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In AAMAS 2014, Bouveret and Lemaitre (2014) presented a hierarchy of fairness concepts for allocation of indivisible objects. Among them CEEI (Competitive Equilibrium with Equal Incomes) was the strongest. In this note, we settle the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Haris Aziz

We study the computational complexity of finding a competitive equilibrium (CE) with chores when agents have linear preferences. CE is one of the most preferred mechanisms for allocating a set of items among agents. CE with equal incomes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Jugal Garg , Peter McGlaughlin , Ruta Mehta

We consider two sided matching markets consisting of agents with non-transferable utilities; agents from the opposite sides form matching pairs (e.g., buyers-sellers) and negotiate the terms of their math which may include a monetary…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-05 Saeed Alaei , Kamal Jain , Azarakhsh Malekian

We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among agents with additive valuation functions to achieve both fairness and efficiency under the constraint that each agent receives exactly the same number of goods (the \emph{balanced…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yasushi Kawase , Ryoga Mahara

Equitability (EQ) in fair division requires that items be allocated such that all agents value the bundle they receive equally. With indivisible items, an equitable allocation may not exist, and hence we instead consider a meaningful…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Siddharth Barman , Umang Bhaskar , Yeshwant Pandit , Soumyajit Pyne

The goal of an auction is to determine commodity prices such that all participants are perfectly happy. Such a solution is called a competitive equilibrium and does not exist in general. For this reason we are interested in solutions which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-04 Johannes C. Müller

We study the problem of fair division when the resources contain both divisible and indivisible goods. Classic fairness notions such as envy-freeness (EF) and envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) cannot be directly applied to the mixed goods…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Xiaohui Bei , Zihao Li , Jinyan Liu , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu

Equitability is a fundamental notion in fair division which requires that all agents derive equal value from their allocated bundles. We study, for general (possibly non-monotone) valuations, a popular relaxation of equitability known as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hadi Hosseini , Vishwa Prakash HV , Aditi Sethia , Jatin Yadav

We propose a pseudo-market solution to resource allocation problems subject to constraints. Our treatment of constraints is general: including bihierarchical constraints due to considerations of diversity in school choice, or scheduling in…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-11-09 Federico Echenique , Antonio Miralles , Jun Zhang

There are several aspects of data markets that distinguish them from a typical commodity market: asymmetric information, the non-rivalrous nature of data, and informational externalities. Formally, this gives rise to a new class of games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Samir Wadhwa , Roy Dong

We study fair allocation of indivisible goods to agents with unequal entitlements. Fair allocation has been the subject of many studies in both divisible and indivisible settings. Our emphasis is on the case where the goods are indivisible…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Alireza Farhadi , Mohammad Ghodsi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Sebastien Lahaie , David Pennock , Masoud Seddighin , Saeed Seddighin , Hadi Yami

We investigate whether fairness is compatible with efficiency in economies with multi-self agents, who may not be able to integrate their multiple objectives into a single complete and transitive ranking. We adapt envy-freeness,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-04-15 Sophie Bade , Erel Segal-Halevi

Ensuring efficiency and envy-freeness in allocating indivisible goods without money often requires randomization. However, existing combinatorial assignment mechanisms (for applications such as course allocation, food banks, and refugee…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-03 Thành Nguyen , Alexander Teytelboym , Shai Vardi

Competitive equilibrium with equal income (CEEI) is considered one of the best mechanisms to allocate a set of items among agents fairly and efficiently. In this paper, we study the computation of CEEI when items are chores that are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Shant Boodaghians , Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Ruta Mehta

We study Fisher markets that admit equilibria wherein each good is integrally assigned to some agent. While strong existence and computational guarantees are known for equilibria of Fisher markets with additive valuations, such equilibria,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Siddharth Barman , Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy

We study equilibrium in hedonic markets, when consumers and suppliers have reservation utilities, and the utility functions are separable with respect to price. There is one indivisible good, which comes in different qualities; each…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-02 Ivar Ekeland

In this paper, we study sequential auctions with two budget constrained bidders and any number of identical items. All prior results on such auctions consider only two items. We construct a canonical outcome of the auction that is the only…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-11 Zhiyi Huang , Nikhil R. Devanur , David Malec

We study the problem of finding an envy-free allocation of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. We focus on the fairness notion of envy-freeness up to any good (EFX). A central open question in fair division is whether…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Vishwa Prakash HV , Pratik Ghosal , Prajakta Nimbhorkar , Nithin Varma

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

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