We introduce a new mechanism-design problem called fair imposition. In this setting a center wishes to fairly allocate tasks among a set of agents whose cost structures are known only to them, and thus will not reveal their true costs without appropriate incentives. The center, with the power to impose arbitrary tasks and payments on the agents, has the additional goal that his net payment to t...

Personalization is pervasive in the online space as, when combined with learning, it leads to higher efficiency and revenue by allowing the most relevant content to be served to each user. However, recent studies suggest that such personalization can propagate societal or systemic biases, which has led to calls for regulatory mechanisms and algorithms to combat inequality. Here we propose a rig...

We describe the statistics of checkerboard triangulations obtained by colouring black every other triangle in triangulations of convex polygons.1

Multi-party fair exchange (MFE) and secure multi-party computation (fair SMPC) are under-studied fields of research, with practical importance. In particular, we consider MFE scenarios where at the end protocol, either every participant receives other participant’s item, or no anything. We analyze case a trusted third party (TTP) is optimistically available, although emphasize that trust put on...

Introduction The symmetric application of inversion RF pulses relative to the center of the imaging slab makes FAIR (1) superior in the control of magnetization transfer (MT) effects and more suitable for multi-slice perfusion studies. However, the superior labeling band of FAIR can also label blood, which results in two potential confounds between the single subtraction blood flow quantificati...

One of the major concerns raised by people using negotiation processes is about the fairness of the process. Individuals undertake negotiation to derive better outcomes than could be obtained from conflict and litigation. Thus they often engage in interest based negotiation. But interest based negotiation focuses upon the interests of disputants rather than upon objective measures of fairness. ...

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