TY - GEN
T1 - Discrimination between social groups
T2 - 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, SIMULTECH 2021
AU - Bennati, null
AU - Jonker, Catholijn M.
AU - Murukannaiah, Pradeep K.
AU - Rhythima, null
AU - Verwaart, Tim
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The bargaining power of prosumers in a market can vary significantly. Participants can range from industrial participants to powerful and less powerful citizens. Existing trade mechanisms in such markets, e.g., in rural India’s energy trade market, show occurrences of discrimination, exclusion, and unfairness. We study how discrimination affects market access, efficiency, and demand satisfaction for the discriminating and discriminated groups via an agent-based simulation, incorporating the available real data. We introduce a mechanism for such markets that is designed for the values of inclusion and equal opportunities. The crux of our mechanism is that goods are divided into smaller units, as determined by the market participants’ surplus and demands, and traded anonymously via agents representing the prosumers. We evaluate six hypotheses in a case study about energy trade in rural India, where members of a caste known as Dalits are discriminated by Others. We show that anonymization contributes to the value of inclusion, and the combination of anonymization and inclusion contributes to equal opportunities with respect to market access for both Dalits and Others.
AB - The bargaining power of prosumers in a market can vary significantly. Participants can range from industrial participants to powerful and less powerful citizens. Existing trade mechanisms in such markets, e.g., in rural India’s energy trade market, show occurrences of discrimination, exclusion, and unfairness. We study how discrimination affects market access, efficiency, and demand satisfaction for the discriminating and discriminated groups via an agent-based simulation, incorporating the available real data. We introduce a mechanism for such markets that is designed for the values of inclusion and equal opportunities. The crux of our mechanism is that goods are divided into smaller units, as determined by the market participants’ surplus and demands, and traded anonymously via agents representing the prosumers. We evaluate six hypotheses in a case study about energy trade in rural India, where members of a caste known as Dalits are discriminated by Others. We show that anonymization contributes to the value of inclusion, and the combination of anonymization and inclusion contributes to equal opportunities with respect to market access for both Dalits and Others.
KW - Agent-based Simulation
KW - Discrimination
KW - Inclusion
KW - Values
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111724782&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5220/0010544100710082
DO - 10.5220/0010544100710082
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85111724782
T3 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, SIMULTECH 2021
SP - 71
EP - 82
BT - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, SIMULTECH 2021
A2 - Wagner, Gerd
A2 - Werner, Frank
A2 - Oren, Tuncer
A2 - De Rango, Floriano
PB - SciTePress
Y2 - 7 July 2021 through 9 July 2021
ER -