Ying Wu College of Computing and Ben-Gurion University Partnership Presents at VLDB in China

Professor Baruch Schieber and Associate Professor Senjuti Basu Roy from the Ying Wu College of Computing and Assistant Professor Nimrod Talmon from Ben-Gurion University presented a tutorial at the 50th International conference on Very Large databases (VLDB 2024), a flagship data management conference, in Guangzhou, China.

The title, Fairness in Preference Queries: Social Choice Theories Meet Data Management, aims to adapt different preference aggregation methods from social choice theories, summarize how existing research has handled fairness over these methods, identify their limitations and outline new research directions.

The abstract states: “Given a large number (notationally m) of users’ (members or voters) preferences as inputs over a large number of items or candidates (notationally n), preference queries leverage different preference aggregation methods to aggregate individual preferences in a systematic manner and come up with a single output (either a complete order or top-k, ordered or unordered) that is most representative of the users’ preferences.”

The research was done through a collaboration between NJIT and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev as part of the Institute for Future Technologies(IFT).

IFT combines the academic and research capacities of two global institutions to form the northeast region’s next hub of technological innovation: with a purpose of providing graduate-level education, conducting applied research and development, and supporting innovation and entrepreneurship through technological commercialization efforts in cyber technology and civil and environmental engineering.