Troutville: Where People Discuss Fairness Issues

Fairness Issues in GMPLS Routing

Fairness in Animals: Where to from Here?

In the last decade, there has been an explosion of work investigating non-human species’ behavior as it relates to the human sense of fairness and justice. This research has provided a much needed evolutionary perspective on humans, and highlighted ways in which humans’ behavior is both similar to and different from that of other species. In this concluding paper, we outline the major threads o...

Issues of Fairness in International Trade Agreements

In this paper, we first describe the characteristics of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that are the basis of the framework of the multilateral trading system. We then provide an overview of concepts of fairness in trade agreements. Thereafter, we offer a critique of the efficiency criterion in assessing multilateral trade agreements, taking issue with T.N. Srinivasan’s (2006) analysis and t...

Stability and Fairness Issues in Layered Multicast

Layered multicast is a promising technique for broadcasting adaptive-quality video to heterogeneous receivers. Past evaluation of layered multicast protocols has focused on the effectiveness of determining the maximal number of layers that can be delivered to each receiver. Unfortunately, this is only a partial metric and does not capture all aspects of the “viewing experience”. This paper exte...

Environmental Factors Affecting Where People Geocache

Outdoor leisure activities are important for public health as well as family cohesiveness, yet environmental factors may easily affect someone’s ability to participate in such activities. We explored this with a focus on the social web-based treasure hunt game called Geocaching. We collected data on all US and Canadian geocaches from OpenCaching.com and conducted an online survey with twenty ge...