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20182026
most citedOperational Research: Methods and Applications

120 citations · 131 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

math.OC2026

Optimal Combinatorial Testing with Constraints: The Balancing Act

Thiago Serra, Changkun Guan, Hunter Gehman +4

Imagine that you are in front of a cockpit with several on-off buttons. If you were to thoroughly test it, you would need to try a prohibitive number of configurations. But since m…

cs.AI2024

Assessing Group Fairness with Social Welfare Optimization

Violet Chen, J. N. Hooker, Derek Leben

Statistical parity metrics have been widely studied and endorsed in the AI community as a means of achieving fairness, but they suffer from at least two weaknesses. They disregard…

math.OC2023★ 120 cited

Operational Research: Methods and Applications

Fotios Petropoulos, Gilbert Laporte, Emel Aktas +79

Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include a variety of methods, models and algorithms that have been applied to a diverse and wide range of contexts. This…

physics.soc-ph2021

Political districting without geography

Gerdus Benade, Nam Ho-Nguyen, J. N. Hooker

Geographical considerations such as contiguity and compactness are necessary elements of political districting in practice. Yet an analysis of the problem without such constraints…

cs.CY2021

When is it permissible for artificial intelligence to lie? A trust-based approach

Tae Wan Kim, Tong, Lu +4

Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) used in industry settings can be trained to closely mimic human behaviors, including lying and deception. However, lying is often a nece…

cs.AI2021★ 2 cited

Fairness through Social Welfare Optimization

Violet Xinying Chen, J. N. Hooker

We propose social welfare optimization as a general paradigm for formalizing fairness in AI systems. We argue that optimization models allow formulation of a wide range of fairness…