NDLI: Equitable Cost Allocations via PrimalDual-Type Algorithms

Content Provider	Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Author	Jain, Kamal Vazirani, Vijay V.
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Perhaps the strongest notion of truth-revealing in a cost sharing mechanism is group strategyproofness. However, matters are not so clear-cut on fairness, and many different, sometimes even conflicting, notions of fairness have been proposed which have relevance in different situations. We present a large class of group strategyproof cost sharing methods, for submodular cost functions, satisfying a wide range of fairness criteria, thereby allowing the service provider to choose a method that best satisfies the notion of fairness that is most relevant to its application. Our class includes the DuttaRay egalitarian method as a special case. It also includes a new cost sharing method, which we call the opportunity egalitarian method.
Starting Page	241
Ending Page	256
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00975397
DOI	10.1137/060658448
e-ISSN	10957111
Journal	SIAM Journal on Computing (SMJCAT)
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	38
Language	English
Publisher	Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Publisher Date	2008-03-28
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity opportunity egalitarian method cost sharing methods group strategyproof mechanism submodular cost functions fairness in cost sharing Analysis of algorithms Cooperative games
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Mathematics Computer Science

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Equitable Cost Allocations via PrimalDual-Type Algorithms