Fairness in Long-Term Participatory Budgeting

Authors: Martin Lackner, Jan Maly, Simon Rey

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical This paper presents a first formal framework for long-term PB, based on a sequence of budgeting problems as main input. We introduce a theory of fairness for this setting, focusing on three main concepts that apply to types (groups) of voters: (i) achieving equal welfare for all types, (ii) minimizing inequality of welfare (as measured by the Gini coefficient), and (iii) achieving equal welfare in the long run. For different notions of welfare, we investigate under which conditions these criteria can be satisfied, and analyze the computational complexity of verifying whether they hold.
Researcher Affiliation Academia DBAI, TU Wien, Vienna 2Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
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Open Datasets No The paper does not describe the use of any dataset for training or evaluation, as it is a theoretical work.
Dataset Splits No The paper does not discuss dataset splits (training, validation, test) as it is a theoretical work.
Hardware Specification No The paper is theoretical and does not report on experiments, thus no hardware specifications are provided.
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Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical and does not report on experiments, thus no specific experimental setup details like hyperparameters or training configurations are provided.