We study a particular restitution problem where there is an indivisible good (land or property) over which two agents have rights: the dispossessed agent and the owner. A third party, possibly the government, seeks to resolve the situation by assigning rights to one and compensate the other. There is also a maximum amount of money available for the compensation. We characterize a family of asym...

Today’s cloud networks are shared among many tenants. Bandwidth guarantees and work conservation are two key properties to ensure predictable performance for tenant applications and high network utilization for providers. Despite significant efforts, very little prior work can really achieve both properties simultaneously even some of them claimed so. In this paper, we present QShare, an in-net...

The top image shows a set of scales, which are intended to bring mind the ideas balance and fair experimentation focus our article on genetic programming benchmarks in this issue. Image by Elena Mozhvilo made available under Unsplash license https://unsplash.com/photos/j06gLuKK0GM.

Data generated by the global food system is crucial in transformation towards sustainable, resilient, and high-quality production. Although amount of potentially useful data growing rapidly, its (re)use still limited. The FAIR-principles have been developed for making findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable both humans machines. This paper explores further operationalization FAIR principl...

We investigate how the behaviors of malicious trusted parties affect participants of optimistic non-repudiation protocols. We introduce a notion of risk balance for exchange protocols. Intuitively, risk balance refers to fairness in the amount of protection a protocol offers to the participants against malicious trustees. We explore how risk balance relates to the notions of accountable trustee...

The BALANCE constraint introduced by Beldiceanu ensures solutions are balanced. This is useful when, for example, there is a requirement for solutions to be fair. BALANCE bounds the difference B between the minimum and maximum number of occurrences of the values assigned to the variables. We show that achieving domain consistency on BALANCE is NP-hard. We therefore introduce a variant, ALLBALAN...