2014/07/11 by Toby Walsh, Walsh, Toby · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computational Complexity (cs.CC) #Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #I.2.4 #cs.AI #cs.CC #cs.GT
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1407.3130
To appear in Proc. of 37th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2014), Springer LNCS
arxiv created 2014/07/16 · arxiv updated 2014/07/17
How do we allocate scarcere sources? How do we fairly allocate costs? These are two pressing challenges facing society today. I discuss two recent projects at NICTA concerning resource and cost allocation. In the first, we have been working with FoodBank Local, a social startup working in collaboration with food bank charities around the world to optimise the logistics of collecting and distributing donated food. Before we can distribute this food, we must decide how to allocate it to different charities and food kitchens. This gives rise to a fair division problem with several new dimensions, rarely considered in the literature. In the second, we have been looking at cost allocation within the distribution network of a large multinational company. This also has several new dimensions rarely considered in the literature.