Fair and Efficient Social Choice in Dynamic Settings

Abstract

We study a dynamic social choice problem in which an alternative is chosen at each round according to the reported valuations of a set of agents. In the interests of obtaining a solution that is both efficient and fair, we aim to maximize the long-term Nash social welfare, which is the product of all agents' utilities. We present and analyze two greedy algorithms for this problem, including the classic Proportional Fair (PF) algorithm. We analyze several versions of the algorithms and how they relate, and provide an axiomatization of PF. Finally, we evaluate the algorithms on data gathered from a computer systems application.

Cite

Text

Freeman et al. "Fair and Efficient Social Choice in Dynamic Settings." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017. doi:10.24963/IJCAI.2017/639

Markdown

[Freeman et al. "Fair and Efficient Social Choice in Dynamic Settings." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2017/freeman2017ijcai-fair/) doi:10.24963/IJCAI.2017/639

BibTeX

@inproceedings{freeman2017ijcai-fair,
  title     = {{Fair and Efficient Social Choice in Dynamic Settings}},
  author    = {Freeman, Rupert and Zahedi, Seyed Majid and Conitzer, Vincent},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2017},
  pages     = {4580-4587},
  doi       = {10.24963/IJCAI.2017/639},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2017/freeman2017ijcai-fair/}
}