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These dilemmas also pervade distributed artificial intelligence, in domains such as automated negotiation, conflict resolution, or resource allocation, which aim to engineer self\u2010organized group behaviors. As evidenced by the well\u2010known Ultimatum Game, where a Proposer has to divide a resource with a Responder, payoff\u2010maximizing outcomes are frequently at odds with fairness. Eliciting equality in populations of self\u2010regarding agents requires judicious interventions. Here, we use knowledge about agents\u2019 social networks to implement fairness mechanisms, in the context of Multiplayer Ultimatum Games. We focus on network\u2010based role assignment and show that attributing the role of Proposer to low\u2010connected nodes increases the fairness levels in a population. 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