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A fundamental resource allocation setting is the random assignment problem in which agents express preferences over objects that are then randomly allocated to the agents. In 2001, Bogomolnaia and Moulin presented the probabilistic serial…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Haris Aziz , Pang Luo , Christine Rizkallah

Consider the problem of assigning indivisible objects to agents with strict ordinal preferences over objects, where each agent is interested in consuming at most one object, and objects have integer minimum and maximum quotas. We define an…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-12-22 Marek Bojko

We study the assignment problem of objects to agents with heterogeneous preferences under distributional constraints. Each agent is associated with a publicly known type and has a private ordinal ranking over objects. We are interested in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Itai Ashlagi , Amin Saberi , Ali Shameli

We study the problem of assigning indivisible objects to agents where each is to receive at most one. To ensure fairness in the absence of monetary compensation, we consider random assignments. Random Priority, also known as Random Serial…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-24 Christian Basteck

We investigate the problem of random assignment of indivisible goods, in which each agent has an ordinal preference and a constraint. Our goal is to characterize the conditions under which there always exists a random assignment that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yasushi Kawase , Hanna Sumita , Yu Yokoi

We study stochastic object assignment problems in which objects may have minimum and maximum requirements, such as with classes with upper and lower enrollment bounds. We construct a new random assignment mechanism, the minimums…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-27 Will Sandholtz , Andrew Tai

For assignment problems where agents, specifying ordinal preferences, are allocated indivisible objects, two widely studied randomized mechanisms are the Random Serial Dictatorship (RSD) and Probabilistic Serial Rule (PS). These two…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Hadi Hosseini , Kate Larson , Robin Cohen

We consider the problem of allocating indivisible objects to agents when agents have strict preferences over objects. There are inherent trade-offs between competing notions of efficiency, fairness and incentives in assignment mechanisms.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-11-02 Priyanka Shende , Manish Purohit

We consider the discrete assignment problem in which agents express ordinal preferences over objects and these objects are allocated to the agents in a fair manner. We use the stochastic dominance relation between fractional or randomized…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Haris Aziz , Serge Gaspers , Simon Mackenzie , Toby Walsh

This paper considers the problem of randomly assigning a set of objects to a set of agents based on the ordinal preferences of agents. We generalize the well-known immediate acceptance algorithm to the afore-mentioned random environments…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-04-20 Yajing Chen , Patrick Harless , Zhenhua Jiao

Motivated by a problem of scheduling unit-length jobs with weak preferences over time-slots, the random assignment problem (also called the house allocation problem) is considered on a uniform preference domain. For the subdomain in which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Jay Sethuraman , Chun Ye

We study the problem of allocating multiple objects to agents without transferable utilities, where each agent may receive more than one object according to a quota. Under lexicographic preferences, we characterize the set of strategyproof,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Hadi Hosseini , Kate Larson

We propose multi-type probabilistic serial (MPS) and multi-type random priority (MRP) as extensions of the well known PS and RP mechanisms to the multi-type resource allocation problem (MTRA) with partial preferences. In our setting, there…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Haibin Wang , Sujoy Sikdar , Xiaoxi Guo , Lirong Xia , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang

The probabilistic serial (PS) rule is one of the most prominent randomized rules for the assignment problem. It is well-known for its superior fairness and welfare properties. However, PS is not immune to manipulative behaviour by the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Haris Aziz , Serge Gaspers , Nick Mattei , Nina Narodytska , Toby Walsh

In multi-type resource allocation (MTRA) problems, there are p $\ge$ 2 types of items, and n agents, who each demand one unit of items of each type, and have strict linear preferences over bundles consisting of one item of each type. For…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Xiaoxi Guo , Sujoy Sikdar , Haibin Wang , Lirong Xia , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang

I study the problem of allocating objects among agents without using money. Agents can receive several objects and have dichotomous preferences, meaning that they either consider objects to be acceptable or not. In this setup, the…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2018-07-09 Josue Ortega

The probabilistic serial (PS) rule is one of the most prominent randomized rules for the assignment problem. It is well-known for its superior fairness and welfare properties. However, PS is not immune to manipulative behaviour by the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-28 Haris Aziz , Serge Gaspers , Simon Mackenzie , Nicholas Mattei , Nina Narodytska , Toby Walsh

We consider the allocation of indivisible objects when agents have preferences over their own allocations, but share the ownership of the resources to be distributed. Examples might include seats in public schools, faculty offices, and time…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-09-07 Mustafa Oğuz Afacan , Inácio Bó

A principal must allocate a set of heterogeneous tasks (or objects) among multiple agents. The principal has preferences over the allocation. Each agent has preferences over which tasks they are assigned, which are their private…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-29 Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey

We study the problem of mechanism design for allocating a set of indivisible items among agents with private preferences on items. We are interested in such a mechanism that is strategyproof (where agents' best strategy is to report their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Ankang Sun , Bo Chen
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