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3 Citations
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Gamified Text Testing for Sustainable Fairness

  • Savaş Takan,
  • Duygu Ergün and
  • Gökmen Katipoğlu

26 January 2023

AI fairness is an essential topic as regards its topical and social-societal implications. However, there are many challenges posed by automating AI fairness. Based on the challenges around automating fairness in texts, our study aims to create a new...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,665 Views
23 Pages

24 March 2022

Remanufacturing is a sustainable product reutilization strategy to realize responsible consumption and production. However, it has remained a largely untapped opportunity for enhancing productivity due to some behavioral matters such as fairness conc...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
140 Citations
24,775 Views
24 Pages

Fairness and Explanation in AI-Informed Decision Making

  • Alessa Angerschmid,
  • Jianlong Zhou,
  • Kevin Theuermann,
  • Fang Chen and
  • Andreas Holzinger

AI-assisted decision-making that impacts individuals raises critical questions about transparency and fairness in artificial intelligence (AI). Much research has highlighted the reciprocal relationships between the transparency/explanation and fairne...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,333 Views
35 Pages

26 November 2024

The rapid increase in data volume and variety within the field of machine learning necessitates ethical data utilization and adherence to strict privacy protection standards. Fair federated learning (FFL) has emerged as a pivotal solution for ensurin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,897 Views
44 Pages

Differential Fairness: An Intersectional Framework for Fair AI

  • Rashidul Islam,
  • Kamrun Naher Keya,
  • Shimei Pan,
  • Anand D. Sarwate and
  • James R. Foulds

14 April 2023

We propose definitions of fairness in machine learning and artificial intelligence systems that are informed by the framework of intersectionality, a critical lens from the legal, social science, and humanities literature which analyzes how interlock...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,190 Views
27 Pages

28 May 2022

Almost all academic literature about the causes and consequences of fairness of elections and referenda is based on retrospective evaluations. One of the strongest findings of such studies is that nonvoting is higher among citizens who retrospectivel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,011 Views
16 Pages

Fair clustering aims to partition a dataset while mitigating bias in the original dataset. Developing fair clustering algorithms has gained increasing attention from the machine learning community. In this paper, we propose a fair k-means algorithm,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,872 Views
24 Pages

Fairness-Enabling Practices in Agro-Food Chain

  • Antonella Samoggia and
  • Zeynep Beyhan

24 May 2022

Fairness in the agro-food system is an increasingly important issue. Ensuring fair and ethical practices in the agro-food chain is essential for sustainable, effective, and resilient agro-food systems. Identifying and understanding fairness-enabling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,023 Views
2 Pages

Digital Coins: Fairness Implemented by Observer

  • Heike Neumann and
  • Thomas Schwarzpaul

For real-world applications digital coin systems, i.e., off-line payment systems offering not only the unforgeability of conventional coins but also the anonymity of customers making purchases, need to have some additional features. One of these addi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,054 Views
18 Pages

When Fairness Meets Consistency in AHP Pairwise Comparisons

  • Zorica Dodevska,
  • Sandro Radovanović,
  • Andrija Petrović and
  • Boris Delibašić

25 January 2023

We propose introducing fairness constraints to one of the most famous multi-criteria decision-making methods, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). We offer a solution that guarantees consistency while respecting legally binding fairness constraints...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,659 Views
15 Pages

8 March 2021

This paper discusses the concept of ‘fairness’ in transport, specifically regarding women using public transport, future autonomous vehicle taxis or bicycle sharing. Women generally have varying and complex mobility patterns compared to men and suffe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,597 Views
18 Pages

What Constitutes Fairness in Games? A Case Study with Scrabble

  • Htun Pa Pa Aung,
  • Mohd Nor Akmal Khalid and
  • Hiroyuki Iida

30 August 2021

The compensation system called komi has been used in scoring games such as Go. In Go, White (the second player) is at a disadvantage because Black gets to move first, giving that player an advantage; indeed, the winning percentage for Black is higher...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,900 Views
13 Pages

Resource Allocation for Throughput versus Fairness Trade-Offs under User Data Rate Fairness in NOMA Systems in 5G Networks

  • Osama Abuajwa,
  • Mardeni Roslee,
  • Zubaida Binti Yusoff,
  • Lee Loo Chuan and
  • Pang Wai Leong

22 March 2022

In this work, we present a resource allocation scheme for managing trade-offs between total throughput maximisation and system fairness in a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system for 5G networks. Our proposed approach is designed to improve th...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
14 Citations
18,458 Views
18 Pages

14 June 2010

The excessive compensation packages of CEOs of U.S. corporations in recent years have brought to the foreground the issue of fairness in economics. The conventional wisdom is that the free market for labor, which determines the pay packages, cares on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,280 Views
14 Pages

A Computational Study on Fairness of the Tendermint Blockchain Protocol

  • Nicolas Lagaillardie,
  • Mohamed Aimen Djari and
  • Önder Gürcan

30 November 2019

Fairness is a crucial property for blockchain systems since it affects the participation: the ones that find the system fair tend to stay or enter, the ones that find the system unfair tend to leave. While current literature mainly focuses on fairnes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,621 Views
29 Pages

25 June 2024

We report an experiment designed to study bargaining behavior between one buyer and multiple sellers with complementarity and how it is influenced by fairness concern and information transparency. We base our setup on a structured alternating-offer b...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,221 Views
25 Pages

Formal Group Fairness and Accuracy in Automated Decision Making

  • Anna Langenberg,
  • Shih-Chi Ma,
  • Tatiana Ermakova and
  • Benjamin Fabian

7 April 2023

Most research on fairness in Machine Learning assumes the relationship between fairness and accuracy to be a trade-off, with an increase in fairness leading to an unavoidable loss of accuracy. In this study, several approaches for fair Machine Learni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,449 Views
15 Pages

An Effective Fairness Scheme for Named Data Networking

  • Hammad Zafar,
  • Ziaul Haq Abbas,
  • Ghulam Abbas,
  • Fazal Muhammad,
  • Muhammad Tufail and
  • Sunghwan Kim

Named data networking (NDN) is a revolutionary approach to cater for modern and future Internet usage trends. The advancements in web services, social networks and cloud computing have shifted Internet utilization towards information delivery. Inform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,820 Views
18 Pages

1 February 2023

The Rubinstein alternating-offers bargaining game is reconsidered, where players show fairness concerns and their fairness references are characterized by the Nash bargaining solution. The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of fairness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,645 Views
19 Pages

28 October 2018

Airtime fairness, or time-based fairness, has been well recognized as a method to solve WiFi performance anomalies and provide a balance between fairness and spectrum efficiency in multi-rate wireless networks. However, the definition of airtime is v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,750 Views
19 Pages

17 September 2019

The importance of behavioral factors in the process of decision making is widely recognized in literature and practice. The aim of this paper is to examine the influence of collectors’ multiple fairness concerns on pricing decisions in a closed...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,703 Views
12 Pages

FAIRness of Research Data in the European Humanities Landscape

  • Ljiljana Poljak Bilić and
  • Kristina Posavec

This paper explores the landscape of research data in the humanities in the European context, delving into their diversity and the challenges of defining and sharing them. It investigates three aspects: the types of data in the humanities, their repr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,491 Views
22 Pages

Green Manufacturing Strategy Considering Retailers’ Fairness Concerns

  • Huanyong Zhang,
  • Zhen Zhang,
  • Xujin Pu and
  • Yuhang Li

26 August 2019

This paper addresses the problem of green manufacturing decision making for a green dual-channel supply chain (SC). In the investigated SC, the manufacturer will decide whether to adopt green manufacturing under the influence of the retailer’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,765 Views
22 Pages

Optimal Decisions in an Authorized Remanufacturing Closed-Loop Supply Chain under Dual-Fairness Concerns

  • Zichun Deng,
  • Mohd Rizaimy Shaharudin,
  • S. Sarifah Radiah Shariff and
  • Ming-Lang Tseng

2 September 2024

This paper studies optimal decisions in an authorized remanufacturing closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) consisting of a manufacturer, a retailer, and an authorized third-party remanufacturer with dual-fairness concerns (distributional fairness concerns...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,494 Views
21 Pages

Attaining Fairness in Communication for Omniscience

  • Ni Ding,
  • Parastoo Sadeghi,
  • David Smith and
  • Thierry Rakotoarivelo

11 January 2022

This paper studies how to attain fairness in communication for omniscience that models the multi-terminal compress sensing problem and the coded cooperative data exchange problem where a set of users exchange their observations of a discrete multiple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,468 Views
26 Pages

Decisions and Coordination of the Green Supply Chain with Retailers’ Fairness Concerns

  • Haiju Hu,
  • Yakun Li,
  • Yingyue Li,
  • Mengdi Li,
  • Xiao Yue and
  • Yu Ding

22 December 2022

The development of a green economy has become a global consensus. More and more manufacturers are greening their production to build green supply chains. At the same time, retailers are employing green marketing efforts for green products. In additio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
8,694 Views
21 Pages

The Problem of Fairness in Synthetic Healthcare Data

  • Karan Bhanot,
  • Miao Qi,
  • John S. Erickson,
  • Isabelle Guyon and
  • Kristin P. Bennett

4 September 2021

Access to healthcare data such as electronic health records (EHR) is often restricted by laws established to protect patient privacy. These restrictions hinder the reproducibility of existing results based on private healthcare data and also limit ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,757 Views
20 Pages

21 November 2023

Unbalanced power structures can lead to an inequitable distribution of the supply chain’s profits, creating unstable supply chain relationships and serious social problems. This paper builds a two-tier newsvendor model composed of a single supp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,054 Views
19 Pages

29 January 2019

This paper investigated the impact of fairness concerns on the formation of the inventory transshipment strategy alliance through its impact on the ordering decisions and profits of two retailers. The paper introduced reference point dependency to de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,189 Views
21 Pages

Aircraft noise causes a variety of negative health consequences, and annoyance is a central factor mediating stress-related health risks. Non-acoustic factors play an important role in the experience of annoyance where the aspect of fairness is assum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,700 Views
15 Pages

A Methodology for Controlling Bias and Fairness in Synthetic Data Generation

  • Enrico Barbierato,
  • Marco L. Della Vedova,
  • Daniele Tessera,
  • Daniele Toti and
  • Nicola Vanoli

4 May 2022

The development of algorithms, based on machine learning techniques, supporting (or even replacing) human judgment must take into account concepts such as data bias and fairness. Though scientific literature proposes numerous techniques to detect and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,574 Views
18 Pages

2 April 2021

The reasonable distribution of supply chain profits among supply chain members is the core of the stability of a supply chain. Manufacturer rebates are a normal method to improve the performance of a supply chain and balance profit distribution. Base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
355 Views
18 Pages

Cognitive diagnosis serves as a key component in personalized intelligent education, designed to accurately evaluate students’ knowledge states by analyzing their historical response data. It offers fundamental support for various educational a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,566 Views
15 Pages

Fairness and Trust in Virtual Environments: The Effects of Reputation

  • Mirko Duradoni,
  • Mario Paolucci,
  • Franco Bagnoli and
  • Andrea Guazzini

Reputation supports pro-social behaviors in a variety of social settings and across different ages. When re-encounters are possible, developing a positive reputation can be a valuable asset that will result in better outcomes. However, in real life,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,320 Views
24 Pages

Operationalization of Interorganizational Fairness in Food Systems: From a Social Construct to Quantitative Indicators

  • Ingunn Y. Gudbrandsdottir,
  • Gudrun Olafsdottir,
  • Gudmundur Valur Oddsson,
  • Hlynur Stefansson and
  • Sigurdur G. Bogason

Fairness issues within food systems are of increasing concern for policy makers and other stakeholders. Given the topicality and policy relevance of fairness within food systems, there is value in exploring the subject further. Simulation modelling h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,922 Views
17 Pages

How Reputation Systems Change the Psychological Antecedents of Fairness in Virtual Environments

  • Stefania Collodi,
  • Maria Fiorenza,
  • Andrea Guazzini and
  • Mirko Duradoni

9 August 2020

Reputational systems promote pro-social behaviors, also in virtual environments, therefore their study contributes to the knowledge of social interactions. Literature findings emphasize the power of reputation in fostering fairness in many circumstan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,442 Views
21 Pages

9 October 2024

With the rapid growth of social media and live-streaming technology, live-stream selling has become integral to the digital economy. Using differential game theory, this paper examines how fairness concerns impact the profits of internet celebrities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,102 Views
21 Pages

Analyzing Fairness of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing Models

  • Ahmed Rashed,
  • Abdelkrim Kallich and
  • Mohamed Eltayeb

27 February 2025

Machine learning (ML) algorithms play a critical role in decision-making across various domains, such as healthcare, finance, education, and law enforcement. However, concerns about fairness and bias in these systems have raised significant ethical a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
5,634 Views
28 Pages

17 April 2018

This paper considers the impact of consumer environmental awareness (CEA), retailer’s fairness concern, and government subsidies on the two echelon supply chain with one manufacturer and one retailer. The manufacturer produces green products with car...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,246 Views
26 Pages

Fairness-Aware Intelligent Reinforcement (FAIR): An AI-Powered Hospital Scheduling Framework

  • Ruba Abualrous,
  • Hala Zouzou,
  • Rita Zgheib,
  • Alaa Hasan,
  • Bilal Hijazi and
  • Arash Kermani

28 November 2025

Hospitals must allocate beds and staff effectively under volatile arrival patterns, where scheduling errors can cause preventable harm. This study introduces a fairness-aware, forecast-informed reinforcement learning framework for hospital scheduling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,885 Views
17 Pages

A Fairness of Data Combination in Wireless Packet Scheduling

  • Sovit Bhandari,
  • Navin Ranjan,
  • Yeong-Chan Kim,
  • Pervez Khan and
  • Hoon Kim

20 February 2022

With the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the function of AI in a sixth generation (6G) environment is likely to come into play on a large scale. Moreover, in recent years, with the rapid advancement in AI technology, the eth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,796 Views
15 Pages

Continuous Variable Quantum Secret Sharing with Fairness

  • Ye Kang,
  • Ying Guo,
  • Hai Zhong,
  • Guojun Chen and
  • Xiaojun Jing

25 December 2019

The dishonest participants have many advantages to gain others’ shares by cheating in quantum secret sharing (QSS) protocols. However, the traditional methods such as identity authentication and message authentication can not resolve this probl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,290 Views
12 Pages

11 July 2021

Based on the data from Korean citizen’s deliberation experiments, we examined the effects and antecedents of perceived fairness of the deliberative process. Our empirical study tested whether the perceived fairness of the deliberative process was ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
29,192 Views
22 Pages

Exploring the Governance and Fairness in the Milk Value Chain: A Case Study in Vietnam

  • Viet Hoang,
  • An Nguyen,
  • Carmen Hubbard and
  • Khanh-Duy Nguyen

15 September 2021

Governance and fairness in the food value chain have gained considerable attention from both policymakers and scholars, especially in developing countries. This study analysed the milk value chain, exploring its governance and fairness, and assessed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,701 Views
21 Pages

Optimal Energy Efficiency Fairness of Nodes in Wireless Powered Communication Networks

  • Jing Zhang,
  • Qingjie Zhou,
  • Derrick Wing Kwan Ng and
  • Minho Jo

15 September 2017

In wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs), it is essential to research energy efficiency fairness in order to evaluate the balance of nodes for receiving information and harvesting energy. In this paper, we propose an efficient iterative alg...

  • Review
  • Open Access
114 Citations
57,611 Views
33 Pages

13 September 2023

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the fairness issues in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, delving into its background, definition, and development process. The article explores the fairness problem in AI through practical applica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,934 Views
32 Pages

Complex tax systems can result in tax evasion, which further impacts the revenues necessary to achieve sustainable development goals. Enhancing taxpayer education, tax knowledge, and tax fairness perception is essential for boosting revenues to suppo...

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