Boosting sortition via proportional representation

S Ebadian, E Micha - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.00913, 2024 - arxiv.org
Sortition is based on the idea of choosing randomly selected representatives for decision
making. The main properties that make sortition particularly appealing are fairness--all the …

Committee Monotonic Proportional Representation: A New Voting Rule and Impossibility Results

H Aziz, P Lederer, A Ritossa - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19689, 2024 - arxiv.org
We study committee voting rules under ranked preferences, which map the voters'
preference relations to a subset of the alternatives of predefined size. In this setting, the …

Proportional Fairness in Non-Centroid Clustering

I Caragiannis, E Micha, N Shah - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.23273, 2024 - arxiv.org
We revisit the recently developed framework of proportionally fair clustering, where the goal
is to provide group fairness guarantees that become stronger for groups of data points …

Towards Fair and Efficient Public Transportation: A Bus Stop Model

M Bullinger, E Elkind, M Latifian - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.08784, 2024 - arxiv.org
We consider a stylized formal model of public transportation, where a set of agents need to
travel along a given road, and there is a bus that runs the length of this road. Each agent has …

Fair and Efficient Social Decision Making

PE Micha - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Designing decision-making algorithms that treat people fairly, use limited resources
efficiently, and foster social good is of high importance. We contribute toward this direction …