POTs: The revolution will not be optimized?

Abstract

Optimization systems infer, induce, and shape events in the real world to fulfill objective functions. Protective optimization technologies (POTs) reconfigure these events as a response to the effects of optimization on a group of users or local environment. POTs analyze how events (or lack thereof) affect users and environments, then manipulate these events to influence system outcomes, e.g., by altering the optimization constraints and poisoning system inputs.