Temporal Fairness in Decision Making Problems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13208v1
• Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:36:58 GMT
• Title: Temporal Fairness in Decision Making Problems
• Authors: Manuel R. Torres, Parisa Zehtabi, Michael Cashmore, Daniele Magazzeni, Manuela Veloso,
• Abstract summary: We focus on how to reason over fairness from a temporal perspective, taking into account the fairness of a history of past decisions. We propose three approaches that incorporate temporal fairness in decision making problems formulated as optimization problems.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In this work we consider a new interpretation of fairness in decision making problems. Building upon existing fairness formulations, we focus on how to reason over fairness from a temporal perspective, taking into account the fairness of a history of past decisions. After introducing the concept of temporal fairness, we propose three approaches that incorporate temporal fairness in decision making problems formulated as optimization problems. We present a qualitative evaluation of our approach in four different domains and compare the solutions against a baseline approach that does not consider the temporal aspect of fairness.

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