Recommender Systems have become one of the most important tools for streaming and marketplace systems in recent years. Their increased use has revealed clear bias unfairness against minorities underrepresented groups. This paper seeks origin these biases unfairness. To this end, it analyzes demographic characteristics a gold standard dataset its prediction performance when used multitude System...

In recent years, the number of the Internet population is exploding and various kinds of applications are injected into the Internet. A rapid increase of the network traffic brings many problems, since the traditional Internet was not assumed to accommodate such applications. Unfairness among TCP connections is one of most important problems in the current Internet. In this thesis, we first foc...

The problem of imbalance The traditional system of manuscript evaluation has created a certain imbalance bordering with unfairness: while the authors of submitted papers typically have had their identity disclosed already at the outset, the reviewers have remained mostly anonymous. With a new open evaluation system being currently envisaged, the main difference would be that evaluators become d...

Cross-layer interaction of Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) of 802.11 MAC protocol and TCP transport protocol leads to two types of unfairness. In a mixed traffic scenario, short-lived TCP flows suffer from poor performance compared to the aggressive long-lived flows. Since the main source of Internet traffic is small file web transfers, this issue forms a major challenge in current WLAN...

Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise if an agent’s reward expectation is not met. Throughout the...

Recent empirical findings suggest that alcohol dependence is characterized by heightened sensitivity to unfairness during social transactions. The present study went a step further and aimed to ascertain whether this abnormal level of sensitivity to unfairness is underlined by an increased emotional reactivity. Twenty-six recently abstinent alcohol-dependent (AD) individuals and 32 controls per...

In this paper, we propose Layered TCP (LTCP for short), a simple layering technique for the congestion window response of TCP to make it more scalable in highspeed, high RTT networks. LTCP is a two dimensional congestion control framework the macroscopic control uses the concept of layering to quickly and efficiently make use of the available bandwidth whereas microscopic control extends the ex...