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In the growing field of Shared Micromobility Systems, which holds great potential for shaping urban transportation, fairness-oriented approaches remain largely unexplored. This work addresses such a gap by investigating the balance between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Matteo Cederle , Marco Fabris , Gian Antonio Susto

Collaborative filtering based recommendation learns users' preferences from all users' historical behavior data, and has been popular to facilitate decision making. R Recently, the fairness issue of recommendation has become more and more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Lei Chen , Le Wu , Kun Zhang , Richang Hong , Defu Lian , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Meng Wang

Recent work in recommender systems mainly focuses on fairness in recommendations as an important aspect of measuring recommendations quality. A fairness-aware recommender system aims to treat different user groups similarly. Relevant work…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei , Mahdi Dehghan , Mohammad Aliannejadi

Public transit is an essential infrastructure enabling access to employment, healthcare, education, and recreational facilities. While accessibility to transit is important in general, some sections of the population depend critically on…

Research on fairness in machine learning has been recently extended to recommender systems. One of the factors that may impact fairness is bias disparity, the degree to which a group's preferences on various item categories fail to be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Masoud Mansoury , Bamshad Mobasher , Robin Burke , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Ridesharing platforms such as Uber, Lyft, and DiDi have grown in popularity due to their on-demand availability, ease of use, and commute cost reductions, among other benefits. However, not all ridesharing promises have panned out. Recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Mahsa Sahebdel , Ali Zeynali , Noman Bashir , Prashant Shenoy , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

Personalized pricing assigns different prices to customers for the same product based on customer-specific features to improve retailer revenue. However, this practice often raises concerns about fairness at both the individual and group…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zeyu Chen , Bintong Chen , Wei Qian , Jing Huang

Machine learning-driven rankings, where individuals (or items) are ranked in response to a query, mediate search exposure or attention in a variety of safety-critical settings. Thus, it is important to ensure that such rankings are fair.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Aparna Balagopalan , Kai Wang , Olawale Salaudeen , Asia Biega , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Today's ride-hailing systems experienced significant growth and ride-pooling promises to allow for efficient and sustainable on-demand transportation. However, efficient ride-pooling requires a large pool of participating customers. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-05 Paul Karaenke , Maximilian Schiffer , Stefan Waldherr

Ranking plays a central role in connecting users and providers in Information Retrieval (IR) systems, making provider-side fairness an important challenge. While recent research has begun to address fairness in ranking, most existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yiteng Tu , Weihang Su , Shuguang Han , Yiqun Liu , Qingyao Ai

On-demand transport services in the form of dial-a-ride and taxis are crucial parts of the transport infrastructure in all major cities. However, not all on-demand transport services are equal. In particular, not-for-profit dial-a-ride…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Malcolm Egan , Michal Jakob

The potential of an efficient ride-sharing scheme to significantly reduce traffic congestion, lower emission level, as well as facilitating the introduction of smart cities has been widely demonstrated. This positive thrust however is faced…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Tal Altshuler , Rachel Katoshevski , Yoram Shiftan

Digital services like ride sharing rely heavily on personal data as individuals have to disclose personal information in order to gain access to the market and exchange their information with other participants; yet, the service provider…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Carsten Hesselmann , Jan Gertheiss , Jörg P. Müller

The last decade has seen a rapid rise in the number of bikeshare programs, where bikes are made available throughout a community on an as-needed basis. Given that many of these programs are at least partially publicly funded, a central…

Applications · Statistics 2019-06-04 Simon Couch , Heather Kitada Smalley

Fair re-ranking aims to redistribute ranking slots among items more equitably to ensure responsibility and ethics. The exploration of redistribution problems has a long history in economics, offering valuable insights for conceptualizing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Chen Xu , Xiaopeng Ye , Wenjie Wang , Liang Pang , Jun Xu , Tat-Seng Chua

The Citi Bike deployment changes the landscape of urban mobility in New York City and provides an example of a scalable solution that many other large cities are already adopting around the world. Urban stakeholders who are considering a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-22 Stanislav Sobolevsky , Ekaterina Levitskaya , Henry Chan , Marc Postle , Constantine Kontokosta

In the United States and elsewhere, risk assessment algorithms are being used to help inform criminal justice decision-makers. A common intent is to forecast an offender's ``future dangerousness.'' Such algorithms have been correctly…

Applications · Statistics 2022-08-10 Richard A. Berk , Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla , Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen

Many companies rely on advertising platforms such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram to recruit a large and diverse applicant pool for job openings. Prior works have shown that equitable bidding may not result in equitable outcomes due to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Inbal Livni Navon , Charlotte Peale , Omer Reingold , Judy Hanwen Shen

Previous post-processing bias mitigation algorithms on both group and individual fairness don't work on regression models and datasets with multi-class numerical labels. We propose a priority-based post-processing bias mitigation on both…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Pranay Lohia

The problem of optimizing social welfare objectives on multi sided ride hailing platforms such as Uber, Lyft, etc., is challenging, due to misalignment of objectives between drivers, passengers, and the platform itself. An ideal solution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Harshal A. Chaudhari , John W. Byers , Evimaria Terzi