English
Related papers

Related papers: Cake cutting: Explicit examples for impossibility …

200 papers

The problem of fair division known as "cake cutting" has been the focus of multiple papers spanning several decades. The most prominent problem in this line of work has been to bound the query complexity of computing an envy-free outcome in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Ioannis Caragiannis , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Alexandros Psomas , Daniel Schoepflin

We consider the classic cake cutting problem in the Robertson-Webb model, with the objective of proportional fairness. We show that any randomized algorithm must use $\Omega(n \log n)$ queries.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Stephen Arndt , Kirk Pruhs , Trung Tran

In this article we study a cake cutting problem. More precisely, we study symmetric fair division algorithms, that is to say we study algorithms where the order of the players do not influence the value obtained by each player. In the first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Guillaume Chèze

We study classic cake-cutting problems, but in discrete models rather than using infinite-precision real values, specifically, focusing on their communication complexity. Using general discrete simulations of classical infinite-precision…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Simina Brânzei , Noam Nisan

We study the query complexity of cake cutting and give lower and upper bounds for computing approximately envy-free, perfect, and equitable allocations with the minimum number of cuts. The lower bounds are tight for computing connected…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Simina Brânzei , Noam Nisan

We study the classic cake cutting problem from a mechanism design perspective, in particular focusing on deterministic mechanisms that are strategyproof and fair. We begin by looking at mechanisms that are non-wasteful and primarily show…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Vijay Menon , Kate Larson

We propose an online form of the cake cutting problem. This models situations where agents arrive and depart during the process of dividing a resource. We show that well known fair division procedures like cut-and-choose and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-18 Toby Walsh

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

We study the problem of fairly allocating a divisible resource, also known as cake cutting, with an additional requirement that the shares that different agents receive should be sufficiently separated from one another. This captures, for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Edith Elkind , Erel Segal-Halevi , Warut Suksompong

We propose an online form of the cake cutting problem. This models situations where players arrive and depart during the process of dividing a resource. We show that well known fair division procedures like cut-and-choose and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-06 Toby Walsh

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

In the classical cake cutting problem, a resource must be divided among agents with different utilities so that each agent believes they have received a fair share of the resource relative to the other agents. We introduce a variant of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Rediet Abebe , Jon Kleinberg , David Parkes

The classic cake-cutting problem provides a model for addressing fair and efficient allocation of a divisible, heterogeneous resource (metaphorically, the cake) among agents with distinct preferences. Focusing on a standard formulation of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Eshwar Ram Arunachaleswaran , Siddharth Barman , Rachitesh Kumar , Nidhi Rathi

Cake cutting is a classic model for studying fair division of a heterogeneous, divisible resource among agents with individual preferences. Addressing cake division under a typical requirement that each agent must receive a connected piece…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Siddharth Barman , Pooja Kulkarni

We study the fair allocation of a cake, which serves as a metaphor for a divisible resource, under the requirement that each agent should receive a contiguous piece of the cake. While it is known that no finite envy-free algorithm exists in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Paul W. Goldberg , Alexandros Hollender , Warut Suksompong

We consider multi-layered cake cutting in order to fairly allocate numerous divisible resources (layers of cake) among a group of agents under two constraints: contiguity and feasibility. We first introduce a new computational model in a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Mohammad Azharuddin Sanpui

We consider a setting in which a single divisible good ("cake") needs to be divided between n players, each with a possibly different valuation function over pieces of the cake. For this setting, we address the problem of finding divisions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Yonatan Aumann , Yair Dombb , Avinatan Hassidim

We study the recently introduced cake-cutting setting in which the cake is represented by an undirected graph. This generalizes the canonical interval cake and allows for modeling the division of road networks. We show that when the graph…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Edith Elkind , Erel Segal-Halevi , Warut Suksompong

We consider the classic cake-cutting problem of producing fair allocations for $n$ agents, in the Robertson-Webb query model. In this model, it is known that: (i) proportional allocations can be computed using $O(n \log n)$ queries, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Arnav Mehra , Alexandros Psomas

We study the disproportionate version of the classical cake-cutting problem: how efficiently can we divide a cake, here $[0,1]$, among $n$ agents with different demands $\alpha_1, \alpha_2, \dots, \alpha_n$ summing to $1$? When all the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Logan Crew , Bhargav Narayanan , Sophie Spirkl
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›