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Fairness and privacy are two important concerns in social decision-making processes such as resource allocation. We study privacy in the fair allocation of indivisible resources using the well-established framework of differential privacy.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong

We study the fair division of a continuous resource, such as a land-estate or a time-interval, among pre-specified groups of agents, such as families. Each family is given a piece of the resource and this piece is used simultaneously by all…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Erel Segal-Halevi , Shmuel Nitzan

We study fair division of divisible goods under generalized assignment constraints. Here, each good has an agent-specific value and size, and every agent has a budget constraint that limits the total size of the goods she can receive. Since…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Siddharth Barman , Ioannis Caragiannis , Sudarshan Shyam

The allocation of resources among multiple agents is a fundamental problem in both economics and computer science. In these settings, fairness plays a crucial role in ensuring social acceptability and practical implementation of resource…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Hadi Hosseini , Joshua Kavner , Samarth Khanna , Sujoy Sikdar , Lirong Xia

We initiate the study of multi-layered cake cutting with the goal of fairly allocating multiple divisible resources (layers of a cake) among a set of agents. The key requirement is that each agent can only utilize a single resource at each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Hadi Hosseini , Ayumi Igarashi , Andrew Searns

A comparison of four fair division algorithms performed on real data from the spliddit website. The comparison was made on the sum of agent's utilities, and the minimum utility for an agent in an allocation.

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Liad Nagi , Moriya Elgrabli

We consider the classical cake-cutting problem where we wish to fairly divide a heterogeneous resource, often modeled as a cake, among interested agents. Work on the subject typically assumes that the cake is represented by an interval. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Xiaohui Bei , Warut Suksompong

There is a heterogeneous resource that contains both good parts and bad parts, for example, a cake with some parts burnt, a land-estate with some parts heavily taxed, or a chore with some parts fun to do. The resource has to be divided…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Erel Segal-Halevi

We study a fair division problem with indivisible items, namely the computation of maximin share allocations. Given a set of $n$ players, the maximin share of a single player is the best she can guarantee to herself, if she would partition…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Georgios Amanatidis , Georgios Birmpas , Evangelos Markakis

We study an online version of the max-min fair allocation problem for indivisible items. In this problem, items arrive one by one, and each item must be allocated irrevocably on arrival to one of $n$ agents, who have additive valuations for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yasushi Kawase , Hanna Sumita

Cake cutting is a classic fair division problem, with the cake serving as a metaphor for a heterogeneous divisible resource. Recently, it was shown that for any number of players with arbitrary preferences over a cake, it is possible to…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-03-20 Erel Segal-Halevi , Warut Suksompong

The paper considers fair allocation of resources that are already allocated in an unfair way. This setting requires a careful balance between the fairness considerations and the rights of the present owners. The paper presents re-division…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Erel Segal-Halevi

We study the problem of fairly allocating $m$ indivisible items arriving online, among $n$ (offline) agents. Although envy-freeness has emerged as the archetypal fairness notion, envy-free (EF) allocations need not exist with indivisible…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Pooja Kulkarni , Ruta Mehta , Vishnu V. Narayan , Tomasz Ponitka

The paper considers fair allocation of indivisible nondisposable items that generate disutility (chores). We assume that these items are placed in the vertices of a graph and each agent's share has to form a connected subgraph of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Sylvain Bouveret , Katarína Cechlárová , Julien Lesca

Rankings have become the primary interface in two-sided online markets. Many have noted that the rankings not only affect the satisfaction of the users (e.g., customers, listeners, employers, travelers), but that the position in the ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Yuta Saito , Thorsten Joachims

Fairly dividing a set of indivisible resources to a set of agents is of utmost importance in some applications. However, after an allocation has been implemented the preferences of agents might change and envy might arise. We study the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Niclas Boehmer , Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Dušan Knop , Junjie Luo

Fairness is one of the most desirable societal principles in collective decision-making. It has been extensively studied in the past decades for its axiomatic properties and has received substantial attention from the multiagent systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Hadi Hosseini

Many decision processes run for a long and unknown duration: in each round new requests arrive, an irrevocable choice must be made immediately, and the system is judged by ongoing fairness requirements. Examples include food banks…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ido Kahana , Erel Segal-Halevi , Noam Hazon

In this paper, we study the classic problem of fairly allocating indivisible items with the extra feature that the items lie on a line. Our goal is to find a fair allocation that is contiguous, meaning that the bundle of each agent forms a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Warut Suksompong

A collection of objects, some of which are good and some are bad, is to be divided fairly among agents with different tastes, modeled by additive utility functions. If the objects cannot be shared, so that each of them must be entirely…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Fedor Sandomirskiy , Erel Segal-Halevi