The demographic disparity of biometric systems has led to serious concerns regarding their societal impact as well applicability such in private and public domains. A quantitative evaluation fairness is an important step towards understanding, assessment, mitigation bias applications. While few, existing measures are based on post-decision data (such verification accuracy) systems, we discuss h...

Being able to effectively measure the notion of fairness is of vital importance, as it can provide insight about the formation and evolution of complex patterns and phenomena, such as social preferences, collaboration, group structures and social conflicts. This paper presents a comparative study for quantitatively modelling the notion of fairness in one-to-many resource allocation scenarios — ...

We consider the problem of creating fair course timetables in the setting of a university. Our motivation is to improve the overall satisfaction of individuals concerned (students, teachers, etc.) by providing a fair timetable to them. The central idea is that undesirable arrangements in the course timetable, i. e., violations of soft constraints, should be distributed in a fair way among the i...

We present a set of five axioms for fairness measures in resource allocation. A family of fairness measures satisfying the axioms is constructed. Well-known notions such as αfairness, Jain’s index and entropy are shown to be special cases. Properties of fairness measures satisfying the axioms are proven, including Schur-concavity. Among the engineering implications is a new understanding of α-f...

Two methods for comparing impact factors and citation rates across fields of science are tested against each other using citations to the 3,695 journals in the Science Citation Index 2010 (CDRom version of SCI) and the 11 field categories used for the Science and Engineering Indicators of the US National Science Board. We compare (i) normalization by counting citations in proportion to the leng...

Two methods for comparing impact factors and citation rates across fields of science are tested against each other using citations to the 3,705 journals in the Science Citation Index 2010 (CD-Rom version of SCI) and the 13 field categories used for the Science and Engineering Indicators of the U.S. National Science Board. We compare (a) normalization by counting citations in proportion to the l...

IEEE 802.16 networks are going to provide broadband wireless access with quality of service (QoS) guarantee. In all of services, real-time video traffic plays an impeditive role because of its varying bit-rate and stringent delay constraint. To the best of our knowledge, no call admission control (CAC) and scheduling schemes cover throughput expectation, delay constraint and fairness requiremen...

A cooperative ratio-based scheduling scheme with minimal signaling that enhances network throughput and fairness in a wireless ad hoc network is presented in this paper. Throughput maximization problem under fairness constraint in a finite horizon is formulated as a novel multiwindow optimization problem. Through analysis users’ thresholds are shown to be time variant for throughput maximizatio...

Layered multicast is a promising technique for distributing video to a set of heterogeneous receivers. While several layered multicast approaches have been proposed, prior work usually perform adaptation on the receiver’s side and use static rate allocation techniques at the sender’s side. In this paper, we show an adaptation framework that improves stability and fairness of receivers by employ...

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the next generation wireless communication network with fast connectivity and high mobility to support variety of applications like video conferencing, video streaming, file transfer, web browsing etc. LTE system effectively utilizes the resources by dynamically scheduling the users in both frequency and time domain. However, scheduling algorithms are not defined in...