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We consider the problem of repeatedly allocating multiple shareable public goods that have limited availability in an online setting without the use of money. In our setting, agents have additive values, and the value each agent receives…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Chido Onyeze , David X. Lin , Siddhartha Banerjee , Éva Tardos

Many allocation problems in multiagent systems rely on agents specifying cardinal preferences. However, allocation mechanisms can be sensitive to small perturbations in cardinal preferences, thus causing agents who make ``small" or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Vijay Menon , Kate Larson

The problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible items is a well-known challenge in the field of (computational) social choice. In this scenario, there is a fundamental incompatibility between notions of fairness (such as envy-freeness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Ayumi Igarashi , Martin Lackner , Oliviero Nardi , Arianna Novaro

We consider the problem of fairly allocating a sequence of indivisible items that arrive online in an arbitrary order to a group of n agents with additive normalized valuation functions. We consider both the allocation of goods and chores…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Shengwei Zhou , Rufan Bai , Xiaowei Wu

Sequential allocation is a simple allocation mechanism in which agents are given pre-specified turns and each agents gets the most preferred item that is still available. It has long been known that sequential allocation is not…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Haris Aziz , Sylvain Bouveret , Jerome Lang , Simon Mackenzie

Serial dictatorship is a simple mechanism for coordinating agents in solving combinatorial optimization problems according to their preferences. The most representative such problem is one-sided matching, in which a set of n agents have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ioannis Caragiannis , Kurt Mehlhorn , Nidhi Rathi

We study the problem of assigning objects to agents in the presence of arbitrary linear constraints when agents are allowed to be indifferent between objects. Our main contribution is the generalization of the (Extended) Probabilistic…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-11-03 Priyanka Shende

Online learning in a two-sided matching market, with demand side agents continuously competing to be matched with supply side (arms), abstracts the complex interactions under partial information on matching platforms (e.g. UpWork,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Abishek Sankararaman , Soumya Basu , Karthik Abinav Sankararaman

We study a general allocation setting where agent valuations are concave additive. In this model, a collection of items must be uniquely distributed among a set of agents, where each agent-item pair has a specified utility. The objective is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Nathaniel Kell , Kevin Sun

As AI systems evolve from static tools to dynamic agents, traditional categorical governance frameworks -- based on fixed risk tiers, levels of autonomy, or human oversight models -- are increasingly insufficient on their own. Systems built…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Zeynep Engin , David Hand

We consider the house allocation problems with strict preferences, where monetary transfers are not allowed. We propose two properties in the spirit of justified fairness. Interestingly, together with other well-studied properties…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-07-22 Di Feng , Jacob Coreno

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

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

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 problem of allocating indivisible items on a path among agents. The objective is to find a fair and efficient allocation in which each agent's bundle forms a contiguous block on the line. We say that an instance is \emph{$(a,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yasushi Kawase , Bodhayan Roy , Mohammad Azharuddin Sanpui

In priority-based matching, serial dictatorship (SD) is simple, strategyproof, and Pareto efficient, but not free of justified envy (i.e. fair). This paper studies how to fairly order agents in SD as a function of their priorities. I show…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-09 Adam Hamdan

We consider the assignment problem, where $n$ agents have to be matched to $n$ items. Each agent has a preference order over the items. In the serial dictatorship (SD) mechanism the agents act in a particular order and pick their most…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ioannis Caragiannis , Sebastian Homrighausen

In fair division of indivisible goods, using sequences of sincere choices (or picking sequences) is a natural way to allocate the objects. The idea is the following: at each stage, a designated agent picks one object among those that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Sylvain Bouveret , Michel Lemaître

This paper studies one-sided matching under a complete exchange (CE) requirement, where each agent must be assigned an object different from its initial endowment. We introduce assignment partition -- a partition of agents and choice sets…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-17 Minoru Kitahara , Hiroshi Uno

This paper considers a novel variant of the online fair division problem involving multiple agents in which a learner sequentially observes an indivisible item that has to be irrevocably allocated to one of the agents while satisfying a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Arun Verma , Indrajit Saha , Makoto Yokoo , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low