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The Boltzmann fair division for distributive justice [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Fair division is a significant, long-standing problem and is closely related to social and economic justice. The conventional division methods such as cut-and-choose are hardly applicable to real-world problems because of their complexity and unrealistic
Ji-Won Park   +3 more
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The Shapley value for a fair division of group discounts for coordinating cooling loads. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
We consider a demand response program in which a block of apartments receive a discount from their electricity supplier if they ensure that their aggregate load from air conditioning does not exceed a predetermined threshold. The goal of the participants
Sasan Maleki   +7 more
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On the fair division of multiple stochastic pies to multiple agents within the Nash bargaining solution. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
The fair division of a surplus is one of the most widely examined problems. This paper focuses on bargaining problems with fixed disagreement payoffs where risk-neutral agents have reached an agreement that is the Nash-bargaining solution (NBS).
Athanasios C Karmperis   +3 more
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Fair division in Shaplay sense - case studies

open access: yesJournal of Modern Science, 2023
Objectives The aim of the work is to determine the Shapley value for the considered cases, important from the point of view of financial management. Material and methods Case descriptions, game theory, Shapley value Results In the examples considered ...
Agnieszka Surowiec, Tomasz Warowny
doaj   +1 more source

Relative Entropy in Determining Degressive Proportional Allocations

open access: yesEntropy, 2021
The principle of degressively proportional apportionment of goods, being a compromise between equality and proportionality, facilitates the application of many different allocation rules.
Katarzyna Cegiełka   +4 more
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Review of Social Workers Count: Numbers and Social Issues by Michael Anthony Lewis

open access: yesNumeracy, 2021
Lewis, Michael Anthony. 2017. Social Workers Count: Numbers and Social Issues. 2019. New York: Oxford University Press. 223 pp. ISBN 978-019046713-5 The numeracy movement, although largely birthed within the mathematics community, is an outside-the-box ...
Michael Catalano
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Exploring the implications of the Fair Trade USA certification for farm worker health and wellbeing at the first certified farm in the U.S.

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2023
Decades of interdisciplinary research suggest that fair trade certification may have significant implica­tions for the development of more equitable and sustainable agricultural practices.
Alissa Bilfield, Edmundo Hernandez
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An Equilibrium Analysis of Knaster’s Fair Division Procedure

open access: yesGames, 2013
In an incomplete information setting, we analyze the sealed bid auction proposed by Knaster (cf. Steinhaus (1948)). This procedure was designed to efficiently and fairly allocate multiple indivisible items when participants report their valuations ...
Matt Van Essen
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An Algorithmic Framework for Strategic Fair Division [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We study the paradigmatic fair division problem of allocating a divisible good among agents with heterogeneous preferences, commonly known as cake cutting. Classical cake cutting protocols are susceptible to manipulation.
Brânzei, Simina   +3 more
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Boundaries between Fair and Harmful Tax Competition

open access: yesJournal of Education, Health and Sport, 2016
The aim of this paper is to show boundaries between fair and harmful tax competition. The author analyses OECD’s reports and literature related to the tax competition.
Paweł Szwajdler
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