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Showing 1 to 20 of 1062 for “"fairness"”.
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Fairness in Social Networks
… aspects of their lives.In this work, I evaluate fairness from different perspectives.First,tomeasurefairnessfromgroupperspective,Iproposethenovelinformation unfairness criterion, which measures whether information spreads fairly to different groups in a network. Using this criterion, I perform a …
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Fairness in Chinese Organizations
<p>This study examined the roles of organizational justice and individual cultural characteristics in affecting employees' work attitudes and behaviors, in particular, the contextual aspect of job performance in Chinese organizations. Data were collected from 232 employee-supervisor dyads in three …
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The significance of fairness/
This dissertation is about fairness and the role it plays in political and personal morality. Specifically, I investigate when it is appropriate to rely on considerations of fairness to draw substantive conclusions about what we should do. In Chapter 1 ("Numbers, Fairness and Beneficence") I …
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Fairness in a data center
… that address critical issues in DCB networks: fairness with respect to packet lengths and fairness with respect to flow control and bandwidth utilization. The Deficit Round Robin with Adaptive Weight Control (DRR-AWC) algorithm actively monitors the incoming streams and adjusts the scheduling …
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Fairness and optimality in trading
… approach to address the issues of efficiency and fairness when multiple portfolios are rebalanced simultaneously. A fund manager who rebalances multiple portfolios needs to not only optimize the total efficiency, i.e., maximize net risk-adjusted return, but also guarantee that trading costs are …
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Optimal Targeting under Gender Fairness
… profit, they often lack due consideration for fairness among different protected demographic groups. We investigate methods to mitigate gender disparities for both firm’s actions and benefit outcomes in the setting of offer allocations for targeted marketing campaigns. We develop and compare …
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Bias and fairness in transfer learning
… recent studies highlight a critical issue: the fairness of models trained with transfer learning. One study showed that transfer learning can transfer intentionally planted biases from the source task to the target task. This thesis explores a different but equally critical problem: whether …
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Approximations for Economic Efficiency and Fairness
<p>Efficiency and fairness are two major objectives in designing economic systems -- they provide guidelines on the desirability of economic solutions. However, perfectly efficient and fair utopian economies are often nonexistent or impractical, due to incentives, lack of information, computational …
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Procedural Fairness: How Employees Evaluate Procedures
… and outcome on procedural and distributive fairness judgments are reported. The laboratory study tested these effects on the reactions of subjects in a business simulation. Subjects who were given the opportunity to present information in a resource allocation situation evaluated the …
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Fairness for affective and wellbeing computing
… attributes such as age, race and gender. Fairness conversely dictates that no individual or subgroup should be advantaged or disadvantaged based on their inherent characteristics. Such risks are also present in the field of affective computing as affect recognition tools are increasingly …
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Algorithmic Fairness in Sequential Decision Making
… solutions have been proposed for achieving fairness in one-shot decision-making, there is a gap in investigating the long-term effects of sequential algorithmic decisions. In this thesis, we focus on studying algorithmic fairness in a sequential decision-making setting. We first study how to …
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Precision of Fairness Opinions: An Empirical Analysis
… the large market for mergers and acquisitions, fairness opinions are a de-facto standard in the United States of America to protect management from litigation risks by any of the involved parties. Previous court rulings have highlighted that management cannot rely on internally generated …
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Fairness in Communication and Computer Network Design
… bandwidth assignment among them. Obtaining fairness between network users and at the same time assuring efficient network utilization, is a source of non-trivial network optimization problems. Complicating factors are that each user has limited access to the (limited) network resources and …
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Fairness and Privacy in Machine Learning Algorithms
… learning has been challenging. Maintaining data fairness and privacy is one of the top challenges faced by the industry as organizations employ various machine learning algorithms to automatically make decisions based on trends from previously collected data. Protected group or attribute refers …
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Improving fairness in Scottish undergraduate medical education
… practice for other UK medical schools to improve fairness, and ameliorate the awarding gap.
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Emergency Evacuation Modeling with Consideration of Fairness
… far less attention has been paid to the issue of fairness in emergency evacuation planning. The main body of the thesis is about developing new methodologies to optimally and fairly distribute the available resources among the endangered area population during emergency evacuation. This thesis has …
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Fairness for resource allocation in cloud computing.
Resource allocation with fairness, considering multiple types of resources has become a substantial concern in state-of-the-art computing systems. Accordingly, the rapid growth of cloud computing has highlighted the importance of resource management as a complicated and NP-hard problem. Unlike …
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