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Network Slicing has emerged as a powerful technique to enable cost-effective, multi-tenant communications and services over a shared physical mobile network infrastructure. One major challenge of service provisioning in slice-enabled…

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We initiate a formal study of fairness for the $k$-server problem, where the objective is not only to minimize the total movement cost, but also to distribute the cost equitably among servers. We first define a general notion of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Mohammadreza Daneshvaramoli , Helia Karisani , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Shahin Kamali , Cameron Musco

In the classic cake-cutting problem (Steinhaus, 1948), a heterogeneous resource has to be divided among n agents with different valuations in a proportional way --- giving each agent a piece with a value of at least 1/n of the total. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Erel Segal-Halevi , Balázs Sziklai

This article deals with the cake cutting problem. In this setting, there exists two notions of fair division: proportional division (when there are n players, each player thinks to get at least 1/n of the cake) and envy-free division (each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Guillaume Chèze

We investigate online scheduling with commitment for parallel identical machines. Our objective is to maximize the total processing time of accepted jobs. As soon as a job has been submitted, the commitment constraint forces us to decide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Chris Schwiegelshohn , Uwe Schwiegelshohn

We study the fair division of divisible bad resources with strategic agents who can manipulate their private information to get a better allocation. Within certain constraints, we are particularly interested in whether truthful envy-free…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Mohammad Azharuddin Sanpui

With similarity-based content delivery, the request for a content can be satisfied by delivering a related content under a dissimilarity cost. This letter addresses the joint optimization of caching and similarity-based delivery decisions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Jizhe Zhou , Osvaldo Simeone , Xing Zhang , Wenbo Wang

To divide a cake into equal sized pieces most people use a knife and a mixture of luck and dexterity. These attempts are often met with varying success. Through precise geometric constructions performed with the knife replacing Euclid's…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Alexander Müller-Hermes

In Fair AI literature, the practice of maliciously creating unfair models that nevertheless satisfy fairness constraints is known as "cherry-picking". A cherry-picking model is a model that makes mistakes on purpose, selecting bad…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Marco Favier , Toon Calders

We study the dynamics of repeated fair division between two players, Alice and Bob, where Alice partitions a cake into two subsets and Bob chooses his preferred one over $T$ rounds. Alice aims to minimize her regret relative to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Simina Brânzei , Reed Phillips

Analyzing a distributed computation is a hard problem in general due to the combinatorial explosion in the size of the state-space with the number of processes in the system. By abstracting the computation, unnecessary explorations can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Himanshu Chauhan , Vijay K. Garg , Aravind Natarajan , Neeraj Mittal

In the (discrete) CNN problem, online requests appear as points in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Each request must be served before the next one is revealed. We have a server that can serve a request simply by aligning either its $x$ or $y$ coordinate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-20 John Augustine , Nick Gravin

We study the problem of allocating divisible resources among $n$ agents, hopefully in a fair and efficient manner. With the presence of strategic agents, additional incentive guarantees are also necessary, and the problem of designing fair…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Xiaohui Bei , Biaoshuai Tao , Jiajun Wu , Mingwei Yang

We prove an $\Omega(n^2)$ lower bound on the query complexity of local proportionality in the Robertson-Webb cake-cutting model. Local proportionality requires that each agent prefer their allocation to the average of their neighbors'…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Jamie Tucker-Foltz

In this article we study the problem of fair division. In particular we study a notion introduced by J. Barbanel that generalizes super envy-free fair division. We give a new proof of his result. Our approach allows us to give an explicit…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Guillaume Chèze , Luca Amodei

In this work, we study the problem of online mechanism design for resources allocation and pricing in cloud computing (RAPCC). We show that in general the allocation problems in RAPCC are NP-hard, and therefore we focus on designing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Weidong Ma , Bo Zheng , Tao Qin , Pingzhong Tang , Tie-Yan Liu

We tackle in this paper an online network resource allocation problem with job transfers. The network is composed of many servers connected by communication links. The system operates in discrete time; at each time slot, the administrator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-17 Ahmed Sid-Ali , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yiqiang Q. Zhao , Gennady Shaikhet , Amirhossein Asgharnia

In this paper, we consider the online version of the machine minimization problem (introduced by Chuzhoy et al., FOCS 2004), where the goal is to schedule a set of jobs with release times, deadlines, and processing lengths on a minimum…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Nikhil Devanur , Konstantin Makarychev , Debmalya Panigrahi , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

Algorithmic decision making systems are ubiquitous across a wide variety of online as well as offline services. These systems rely on complex learning methods and vast amounts of data to optimize the service functionality, satisfaction of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-27 Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Isabel Valera , Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Krishna P. Gummadi

This paper studies an online cost optimization problem for distributed storage and access. The goal is to dynamically create and delete copies of data objects over time at geo-distributed servers to serve access requests and minimize the…

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