Fairness in society

Cross-layer Packet-dependant OFDM Scheduling Based on Proportional Fairness

This paper assumes each user has more than one queue, derives a new packet-dependant proportional fairness power allocation pattern based on the sum of weight capacity and the packet’s priority in users’ queues, and proposes 4 new cross-layer packet-dependant OFDM scheduling schemes based on proportional fairness for heterogeneous classes of traffic. Scenario 1, scenario 2 and scenario 3 lead r...

The Effect of Personality Traits and Equity Sensitivity on the Employees’ Fairness Perception in the Lebanese Pharmaceutical Field

The pharmaceutical sector plays a fundamental role in supporting the economic development of a country. The performance of this sector is influenced by employees’ performance, which can be affected by the way employees perceive fairness at their workplace. Fairness perception can be affected by the equity sensitivity type and the personality traits of employees. The Lebanese context lacks studi...

Fairness and Respect in Obesity Prevention Policies: A Response to David Buchanan

Cooperative Benefit and Cost Games under Fairness Concerns

Solution concepts in cooperative games are based on either cost games or benefit games. Although cost games and benefit games are strategically equivalent, that is not the case in general for solution concepts. Motivated by this important observation, a new property called invariance property with respect to benefit/cost allocation is introduced in this paper. Since such a property can be regar...

The Present Situation of Fairness in Elementary Education

With the development of the society, there is a widespread public concern about the problem of “fairness of education”, which possesses the prominent characteristics of the times in different educational stage. This paper views from the angle of “elementary education”, then carry out analysis of the problem of fairness in starting point, educational process and the result, and gradually spread ...