A Pie Allocation to Sharing Groups
Prof. Anat Lerner (The Open University of Israel)
CSL SEMINAR SERIESDATE: 2003-08-14
TIME: 14:00:00 - 15:00:00
LOCATION: DCS Seminar Room
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ABSTRACT:
A pie allocation to individuals is a well known problem. This paper deals with a special structured pie allocation problem. Instead of allocating the pie to individuals, we allocate the pie to groups, called sharing groups. The groups are not necessarily disjoint, so each individual can belong to one or more sharing groups. A slice given to a sharing group can be used by each member of the group as a public good, while across groups the pie is a private good. The presentation will explain the motivation for this problem, and deal with the question: Given the set of sharing groups, what would be a reasonable allocation of the pie to the groups.
BIO:
Anat Lerner holds a B.Sc. and Msc. in Computer Science from the Technion and a Ph.D. from Tel Aviv university, Israel. She's currently the head of the Computer Science Dept., The Open University of Israel. The Open University of Israel - OUI - is a distance education university. With more than 36,000 students each semester, 500 different courses and 110 study centers spread all over Israel, the OUI is the biggest university in Israel. The Computer Science Department runs more than 40 undergraduate courses and 20 graduate courses and seminars, and has about 40 staff members and more than 100 tutors. Anat is the receipient of the first Women in Engineering & Information Sciences Fellowship awarded by the National Institute of Engineering & Information Sciences.
