Modelling and Classification of Fairness Patterns for Designing Sustainable Information Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17894v1
• Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 21:23:56 GMT
• Title: Modelling and Classification of Fairness Patterns for Designing Sustainable Information Systems
• Authors: Christophe Ponsard, Bérengère Nihoul, Mounir Touzani,
• Abstract summary: This paper explores the concept of fairness in sociotechnical system design. It is based on a reference sustainability meta-model capturing the concepts of value, assumption, regulation, metric and task.
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• Abstract: Designing sustainable systems involves complex interactions between environmental resources, social impacts, and economic issues. In a constrained world, the challenge is to achieve a balanced design across those dimensions while avoiding several barriers to adoption. This paper explores the concept of fairness in sociotechnical system design, including its information system component. It is based on a reference sustainability meta-model capturing the concepts of value, assumption, regulation, metric and task. Starting from a set of published cases, different fairness patterns were identified and structured in a library enabling the application of strategies for adoption, anticipation, distributive justice, and transparency. They were generalised and documented using an existing sustainability template. An extension to the initial meta-model is also proposed to identify and reason on assumptions and barriers to reach the desired values. Finally, the validation of our work is discussed using two case studies, respectively addressing the fairness to manage the COVID-19 crisis and the medico-social follow-up of childhood.

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