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Cake-cutting is a playful name for the fair division of a heterogeneous, divisible good among agents, a well-studied problem at the intersection of mathematics, economics, and artificial intelligence. The cake-cutting literature is rich and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Peter Kern , Daniel Neugebauer , Jörg Rothe , René L. Schilling , Dietrich Stoyan , Robin Weishaupt

We propose an online form of the cake cutting problem. This models situations where players arrive and depart during the process of dividing a resource. We show that well known fair division procedures like cut-and-choose and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-06 Toby Walsh

Cutting a cake is a metaphor for the problem of dividing a resource (cake) among several agents. The problem becomes non-trivial when the agents have different valuations for different parts of the cake (i.e. one agent may like chocolate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Payam Delgosha , Amin Gohari

In this article we propose a probabilistic framework in order to study the fair division of a divisible good, e.g., a cake, between n players. Our framework follows the same idea than the ''Full independence model'' used in the study of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Guillaume Chèze

This article explores the intricate dynamics of the Nile Basin dispute, a complex conflict involving Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan. Our central argument is that we can gain unique insights into this dispute by employing the principles of game…

General Economics · Economics 2024-05-31 Dwayne Woods

We consider the setting of repeated fair division between two players, denoted Alice and Bob, with private valuations over a cake. In each round, a new cake arrives, which is identical to the ones in previous rounds. Alice cuts the cake at…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Simina Brânzei , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Reed Phillips , Suho Shin , Kun Wang

We consider the problem of fairly dividing a two dimensional heterogeneous good among multiple players. Applications include division of land as well as ad space in print and electronic media. Classical cake cutting protocols primarily…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Erel Segal-Halevi , Avinatan Hassidim , Yonatan Aumann

We study the proportional chore division problem where a protocol wants to divide an undesirable object, called chore, among $n$ different players. The goal is to find an allocation such that the cost of the chore assigned to each player be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi

We study the disproportionate version of the classical cake-cutting problem: how efficiently can we divide a cake, here $[0,1]$, among $n$ agents with different demands $\alpha_1, \alpha_2, \dots, \alpha_n$ summing to $1$? When all the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Logan Crew , Bhargav Narayanan , Sophie Spirkl

We study classic cake-cutting problems, but in discrete models rather than using infinite-precision real values, specifically, focusing on their communication complexity. Using general discrete simulations of classical infinite-precision…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Simina Brânzei , Noam Nisan

Consider $n$ players having preferences over the connected pieces of a cake, identified with the interval $[0,1]$. A classical theorem, found independently by Stromquist and by Woodall in 1980, ensures that, under mild conditions, it is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Frédéric Meunier , Shira Zerbib

We consider the following cake cutting game: Alice chooses a set P of n points in the square (cake) [0,1]^2, where (0,0) is in P; Bob cuts out n axis-parallel rectangles with disjoint interiors, each of them having a point of P as the lower…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-04-04 Tobias Christ , Andrea Francke , Heidi Gebauer , Jiří Matoušek , Takeaki Uno

We prove several results addressing the envy-free division problem in the presence of an unpredictable (secretive) player, called the "dragon". There are two basic scenarios. 1. There are $r-1$ players and a dragon. Once the "cake" is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Gaiane Panina , Rade Živaljević

Austin's moving knife procedure was originally introduced to find a consensus division of an interval/circular cake between two agents, each of whom believes that they receive exactly half of the cake. We generalise this in two ways: we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Josef Hanke , Ana Rita Pires

We propose an online form of the cake cutting problem. This models situations where agents arrive and depart during the process of dividing a resource. We show that well known fair division procedures like cut-and-choose and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-18 Toby Walsh

The problem of fair division known as "cake cutting" has been the focus of multiple papers spanning several decades. The most prominent problem in this line of work has been to bound the query complexity of computing an envy-free outcome in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Ioannis Caragiannis , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Alexandros Psomas , Daniel Schoepflin

We investigate the problem of fairly dividing a divisible heterogeneous resource, also known as a cake, among a set of agents who may have different entitlements. We characterize the existence of a connected strongly-proportional allocation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Zsuzsanna Jankó , Attila Joó , Erel Segal-Halevi , Sheung Man Yuen

We study the problem of fairly allocating a divisible resource, also known as cake cutting, with an additional requirement that the shares that different agents receive should be sufficiently separated from one another. This captures, for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Edith Elkind , Erel Segal-Halevi , Warut Suksompong

We study the problem of fair cake-cutting where each agent receives a connected piece of the cake. A division of the cake is deemed fair if it is equitable, which means that all agents derive the same value from their assigned piece. Prior…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Umang Bhaskar , A. R. Sricharan , Rohit Vaish

We study the fair allocation of a cake, which serves as a metaphor for a divisible resource, under the requirement that each agent should receive a contiguous piece of the cake. While it is known that no finite envy-free algorithm exists in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Paul W. Goldberg , Alexandros Hollender , Warut Suksompong