In: Information and Software Technology, Vol. 31, No. 7, pages 371-386. 1989.
Abstract: Classification of fairneess notions has been proposed in many formalisms, but there still seems to be no general agreement on what fairness means and how it should be dealt with. The paper reviews major issues in the area of fairness, the purpose being to present a taxonomy of notions of fairness and to discusss the main directions taken and the implictions of choosing a particular approach. The object of this review is to identify common features of fairness definitions and to examine the adequacy, or, in some cases, the failure, of standard methods when appleid to deal with fairness.
Keywords: fairness, (taxonomy of).