English

Two Algorithms for Additive and Fair Division of Mixed Manna

Computer Science and Game Theory 2020-07-09 v1

Abstract

We consider a fair division model in which agents have positive, zero and negative utilities for items. For this model, we analyse one existing fairness property - EFX - and three new and related properties - EFX0_0, EFX3^3 and EF13^3 - in combination with Pareto-optimality. With general utilities, we give a modified version of an existing algorithm for computing an EF13^3 allocation. With α/0/α-\alpha/0/\alpha utilities, this algorithm returns an EFX3^3 and PO allocation. With absolute identical utilities, we give a new algorithm for an EFX and PO allocation. With α/0/β-\alpha/0/\beta utilities, this algorithm also returns such an allocation. We report some new impossibility results as well.

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@article{arxiv.2007.04129,
  title  = {Two Algorithms for Additive and Fair Division of Mixed Manna},
  author = {Martin Aleksandrov and Toby Walsh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.04129},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

14 pages, 2 algorithms, 1 table, 1 figure, KI 2020

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