The Price of Fairness

In this paper we study resource allocation problems that involve multiple self-interested parties or players and a central decision maker. We introduce and study the price of fairness, which is the relative system efficiency loss under a “fair” allocation assuming that a fully efficient allocation i...

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Main Authors: Farias, Vivek F., Trichakis, Nikolaos, Bertsimas, Dimitris J
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Operations Research Center
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: INFORMS 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69093
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1985-1003
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5856-9246