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We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods to multiple agents and focus on the proportionality, which is one of the classical fairness notions. Since proportional allocations do not always exist when goods are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Yusuke Kobayashi , Ryoga Mahara

Allocating resources to individuals in a fair manner has been a topic of interest since the ancient times, with most of the early rigorous mathematical work on the problem focusing on infinitely divisible resources. Recently, there has been…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Georgios Amanatidis , Georgios Birmpas , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Alexandros A. Voudouris

Constrained maximization of submodular functions poses a central problem in combinatorial optimization. In many realistic scenarios, a number of agents need to maximize multiple submodular objectives over the same ground set. We study such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Georgios Amanatidis , Georgios Birmpas , Philip Lazos , Stefano Leonardi , Rebecca Reiffenhäuser

We study fair resource allocation when the resources contain a mixture of divisible and indivisible goods, focusing on the well-studied fairness notion of maximin share fairness (MMS). With only indivisible goods, a full MMS allocation may…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Xiaohui Bei , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu , Hongao Wang

We study envy-free allocations of indivisible goods to agents in settings where each agent is unaware of the goods allocated to other agents. In particular, we propose the maximin aware (MMA) fairness measure, which guarantees that every…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Hau Chan , Jing Chen , Bo Li , Xiaowei Wu

New fairness notions aligned with the merit principle are proposed for designing exchange rules. We show that for an obviously strategy-proof, efficient and individually rational rule, (i) an agent receives her favorite object when others…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-29 Peng Liu , Huaxia Zeng

Fair division of indivisible goods is a central challenge in artificial intelligence. For many prominent fairness criteria including envy-freeness (EF) or proportionality (PROP), no allocations satisfying these criteria might exist. Two…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Martin Hoefer , Marco Schmalhofer , Giovanna Varricchio

Behavioural economists have shown that people are often averse to inequality and will make choices to avoid unequal outcomes. In this paper, we consider how to allocate indivisible goods fairly so as to minimize inequality. We consider how…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Martin Aleksandrov , Cunjing Ge , Toby Walsh

Fairly allocating indivisible goods is a frequently occurring task in everyday life. Given an initial allocation of the goods, we consider the problem of reforming it via a sequence of exchanges to attain fairness in the form of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sheung Man Yuen , Ayumi Igarashi , Naoyuki Kamiyama , Warut Suksompong

Inheritances, divorces or liquidations of companies require common assets to be divided among the entitled parties. Legal methods usually consider the market value of goods, while fair division theory takes into account the parties'…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Marco Dall'Aglio

We study temporal fair division, whereby a set of agents are allocated a (possibly different) set of goods on each day for a period of days. We study this setting, as well as a number of its special cases formed by the restrictions to two…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Benjamin Cookson , Soroush Ebadian , Nisarg Shah

The classical cake cutting problem studies how to find fair allocations of a heterogeneous and divisible resource among multiple agents. Two of the most commonly studied fairness concepts in cake cutting are proportionality and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Xiaohui Bei , Xiaoming Sun , Hao Wu , Jialin Zhang , Zhijie Zhang , Wei Zi

We study the fair allocation of undesirable indivisible items, or chores. While the case of desirable indivisible items (or goods) is extensively studied, with many results known for different notions of fairness, less is known about the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Umang Bhaskar , A. R. Sricharan , Rohit Vaish

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods among agents which are equipped with {\em leveled} valuation functions. Such preferences, that have been studied before in economics and fair division literature, capture a simple…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-17 George Christodoulou , Vasilis Christoforidis

Equitability is a well-studied fairness notion in fair division, where an allocation is equitable if all agents receive equal utility from their allocation. For indivisible items, an exactly equitable allocation may not exist, and a natural…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Umang Bhaskar , Vishwa Prakash HV , Aditi Sethia , Rakshitha

We consider the problem of fairly allocating a combination of divisible and indivisible goods. While fairness criteria like envy-freeness (EF) and proportionality (PROP) can always be achieved for divisible goods, only their relaxed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Bo Li , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Zekai Wu

The division of goods in the online realm poses opportunities and challenges. While innovative mechanisms can be developed, uncertainty about the future may hinder effective solutions. This project aims to explore fair distribution models…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Kushagra Chatterjee , Biswadeep Sen , Yuhao Wang

We study fairness in social choice settings under single-peaked preferences. Construction and characterization of social choice rules in the single-peaked domain has been extensively studied in prior works. In fact, in the single-peaked…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Gogulapati Sreedurga , Soumyarup Sadhukhan , Souvik Roy , Yadati Narahari

The problem of allocating indivisible resources to agents arises in a wide range of domains, including treatment distribution and social support programs. An important goal in algorithm design for this problem is fairness, where the focus…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Niclas Boehmer , Luca Kreisel

We study a resource allocation setting where $m$ discrete items are to be divided among $n$ agents with additive utilities, and the agents' utilities for individual items are drawn at random from a probability distribution. Since common…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong