This paper discusses the unfairness issue arising in a 802.6 DQDB network at high loads-when the traffic demand to a bus exceeds the capacity of that bus. As per the 802.6 protocol, at heavy loads, the end nodes along a bus experience longer delays than the other nodes. The origin and remedy of this heavy load unfairness is discussed. An access control scheme is proposed as a solution. The comp...

Three studies examined associations between relational adult attachment and moral judgment. Study 1 shows that attachment-related anxiety and avoidance are uniquely and differentially related with moral concerns. Relative to low insecurity, higher avoidance was associated with weaker moral concerns about harm and unfairness, whereas higher anxiety was associated with stronger moral concerns abo...

We compare between the binary congestion indication scheme and the explicit rate indication scheme proposed for congestion control of ATM's available bit rate service (ABR). The fairness problems of the binary congestion indication scheme that arise when mixing long and short distance tra c are investigated. Our simulations suggest that the unfairness noticed in this case towards the long dista...

An important Quality-of-Service (QoS) issue in wireless multimedia networks is how to control handoff drops. In this paper, we propose admission control algorithms that adaptively control the admission threshold in each cell, in order to keep the handoff dropping probability below a pre-defined level. The admission threshold is dynamically adjusted based on handoff dropping events. We first pre...

The IEEE 802.11 MAC layer is known for its unfairness behavior in ad hoc networks. Introducing fairness in the 802.11 MAC protocol may lead to a global throughput decrease. It is still a real challenge to design a fair MAC protocol for ad hoc networks that is distributed, topology independent, that relies on no explicit information exchanges and that is efficient, i.e. that achieves a good aggr...

This paper investigates the fairness of 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying competition via Monte Carlo simulations. The probabilities are calculated for 102 nations, all teams except African and European countries. A method is proposed to quantify degree unfairness. Although qualifications within four confederations constructed fairly, serious differences found between continents: instance, a South...

Abstract Recent work has demonstrated how data-driven AI methods can leverage consumer protection by supporting the automated analysis of legal documents. However, a shortcoming approaches is poor explainability. We posit that in this domain useful explanations classifier outcomes be provided resorting to rationales. thus consider several configurations memory-augmented neural networks where ra...

In the following paragraphs, I am arguing that rejecting inequality, even when it means sacrificing available resources, could be interpreted as a default response that occurs when there is no other reason to choose otherwise. Moreover, I am reviewing some of our latest findings suggesting that emotions might not be the sole mechanism that ultimately explains this response, as claimed instead b...