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As freelancing work keeps on growing almost everywhere due to a sharp decrease in communication costs and to the widespread of Internet-based labour marketplaces (e.g., guru.com, feelancer.com, mturk.com, upwork.com), many researchers and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Giorgio Barnabò , Adriano Fazzone , Stefano Leonardi , Chris Schwiegelshohn

Fairness has been taken as a critical metric in machine learning models, which is considered as an important component of trustworthy machine learning. In this paper, we focus on obtaining fairness for popular link prediction tasks, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Moyi Yang , Junjie Sheng , Xiangfeng Wang , Wenyan Liu , Bo Jin , Jun Wang , Hongyuan Zha

We investigate the problem of heterogeneous task assignment in crowdsourcing markets from the point of view of the requester, who has a collection of tasks. Workers arrive online one by one, and each declare a set of feasible tasks they can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Sepehr Assadi , Justin Hsu , Shahin Jabbari

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods and chores under category constraints. Specifically, there are $n$ agents and $m$ indivisible items which are partitioned into categories with associated capacities. An allocation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ayumi Igarashi , Frédéric Meunier

The study of fair algorithms has become mainstream in machine learning and artificial intelligence due to its increasing demand in dealing with biases and discrimination. Along this line, researchers have considered fair versions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Fedor V. Fomin , Tanmay Inamdar , Kirill Simonov

A set of objects is to be divided fairly among agents with different tastes, modeled by additive utility-functions. If we consider the objects as indivisible, many instances of the decision problem: ``Is there a fair division of the objects…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Samuel Bismuth , Ivan Bliznets , Erel Segal-Halevi

This paper explores the problem of fair assignment on Multi-Stage graphs. A multi-stage graph consists of nodes partitioned into $K$ disjoint sets (stages) structured as a sequence of weighted bipartite graphs formed across adjacent stages.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Vibulan J , Swapnil Dhamal , Shweta Jain

We consider the problem of creating fair course timetables in the setting of a university. Our motivation is to improve the overall satisfaction of individuals concerned (students, teachers, etc.) by providing a fair timetable to them. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-01 Moritz Mühlenthaler , Rolf Wanka

Algorithmic decision making systems are ubiquitous across a wide variety of online as well as offline services. These systems rely on complex learning methods and vast amounts of data to optimize the service functionality, satisfaction of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-27 Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Isabel Valera , Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Krishna P. Gummadi

This paper considers the problem of assigning multiple mobile robots to goals on transport networks with uncertain information about travel times. Our aim is to produce optimal assignments, such that the average waiting time at destinations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Amanda Prorok

We propose a new formulation for the multi-robot task allocation problem that incorporates (a) complex precedence relationships between tasks, (b) efficient intra-task coordination, and (c) cooperation through the formation of robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Walker Gosrich , Saurav Agarwal , Kashish Garg , Siddharth Mayya , Matthew Malencia , Mark Yim , Vijay Kumar

Matching algorithms are used routinely to match donors to recipients for solid organs transplantation, for the assignment of medical residents to hospitals, record linkage in databases, scheduling jobs on machines, network switching, online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-09 David García-Soriano , Francesco Bonchi

Traffic engineering aims to control infrastructure and population behaviour to achieve optimal usage of road networks. Fairness is fundamental to stimulate cooperation in large populations, and plays an important role in traffic…

General Economics · Economics 2025-03-17 Kevin Riehl , Anastasios Kouvelas , Michail Makridis

Flows over time have received substantial attention from both an optimization and (more recently) a game-theoretic perspective. In this model, each arc has an associated delay for traversing the arc, and a bound on the rate of flow entering…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Dario Frascaria , Neil Olver

We consider the problem of allocating indivisible goods fairly among n agents who have additive and submodular valuations for the goods. Our fairness guarantees are in terms of the maximin share, that is defined to be the maximum value that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Siddharth Barman , Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy

We build upon recent work [Kleinberg and Oren, 2014, Kleinberg et al., 2016, 2017] that considers present biased agents, who place more weight on costs they must incur now than costs they will incur in the future. They consider a graph…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Aditya Saraf , Anna R. Karlin , Jamie Morgenstern

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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Manuel R. Torres , Parisa Zehtabi , Michael Cashmore , Daniele Magazzeni , Manuela Veloso

Multi-robot task allocation is one of the most fundamental classes of problems in robotics and is crucial for various real-world robotic applications such as search, rescue and area exploration. We consider the Single-Task robots and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Haris Aziz , Hau Chan , Ágnes Cseh , Bo Li , Fahimeh Ramezani , Chenhao Wang

A major challenge for ridesharing platforms is to guarantee profit and fairness simultaneously, especially in the presence of misaligned incentives of drivers and riders. We focus on the dispatching-pricing problem to maximize the total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Zishuo Zhao , Xi Chen , Xuefeng Zhang , Yuan Zhou

The advances in information and communication technology are changing theway people move. Companies that offer demand-responsive transportation serviceshave the opportunity to reduce their costs and increase their revenues…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Enrico Angelelli , Valentina Morandi , Maria Grazia Speranza