One of the Multi-Agent Systems that is widely used by various government agencies, buyers and sellers in a market economy, in such a manner so as to attain optimized resource allocation, is the Combinatorial Auctioning System (CAS). We study another important aspect of resource allocations in CAS, namely fairness. We present two important notions of fairness in CAS, extended fairness and basic ...

We consider sequential and concurrent probabilistic processes and propose a general notion of fairness with respect to probabilistic choice, which allows to express various notions of fairness such as process fairness and event fairness. We show the soundness of proving the validity of qualitative properties of probabilistic processes under fairness constraints in the sense that whenever all fa...

We consider sequential and concurrent probabilistic processes and propose a general notion of fairness with respect to probabilistic choice, which allows to express various notions of fairness such as process fairness and event fairness. We show the soundness of proving the validity of qualitative properties of probabilistic processes under fairness constraints in the sense that whenever all fa...

This paper addresses Available Bit Rate (ABR) service fairness in wide area ATM networks. In traac management, fairness is generally understood as equally sharing the available bandwidth of a link among all its contending users. The most widely used speciic fairness measure is Max-Min fairness 14]. Fairness is a very important performance measurement for ABR ow control, but no mathematical fair...

Throughput, fairness, and energy consumption are often conflicting objectives in multi-hop wireless networks. In this paper, we propose the notion of lexicographical maxmin energy efficiency throughput fairness that achieves throughput fairness per unit energy. Compared with maxmin throughput fairness and maxmin time fairness, the proposed scheme allocates more bandwidth to nodes with relay req...

In financial decision making, perceived fairness can have substantial influence on individuals’ choices. In this paper, we investigate process and outcome dimensions that moderate perceived fairness for a variety of financial products. Our hypotheses draw from the existing fairness literatures in marketing, economics, and organizational behavior, and relate the fairness concepts from those exis...

A quantitative measure for the fairness of network resource distribution was proposed in Jain, Chiu and Hawe [1]. This fairness function is widely adopted in network design and management. This paper proposes a new distribution fairness score function. Compared the proposed fairness function to the one by Jain, Chiu and Hawe, the proposed fairness function keeps all the nice properties that Jai...

Efficient packet scheduling in CDMA cellular networks is a challenging problem due to the time variant and stochastic nature of the channel fading process. Selection diversity is one of the most effective techniques utilizing random and independent variations of diverse channels to improve the performance of communication over fading channels. In this paper, we propose two packet scheduling sch...