English

Temporal Fairness in Decision Making Problems

Artificial Intelligence 2024-08-26 v1

Abstract

In this work we consider a new interpretation of fairness in decision making problems. Building upon existing fairness formulations, we focus on how to reason over fairness from a temporal perspective, taking into account the fairness of a history of past decisions. After introducing the concept of temporal fairness, we propose three approaches that incorporate temporal fairness in decision making problems formulated as optimization problems. We present a qualitative evaluation of our approach in four different domains and compare the solutions against a baseline approach that does not consider the temporal aspect of fairness.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2408.13208,
  title  = {Temporal Fairness in Decision Making Problems},
  author = {Manuel R. Torres and Parisa Zehtabi and Michael Cashmore and Daniele Magazzeni and Manuela Veloso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.13208},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Paper accepted at ECAI 2024. This is an extended version that includes Supplementary Material

R2 v1 2026-06-28T18:22:22.630Z