This class of problems includes the maximum generalized assignment problem (GAP) 1 and a distributed caching problem (DCP) described in this paper. Given a β-approximation algorithm for finding the ...

A 2019 study found that an algorithm widely used in the U.S. for making decisions about enrollment in health care programs assigned white patients higher scores than Black patients with the same ...

Online pricing algorithms can game the system and ultimately end up costing the consumer more. And the impact of these program can go beyond just a few extra dollars at checkout.

Furthermore, in the development of algorithms, we need to ensure that datasets are unbiased. IBM’s AI Fairness 360 is an open source toolkit that helps developers test for bias in their datasets.