On Principles of Fair Resource Allocation for Importance Weighted Agents

Resource allocation problems are concerned with the allocation of limited resources among competing activities so as to achieve the best performances. However, in systems which serve many users there is a need to respect some fairness rules while looking for the overall efficiency.The concepts of multiple criteria equitable optimization can effectively be used to generate various fair and efficient allocation schemes.In this paper we show how the importance weights allocated to several agents can be introduced into the fairness concepts and models.