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We consider a practically motivated variant of the canonical online fair allocation problem: a decision-maker has a budget of perishable resources to allocate over a fixed number of rounds. Each round sees a random number of arrivals, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Siddhartha Banerjee , Chamsi Hssaine , Sean R. Sinclair

We revisit the discrete heterogeneous two-facility location problem, in which there is a set of agents that occupy nodes of a line graph, and have private approval preferences over two facilities. When the facilities are located at some…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Alexandros A. Voudouris , Rongsen Zhang

Access to resources strongly constrains the decisions we make. While we might wish to offer every student a scholarship, or schedule every patient for follow-up meetings with a specialist, limited resources mean that this is not possible.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Sofie Goethals , Eoin Delaney , Brent Mittelstadt , Chris Russell

We consider transferable-utility profit-sharing games that arise from settings in which agents need to jointly choose one of several alternatives, and may use transfers to redistribute the welfare generated by the chosen alternative. One…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2019-09-26 Moshe Babaioff , Uriel Feige

Prediction models have been widely adopted as the basis for decision-making in domains as diverse as employment, education, lending, and health. Yet, few real world problems readily present themselves as precisely formulated prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Jamelle Watson-Daniels , Solon Barocas , Jake M. Hofman , Alexandra Chouldechova

Fairness in algorithmic decision-making is often defined in the predictive space, where predictive performance - used as a proxy for decision-maker (DM) utility - is traded off against prediction-based fairness notions, such as demographic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kavya Gupta , Nektarios Kalampalikis , Christoph Heitz , Isabel Valera

We propose a notion of fairness for allocation problems in which different agents may have different reservation utilities, stemming from different outside options, or property rights. Fairness is usually understood as the absence of envy,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-05-12 Federico Echenique , Antonio Miralles , Jun Zhang

We study the facility location problems where agents are located on a real line and divided into groups based on criteria such as ethnicity or age. Our aim is to design mechanisms to locate a facility to approximately minimize the costs of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Houyu Zhou , Minming Li , Hau Chan

We study a model of competition among nomadic agents for time-varying and location-specific resources, arising in crowd-sourced transportation services, online communities, and traditional location-based economic activity. This model…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Pu Yang , Krishnamurthy Iyer , Peter Frazier

We consider the problem of allocating divisible items among multiple agents, and consider the setting where any agent is allowed to introduce diversity constraints on the items they are allocated. We motivate this via settings where the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Zeyu Shen , Lodewijk Gelauff , Ashish Goel , Aleksandra Korolova , Kamesh Munagala

We study a dynamic allocation problem in which $T$ sequentially arriving divisible resources are to be allocated to a number of agents with linear utilities. The marginal utilities of each resource to the agents are drawn stochastically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Santiago R. Balseiro , Shangzhou Xia

This paper studies the joint user association and resource allocation in heterogeneous networks (HetNets) from a novel perspective, motivated by and generalizing the idea of fractional frequency reuse. By treating the multi-cell multi-user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Quan Kuang , Wolfgang Utschick , Andreas Dotzler

Multi-resource fair allocation has beena hot topic of resource allocation. Most recently, a dynamic dominant resource fairness (DRF) mechanism is proposed for dynamic multi-resource fair allocation. In this paper, we prove that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Weidong Li , Xi Liu , Xiaolu Zhang , Xuejie Zhang

Restless and collapsing bandits are often used to model budget-constrained resource allocation in settings where arms have action-dependent transition probabilities, such as the allocation of health interventions among patients. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Christine Herlihy , Aviva Prins , Aravind Srinivasan , John P. Dickerson

We study private-good allocation under general constraints. Several prominent examples are special cases, including house allocation, roommate matching, social choice, and multiple assignment. Every individually strategy-proof and Pareto…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-04 Joseph Root , David S. Ahn

In this work, we propose an axiomatic approach for measuring the performance/welfare of a system consisting of concurrent agents in a resource-driven system. Our approach provides a unifying view on popular system optimality principles,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-19 Ezra Tampubolon , Holger Boche

We consider house allocation with existing tenants in which each agent has dichotomous preferences. We present strategyproof, polynomial-time, and (strongly) individually rational algorithms that satisfy the maximum number of agents. For…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Haris Aziz

In this paper, we consider an online resource allocation problem where a decision maker accepts or rejects incoming customer requests irrevocably in order to maximize expected reward given limited resources. At each time, a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Guanting Chen , Xiaocheng Li , Yinyu Ye

We consider a setting where goods are allocated to agents by way of an allocation platform (e.g., a matching platform). An ``allocation facilitator'' aims to increase the overall utility/social-good of the allocation by encouraging (some of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yohai Trabelsi , Abhijin Adiga , Yonatan Aumann , Sarit Kraus , S. S. Ravi

We study the multi-resource allocation problem in cloud computing systems where the resource pool is constructed from a large number of heterogeneous servers, representing different points in the configuration space of resources such as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Wei Wang , Baochun Li , Ben Liang