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In this paper, we study some multiagent variants of the knapsack problem. Fluschnik et al. [AAAI 2019] considered the model in which every agent assigns some utility to every item. They studied three preference aggregation rules for finding…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Sushmita Gupta , Pallavi Jain , Sanjay Seetharaman

The study of fair algorithms has become mainstream in machine learning and artificial intelligence due to its increasing demand in dealing with biases and discrimination. Along this line, researchers have considered fair versions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Fedor V. Fomin , Tanmay Inamdar , Kirill Simonov

We study the fair allocation of indivisible items under relevance constraints, where each agent has a set of relevant items and can only receive items that are relevant to them. While the relevance constraint has been studied in recent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Ankang Sun , Ruijie Wang , Bo Li

A variant of the classical knapsack problem is considered in which each item is associated with an integer weight and a qualitative level. We define a dominance relation over the feasible subsets of the given item set and show that this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Luca E. Schäfer , Tobias Dietz , Maria Barbati , José Rui Figueira , Salvatore Greco , Stefan Ruzika

We analyze the competitive ratio and the advice complexity of the online unbounded knapsack problem. An instance is given as a sequence of n items with a size and a value each, and an algorithm has to decide how often to pack each item into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer , Matthias Gehnen , Juraj Hromkovič , Ralf Klasing , Dennis Komm , Henri Lotze , Daniel Mock , Peter Rossmanith , Moritz Stocker

In the online simple knapsack problem items are presented in an iterative fashion and an algorithm has to decide for each item whether to reject or permanently include it into the knapsack without any knowledge about the rest of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Hans-Joachim Boeckenhauer , Elisabet Burjons , Fabian Frei , Juraj Hromkovic , Henri Lotze , Peter Rossmanith

In this paper, we study the stochastic unbounded min-knapsack problem ($\textbf{Min-SUKP}$). The ordinary unbounded min-knapsack problem states that: There are $n$ types of items, and there is an infinite number of items of each type. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Zhihao Jiang , Haoyu Zhao

The online knapsack problem is a classic online resource allocation problem in networking and operations research. Its basic version studies how to pack online arriving items of different sizes and values into a capacity-limited knapsack.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Bo Sun , Lin Yang , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley , Danny H. K. Tsang

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to groups of agents. Agents in the same group share the same set of goods even though they may have different preferences. Previous work has focused on unanimous fairness, in which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Erel Segal-Halevi , Warut Suksompong

We consider an issue of much current concern: could fairness, an issue that is already difficult to guarantee, worsen when algorithms run much of our lives? We consider this in the context of resource-allocation problems, we show that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-26 David G. Harris , Thomas Pensyl , Aravind Srinivasan , Khoa Trinh

Search and recommendation systems, such as search engines, recruiting tools, online marketplaces, news, and social media, output ranked lists of content, products, and sometimes, people. Credit ratings, standardized tests, risk assessments…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Sruthi Gorantla , Amit Deshpande , Anand Louis

In this work, we define and solve the Fair Top-k Ranking problem, in which we want to determine a subset of k candidates from a large pool of n >> k candidates, maximizing utility (i.e., select the "best" candidates) subject to group…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Meike Zehlike , Francesco Bonchi , Carlos Castillo , Sara Hajian , Mohamed Megahed , Ricardo Baeza-Yates

The unbounded knapsack problem with bounded weights is a variant of the well-studied variant of the traditional binary knapsack problem; key changes being the relaxation of the binary constraint and allowing the unit weights of each item to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Michael Beyer , Steven Mills

We consider a selfish variant of the knapsack problem. In our version, the items are owned by agents, and each agent can misrepresent the set of items she owns---either by avoiding reporting some of them (understating), or by reporting…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Itai Feigenbaum , Matthew P. Johnson

We introduce and study a multi-class online resource allocation problem with group fairness guarantees. The problem involves allocating a fixed amount of resources to a sequence of agents, each belonging to a specific group. The primary…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Faraz Zargari , Hossein Nekouyan Jazi , Bo Sun , Xiaoqi Tan

We consider the problem of fairly and efficiently allocating indivisible items (goods or bads) under capacity constraints. In this setting, we are given a set of categorized items. Each category has a capacity constraint (the same for all…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Hila Shoshan , Erel Segal-Halevi , Noam Hazon

Fair top-$k$ selection, which ensures appropriate proportional representation of members from minority or historically disadvantaged groups among the top-$k$ selected candidates, has drawn significant attention. We study the problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Guangya Cai

Algorithmic decision making systems are ubiquitous across a wide variety of online as well as offline services. These systems rely on complex learning methods and vast amounts of data to optimize the service functionality, satisfaction of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-27 Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Isabel Valera , Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Krishna P. Gummadi

We introduce the Online Unbounded Knapsack Problem with Removal, a variation of the well-known Online Knapsack Problem. Items, each with a weight and value, arrive online and an algorithm must decide on whether or not to pack them into a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Matthias Gehnen , Moritz Stocker

Knapsack problems are among the most fundamental problems in optimization. In the Multiple Knapsack problem, we are given multiple knapsacks with different capacities and items with values and sizes. The task is to find a subset of items of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Franziska Eberle , Nicole Megow , Lukas Nölke , Bertrand Simon , Andreas Wiese