Which Is the Fairest (Rent Division) of Them All?

Abstract: What is a fair way to assign rooms to several housemates, and divide the rent between them? This is not just a theoretical question: many people have used the Spliddit website to obtain envy-free solutions to rent division instances. Continue reading

The Dilemma of Human-Like Collective Systems

Abstract: Researchers that study Human-Like computing mainly aim to understand how systems can emulate human cognitive performance. However, when Human-Like systems are designed for sharing economy applications in which humans have to collaborate in order to achieve a desired task, Continue reading

Online Mechanism Design for Vehicle-to-Grid Car Parks

Abstract: Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) is a promising approach whereby electric vehicles (EVs) are used to store excess electricity supply (e.g., from renewable sources), which is sold back to the grid in times of scarcity. In this paper we consider the setting Continue reading

Diversity-Awareness – The Key to Human-Like Computing?

Abstract: While AI has recently produced impressive systems that achieve human-like performance at challenging tasks, these systems tell us very little about how human intelligence works. In particular, they do not address the problem of composing knowledge and behaviour incrementally Continue reading

Diversity-Aware Recommendation for Human Collectives

Abstract: Sharing economy applications need to coordinate humans, each of whom may have different preferences over the provided service. Traditional approaches model this as a resource allocation problem and solve it by identifying matches between users and resources. These require Continue reading