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AgroAskAI: A Multi-Agentic AI Framework for Supporting Smallholder Farmers' Enquiries Globally
Nadine Angela Cantonjos, Arpita Biswas
Agricultural regions in rural areas face damage from climate-related risks, including droughts, heavy rainfall, and shifting weather patterns. Prior research calls for adaptive ris…
Fairness for Workers Who Pull the Arms: An Index Based Policy for Allocation of Restless Bandit Tasks
Arpita Biswas, Jackson A. Killian, Paula Rodriguez Diaz +2
Motivated by applications such as machine repair, project monitoring, and anti-poaching patrol scheduling, we study intervention planning of stochastic processes under resource con…
Ranked Prioritization of Groups in Combinatorial Bandit Allocation
Lily Xu, Arpita Biswas, Fei Fang +1
Preventing poaching through ranger patrols protects endangered wildlife, directly contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goal 15 of life on land. Combinatorial bandits have…
COVID-19: Strategies for Allocation of Test Kits
Arpita Biswas, Shruthi Bannur, Prateek Jain +1
With the increasing spread of COVID-19, it is important to systematically test more and more people. The current strategy for test-kit allocation is mostly rule-based, focusing on…
FairRec: Two-Sided Fairness for Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Platforms
Gourab K Patro, Arpita Biswas, Niloy Ganguly +2
We investigate the problem of fair recommendation in the context of two-sided online platforms, comprising customers on one side and producers on the other. Traditionally, recommen…
Quantifying Infra-Marginality and Its Trade-off with Group Fairness
Arpita Biswas, Siddharth Barman, Amit Deshpande +1
In critical decision-making scenarios, optimizing accuracy can lead to a biased classifier, hence past work recommends enforcing group-based fairness metrics in addition to maximiz…
Demand Prediction and Placement Optimization for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan, Arpita Biswas, Alefiya Lightwala +3
Effective placement of charging stations plays a key role in Electric Vehicle (EV) adoption. In the placement problem, given a set of candidate sites, an optimal subset needs to be…
Managing Overstaying Electric Vehicles in Park-and-Charge Facilities
Arpita Biswas, Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan, Partha Dutta
With the increase in adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs), proper utilization of the charging infrastructure is an emerging challenge for service providers. Overstaying of an EV aft…