Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "fairness"
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Children’s reasoning about distributive and retributive justice across development.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2016)Research on distributive justice indicates that preschool-age children take issues of equity and merit into account when distributing desirable items, but that they often prefer to see desirable items allocated equally in ... -
A Choice Prediction Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction
(MDPI AG, 2011)Two independent, but related, choice prediction competitions are organized that focus on behavior in simple two-person extensive form games http://sites.google.com/site/extformpredcomp/): one focuses on predicting the ... -
Corruption, Inequality, and Fairness
(Elsevier, 2005)Bigger governments raise the possibilities for corruption; more corruption may in turn raise the support for redistributive policies that intend to correct the inequality and injustice generated by corruption. We formalize ... -
Dimensions of Disadvantage: Normative and Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Public Insurance on Low-Income Children and Families
(2012-07-27)This dissertation considers some challenges to delivering effective and equitable health care to disadvantaged children and families in the United States. Chapter one examines whether expanded access to health insurance ... -
Fair Information Sharing for Treasure Hunting
(Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2015)In a search task, a group of agents compete to be the first to find the solution. Each agent has different private information to incorporate into its search. This problem is inspired by settings such as scientific research, ... -
Fairness with an Honest Minority and a Rational Majority
(Springer Verlag, 2009)We provide a simple protocol for secret reconstruction in any threshold secret sharing scheme, and prove that it is fair when executed with many rational parties together with a small minority of honest parties. That is, ... -
Fairness, Risk Preferences and Independence: Impossibility Theorems
(Elsevier, 2012)The most widely used economic models of social preferences are specified only for certain outcomes. There are two obvious methods of extending them to lotteries. If we do so by expected utility theory, so that the independence ... -
Fidelity, Fairness and Responsibility through the Lens of Sequential Decision Making
(2024-01-19)As methods of artificial intelligence continue to become increasingly important to support robust decision making in regard to deciding how to act on the basis of the right data, learning to act over time while supporting ... -
Incentive-Aware Machine Learning for Decision Making
(2022-08-12)Machine Learning algorithms are increasingly being deployed in consequential decision-making for people's lives. These decisions affect widely different aspects of our lives; e.g., Machine Learning algorithms decide what ... -
OpenXAI: A Comprehensive Framework for Transparent Evaluation and Benchmarking of Explanation Methods for Machine Learning Models
(2023-06-30)Machine learning (ML) models are being used increasingly in critical, life-changing decisions in various fields, such as medicine, finance, law, and science. To ensure that the decision-making processes and final predictions ... -
Quantifying Effects of Automated Noise Auditing Notices and Decision Structuring on Noise, Accuracy, and Fairness in Human Decision-Making
(2022-05-23)Subjective decision-making by a single human decision-maker is pervasive in modern society; the effects of these decisions in domains like criminal justice are extremely significant. Prior work has aimed to improve human ... -
Robustness, Generalization and Fairness in Learning: Analysis and Design
(2022-05-17)Machine learning has achieved state-of-the-art performance in many areas, including image recognition and natural language processing. However, there are still many challenges and mysteries attracting numerous researchers. ... -
The Space between Us and Them: Perceptions of Status Differences
(SAGE Publications, 2009)The current study examines perceived status differences among ethnic groups. Consistent with a group dominance perspective, three samples of American university students revealed that perceived ethnic status differences ...