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We introduce the concept of continuous transportation task to the context of multi-agent systems. A continuous transportation task is one in which a multi-agent team visits a number of fixed locations, picks up objects, and delivers them to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Chao Wang , Somchaya Liemhetcharat , Kian Hsiang Low

We consider a multi-agent resource allocation setting that models the assignment of papers to reviewers. A recurring issue in allocation problems is the compatibility of welfare/efficiency and fairness. Given an oracle to find a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Haris Aziz , Xin Huang , Nicholas Mattei , Erel Segal-Halevi

We consider the problem of assigning or allocating resources to a set of jobs. We consider the case when the resources are fungible, that is, the job can be done with any mix of the resources, but with different efficiencies. In our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Akshay Agrawal , Stephen Boyd , Deepak Narayanan , Fiodar Kazhamiaka , Matei Zaharia

We study fair allocation of indivisible chores to agents under budget constraints, where each chore has an objective size and disutility. This model captures scenarios where a set of chores need to be divided among agents with limited time,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Edith Elkind , Ayumi Igarashi , Nicholas Teh

We study a participatory budgeting problem of aggregating the preferences of agents and dividing a budget over the projects. A budget division solution is a probability distribution over the projects. The main purpose of our study concerns…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Zhongzheng Tang , Chenhao Wang , Mengqi Zhang

In this paper, we study the problem of fair worker selection in Federated Learning systems, where fairness serves as an incentive mechanism that encourages more workers to participate in the federation. Considering the achieved training…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Fengjiao Li , Jia Liu , Bo Ji

We study the fair allocation of indivisible items subject to conflict constraints. In this framework, the items are represented as the vertices of a graph, with edges corresponding to conflicts between pairs of items. Each agent is assigned…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sarfaraz Equbal , Rohit Gurjar , Ayumi Igarashi , Yatharth Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Swaprava Nath , Raghuvansh Saxena , Rohit Vaish , Hirotaka Yoneda

We study fair allocation of indivisible chores (i.e., items with non-positive value) among agents with additive valuations. An allocation is deemed fair if it is (approximately) equitable, which means that the disutilities of the agents are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Rupert Freeman , Sujoy Sikdar , Rohit Vaish , Lirong Xia

In the growing field of Shared Micromobility Systems, which holds great potential for shaping urban transportation, fairness-oriented approaches remain largely unexplored. This work addresses such a gap by investigating the balance between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Matteo Cederle , Marco Fabris , Gian Antonio Susto

We consider the problem of fair allocation of indivisible goods to agents with submodular valuation functions, where agents may have either equal entitlements or arbitrary (possibly unequal) entitlements. We focus on share-based fairness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Gilad Ben Uziahu , Uriel Feige

With rapid population growth and urban development, traffic congestion has become an inescapable issue, especially in large cities. Many congestion reduction strategies have been proposed in the past, ranging from roadway extension to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Ali Ghafelebashi , Meisam Razaviyayn , Maged Dessouky

Algorithmic fairness has become a central concern in modern machine learning and AI applications. However, two pressing challenges remain: (1) The fairness guarantees of existing methods often rely on specific data distributional…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-14 Xiaotian Hou , Linjun Zhang

In human-robot teams where agents collaborate together, there needs to be a clear allocation of tasks to agents. Task allocation can aid in achieving the presumed benefits of human-robot teams, such as improved team performance. Many task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Arsha Ali , Dawn M. Tilbury , Lionel P. Robert

We consider the problem of planning a collision-free path of a robot in the presence of risk zones. The robot is allowed to travel in these zones but is penalized in a super-linear fashion for consecutive accumulative time spent there. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Oren Salzman , Siddhartha Srinivasa

We present a solution to the problem of fairly planning a fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that have different missions and operators, such that no one operator unfairly gets to finish its missions early at the expense of others -…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-24 Connor Kurtz , Houssam Abbas

In this paper, we consider the problem of how to fairly dividing $m$ indivisible chores among $n$ agents. The fairness measure we considered here is the maximin share. The previous best known result is that there always exists a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Xin Huang , Pinyan Lu

We consider a multi-stage facility reallocation problems on the real line, where a facility is being moved between time stages based on the locations reported by $n$ agents. The aim of the reallocation algorithm is to minimise the social…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Bart de Keijzer , Dominik Wojtczak

We introduce and study the problem of designing optimal contracts under fairness constraints on the task assignments and compensations. We adopt the notion of envy-free (EF) and its relaxations, $\epsilon$-EF and envy-free up to one item…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Matteo Castiglioni , Junjie Chen , Yingkai Li

Most of the existing algorithms for fair division do not consider externalities. Under externalities, the utility an agent obtains depends not only on its allocation but also on the allocation of other agents. An agent has a positive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Shaily Mishra , Manisha Padala , Sujit Gujar

Fair allocation of indivisible goods studies allocating $m$ goods among $n$ agents in a fair manner. While fairness is a fundamental requirement in many real-world applications, it often conflicts with (economic) efficiency. This raises a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao