A fair carpool scheduling algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Ronald Fagin;John H. Williams

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Research Division, San Jose, California;IBM Research Division, San Jose, California

  • Venue:
  • IBM Journal of Research and Development
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

We present a simple carpool scheduling algorithm in which no penalty is assessed to a carpool member who does not ride on any given day. The algorithm is shown to be fair, in a certain reasonable sense. The amount of bookkeeping grows only linearly with the number of carpool members.