Abstract In this paper, we study the problem of a fair redistribution resources among agents in an exchange economy á la Shitovitz (Econometrica 41:467–501, 1973), with agents’ measure space having both atoms and atomless sector. We proceed by following idea Aubin (Mathematical methods game economic theory. North-Holland, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 1979) to allow for partial participation ind...

The sense of fairness has been observed in early infancy. Because many studies of fairness in adults have used economic games such as the Ultimatum Game, it has been difficult to compare fairness between adults and infants. Further, recent studies have suggested that social information about actors who behave fairly or unfairly may influence the judgement of fairness in infants. Therefore, to c...

Procedural fairness plays a prominent role in the social discourse concerning the marketplace in particular, and social institutions in general. Random procedures are a simple case, and they have found application in several important social allocation decisions. We investigate random procedures in the laboratory. We find that an unbiased random procedure is an acceptable substitute for an unbi...

Fairness is a desirable property in secure computation; informally it means that if one party gets the output of the function, then all parties get the output. Alas, an implication of Cleve’s result (STOC 86) is that when there is no honest majority, in particular in the important case of the two-party setting, there exist functions that cannot be computed with fairness. In a surprising result,...

Optical burst switching (OBS) is a promising switching technology for next-generation Internet backbone networks. The main objectives of the dissertation was to provide fairness from various aspects, including rate and distance fairness, to OBS networks without degrading the loss probability or throughput. This dissertation proposes a rate fairness preemption (RFP) scheme to achieve max-min fai...