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Resource allocation is crucial for the performance optimization of cloud-assisted multi-agent intelligence. Traditional methods often overlook agents' diverse computational capabilities and complex operating environments, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Oguzhan Baser , Kaan Kale , Po-han Li , Sandeep Chinchali

Blockchain systems have been a part of mainstream academic research, and a hot topic at that. It has spread to almost every subfield in the computer science literature, as well as economics and finance. Especially in a world where digital…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Serdar Metin

The fair allocation of indivisible resources is a fundamental problem. Existing research has developed various allocation mechanisms or algorithms to satisfy different fairness notions. For example, round robin (RR) was proposed to meet the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ryota Maruo , Koh Takeuchi , Hisashi Kashima

Cloud computing is a new archetype that provides dynamic computing services to cloud users through the support of datacenters that employs the services of datacenter brokers which discover resources and assign them Virtually. The focus of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-29 J. Kok Konjaang , J. Y. Maipan-uku , Kumangkem Kennedy Kubuga

We consider the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods, among agents, under cardinality constraints and additive valuations. In this setting, we are given a partition of the entire set of goods---i.e., the goods are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Siddharth Barman , Arpita Biswas

Modern computing systems process jobs with resource requirements such as CPU and memory, which are described by multiresource jobs (MRJ) queueing models. In practice, job resource requirements are spread out over so many values, that it is…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Heyuan Yao , Willow Kowalik , Izzy Grosof

This paper addresses a critical societal consideration in the application of Reinforcement Learning (RL): ensuring equitable outcomes across different demographic groups in multi-task settings. While previous work has explored fairness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Kefan Song , Runnan Jiang , Rohan Chandra , Shangtong Zhang

In this paper, we present a novel approach for robust optimal resource allocation with joint carrier aggregation to allocate multiple carriers resources optimally among users with elastic and inelastic traffic in cellular networks. We use…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Haya Shajaiah , Ahmed Abdelhadi , T. Charles Clancy

Access to resources strongly constrains the decisions we make. While we might wish to offer every student a scholarship, or schedule every patient for follow-up meetings with a specialist, limited resources mean that this is not possible.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Sofie Goethals , Eoin Delaney , Brent Mittelstadt , Chris Russell

We study the problem of computing \emph{fair} divisions of a set of indivisible goods among agents with \emph{additive} valuations. For the past many decades, the literature has explored various notions of fairness, that can be primarily…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hannaneh Akrami , Nidhi Rathi

This work poses a distributed multi-resource allocation scheme for minimizing the weighted sum of latency and energy consumption in the on-device distributed federated learning (FL) system. Each mobile device in the system engages the model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Yulan Gao , Ziqiang Ye , Han Yu , Zehui Xiong , Yue Xiao , Dusit Niyato

We consider fair allocations of indivisible goods to agents with general monotone valuations. We observe that it is useful to introduce a new share-based fairness notion, the {\em residual maximin share} (RMMS). This share is {\em feasible}…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Uriel Feige

An increasing number of real-time applications with compute and/or communication deadlines are being supported on shared infrastructure. Such applications can often tolerate occasional deadline violations without substantially impacting…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Yuhuan Du , Gustavo de Veciana

This work addresses fair allocation of indivisible items in settings wherein it is feasible to create copies of resources or dispose of tasks. We establish that exact maximin share (MMS) fairness can be achieved via limited duplication of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Siddharth Barman , Satyanand Rammohan , Aditi Sethia

In this paper, a multi-user multi-server queuing system is studied in which each user is constrained to get service from a subset of servers. In the studied system, rate allocation in the sense of max-min fairness results in multi-level…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Jalal Khamse-Ashari , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yiqiang Zhao

We consider fair resource allocation in sequential decision-making environments modeled as weakly coupled Markov decision processes, where resource constraints couple the action spaces of $N$ sub-Markov decision processes (sub-MDPs) that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Xiaohui Tu , Yossiri Adulyasak , Nima Akbarzadeh , Erick Delage

Several relaxations of envy-freeness, tailored to fair division in settings with indivisible goods, have been introduced within the last decade. Due to the lack of general existence results for most of these concepts, great attention has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Georgios Amanatidis , Apostolos Ntokos , Evangelos Markakis

We introduce and formalize the notion of resource augmentation for maximin share (MMS) fairness for the allocation of indivisible goods. Given an instance with $n$ agents and $m$ goods, we ask how many copies of the goods should be added in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hannaneh Akrami , Siddharth Barman , Alon Eden , Michal Feldman , Amos Fiat , Yoav Gal-Tzur , Satyanand Rammohan , Aditi Sethia

We introduce and study a multi-class online resource allocation problem with group fairness guarantees. The problem involves allocating a fixed amount of resources to a sequence of agents, each belonging to a specific group. The primary…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Faraz Zargari , Hossein Nekouyan Jazi , Bo Sun , Xiaoqi Tan

Online allocation problems with resource constraints are central problems in revenue management and online advertising. In these problems, requests arrive sequentially during a finite horizon and, for each request, a decision maker needs to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Santiago Balseiro , Haihao Lu , Vahab Mirrokni