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max-min fairness

max-min fairness noun: the fairness achieved by an allocation if and only if the allocation is feasible and an attempt to increase the allocation of any participant necessarily results in the decrease in the allocation of some other participant with an equal or smaller allocation.

Noun

max-min fairness (uncountable)

  1. The fairness achieved by an allocation if and only if the allocation is feasible and an attempt to increase the allocation of any participant necessarily results in the decrease in the allocation of some other participant with an equal or smaller allocation.

Origin of max-min fairness

See maximum and minimum.

Questions about max-min fairness

What does max-min fairness mean?
Max-min fairness means the fairness achieved by an allocation if and only if the allocation is feasible and an attempt to increase the allocation of any participant necessarily results in the decrease in the allocation of some other participant with an equal or smaller allocation.
What part of speech is max-min fairness?
Max-min fairness is a noun.

Words near max-min fairness in the dictionary

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  2. max out
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  5. max-level
  6. max-min fairness
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  9. max.
  10. maxacalcitol
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