Fairness and voting

Group Fairness in Multiwinner Voting

We study multiwinner voting problems when there is an additional requirement that the selected committee should be fair with respect to attributes such as gender, ethnicity, or political parties. Every setting of an attribute gives rise to a group, and the goal is to ensure that each group is neither over nor under represented in the selected committee. Prior work has largely focused on designi...

Security matters : privacy in voting and fairness in digital exchange

actions, 130ACP, 57agent, 57semantics, 60state, 59anonymous receive, 61anonymous send, 61applied π, 52authorities, 10 ballot, 10blind signatures, 19, 73 cast, 10choice function, 54, 63choice group, 67choice indistinguishability, 67coercion-resistance, 52compliant device, 123conditional choice, 57, 62content, 105Counter, 10, 84 ...

Voting and different ranking orders in DEA

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique now widely use for efficiency evaluation of a set of Decision Making Units (DMUs). As regards of the necessity for ranking efficient units different DEA models presented each of which has advantages and rank efficient units from special aspects. Note that all the existing ranking models have disadvantages, as well and there is not a model in which all t...

Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy

All societies face the need to make judgments about what interventions (both public health and personal medical) to provide to their populations under reasonable resource constraints. Their decisions should be informed by good evidence and arguments from health technology assessment (HTA). But if HTA restricts itself to evaluations of safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness, it risks being vie...

Correction: Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy