Year: 2014
Type: preprint
Abstract: 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.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Walsh, Toby
Institutions: UNSW Sydney, Data61
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: No poverty
Open Access status: green
Funder: Australian Government
OpenAlex ID: W2950684935