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One of the major concerns of targeting interventions on individuals in social welfare programs is discrimination: individualized treatments may induce disparities across sensitive attributes such as age, gender, or race. This paper…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-07-01 Davide Viviano , Jelena Bradic

We study the fair division of items to agents supposing that agents can form groups. We thus give natural generalizations of popular concepts such as envy-freeness and Pareto efficiency to groups of fixed sizes. Group envy-freeness requires…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Martin Aleksandrov , Toby Walsh

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 novel stochastic radio resource allocation strategy that achieves long-term fairness considering backhaul and air-interface capacity limitations. The base station is considered to be only powered with a finite battery that is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Javier Rubio , Olga Muñoz , Antonio Pascual-Iserte

We study the fairness of dynamic resource allocation problem under the $\alpha$-fairness criterion. We recognize two different fairness objectives that naturally arise in this problem: the well-understood slot-fairness objective that aims…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-18 T. Si-Salem , G. Iosifidis , G. Neglia

We investigate the problem of random assignment of indivisible goods, in which each agent has an ordinal preference and a constraint. Our goal is to characterize the conditions under which there always exists a random assignment that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yasushi Kawase , Hanna Sumita , Yu Yokoi

Finding an envy-free allocation of indivisible resources to agents is a central task in many multiagent systems. Often, non-trivial envy-free allocations do not exist, and, when they do, finding them can be computationally hard. Classical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Robert Bredereck , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Rolf Niedermeier

Online bipartite matching, where agents are known in advance but items arrive sequentially and must be irrevocably assigned, is fundamental to problems ranging from ride-sharing to online advertising. When agents belong to classes such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Sander Borst , Max Springer

We study fair division of indivisible chores among $n$ agents with additive disutility functions. Two well-studied fairness notions for indivisible items are envy-freeness up to one/any item (EF1/EFX) and the standard notion of economic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Hannaneh Akrami , Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Jugal Garg , Kurt Mehlhorn , Ruta Mehta

We study an online version of the max-min fair allocation problem for indivisible items. In this problem, items arrive one by one, and each item must be allocated irrevocably on arrival to one of $n$ agents, who have additive valuations for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yasushi Kawase , Hanna Sumita

A simple mechanism for allocating indivisible resources is sequential allocation in which agents take turns to pick items. We focus on possible and necessary allocation problems, checking whether allocations of a given form occur in some or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Haris Aziz , Toby Walsh , Lirong Xia

We consider allocation of a resource to multiple interested users with a constraint that if the resource is allocated to user $i$ then it can not be allocated simultaneously to a predefined set of users $\cS_i$ . This scenario arises in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Indu Yadav , Prasanna Chaporkar , Abhay Karandikar

A major open question in fair allocation of indivisible items is whether there always exists an allocation of chores that is Pareto optimal (PO) and envy-free up to one item (EF1). We answer this question affirmatively for the natural class…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Soroush Ebadian , Dominik Peters , Nisarg Shah

We design a mechanism for Fair and Efficient Distribution of Resources (FEDoR) in the presence of strategic agents. We consider a multiple-instances, Bayesian setting, where in each round the preference of an agent over the set of resources…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Evgenia Christoforou , Antonio Fernández Anta , Agustín Santos

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

We consider social resource allocations that deliver an array of scarce supports to a diverse population. Such allocations pervade social service delivery, such as provision of homeless services, assignment of refugees to cities, among…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Tasfia Mashiat , Xavier Gitiaux , Huzefa Rangwala , Patrick J. Fowler , Sanmay Das

Fair allocation of indivisible goods is a fundamental problem at the interface of economics and computer science. Traditional approaches focus either on randomized allocations that are fair in expectation or deterministic allocations that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Telikepalli Kavitha , Surya Panchapakesan , Rohit Vaish , Vignesh Viswanathan , Jatin Yadav

We study resource allocation in two-sided markets from a fundamental perspective and introduce a general modeling and algorithmic framework to effectively incorporate the complex and multidimensional aspects of fairness. Our main technical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Javier Cembrano , Andrés Moraga , Victor Verdugo

We present pricing mechanisms for several online resource allocation problems which obtain tight or nearly tight approximations to social welfare. In our settings, buyers arrive online and purchase bundles of items; buyers' values for the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Shuchi Chawla , J. Benjamin Miller , Yifeng Teng

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods between groups of agents using the recently introduced relaxations of envy-freeness. We consider the existence of fair allocations under different assumptions on the valuations of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Maria Kyropoulou , Warut Suksompong , Alexandros A. Voudouris