explicit adversarial stakeholder modelling. Results. We prove the Temporal Injustice Theorem: if the feedback coefficient δ ≥ 1, decision distributions across demographic groups diverge monotonically regardless of local correctness. We verify analytically (induction) and empirically (n=100,000 applications, B=200 bootstrap replications, multi-group extension to |G|=4). A 15×10 sensitivity analysis characterises violation rates across the (δ, β) space; δ≤0.6 produces the lowest violation fractions. Contribution. TFAS is the first fairness definition incorporating bounded human-reviewer feedback as a formal system parameter. Executable Python implementations of SS1 (SPC monitor), SS2 (escalation FSM), and SS4 (Merkle audit log)-the three formally verified subsystems-provide 30/30 passing unit tests; SS3 is specified in SysML/BPMN and awaits a future HMI prototype. The CI/CD deployment gate provides 1:1 TFAS condition coverage and implements EU AI Act Article 14.

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Computer and Systems Architecture, Systems Engineering, Political Science, FOS: Political science, social benefits, Petri nets, algorithmic accountability, demographic parity, Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration, Social and Behavioral Sciences, public sector AI, Science and Technology Studies, human-in-the-loop, Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering, Engineering, audit trail, feedback loops, TFAS, statistical process control, Legal Studies, Computer Engineering, algorithmic fairness, EU AI Act, temporal fairness, human oversight, bias detection

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