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Oversubscribed treatments are often allocated using randomized waiting lists. Applicants are ranked randomly, and treatment offers are made following that ranking until all seats are filled. To estimate causal effects, researchers often…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-24 Clement de Chaisemartin , Luc Behaghel

Reallocating resources to get mutually beneficial outcomes is a fundamental problem in various multi-agent settings. While finding an arbitrary Pareto optimal allocation is generally easy, checking whether a particular allocation is Pareto…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Haris Aziz , Peter Biro , Jerome Lang , Julien Lesca , Jerome Monnot

Resource allocation is the problem that a process may enter a critical section CS of its code only when its resource requirements are not in conflict with those of other processes in their critical sections. For each execution of CS, these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-01 Wim H. Hesselink

The strains associated with shift work decrease healthcare workers' well-being. However, shift schedules adapted to their individual needs can partially mitigate these problems. From a computing perspective, shift scheduling was so far…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Alarith Uhde , Nadine Schlicker , Dieter P. Wallach , Marc Hassenzahl

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

In standard fair division models, we assume that all agents are selfish. However, in many scenarios, division of resources has a direct impact on the whole group or even society. Therefore, we study fair allocations of indivisible items…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Argyris Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Tiger-Lily Goldsmith , Dušan Knop , Šimon Schierreich

In this work, we revisit the problem of fairly allocating a number of indivisible items that are located on a line to multiple agents. A feasible allocation requires that the allocated items to each agent are connected on the line. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ankang Sun , Bo Li

With the universal adoption of machine learning in healthcare, the potential for the automation of societal biases to further exacerbate health disparities poses a significant risk. We explore algorithmic fairness from the perspective of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Md Rahat Shahriar Zawad , Peter Washington

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

Inspired by the recent COVID-19 pandemic, we study a generalization of the multi-resource allocation problem with heterogeneous demands and Leontief utilities. Unlike existing settings, we allow each agent to specify requirements to only…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-08-16 Steven Yin , Shatian Wang , Lingyi Zhang , Christian Kroer

Fair allocation has been studied intensively in both economics and computer science, and fair sharing of resources has aroused renewed interest with the advent of virtualization and cloud computing. Prior work has typically focused on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-15 Danny Dolev , Dror G. Feitelson , Joseph Y. Halpern , Raz Kupferman , Nati Linial

The digitization of healthcare data coupled with advances in computational capabilities has propelled the adoption of machine learning (ML) in healthcare. However, these methods can perpetuate or even exacerbate existing disparities,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Qizhang Feng , Mengnan Du , Na Zou , Xia Hu

Envy-freeness is one of the most prominent fairness concepts in the allocation of indivisible goods. Even though trivial envy-free allocations always exist, rich literature shows this is not true when one additionally requires some…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Robert Bredereck , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Junjie Luo , Bin Sun

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

In this paper, we study the classic problem of fairly allocating indivisible items with the extra feature that the items lie on a line. Our goal is to find a fair allocation that is contiguous, meaning that the bundle of each agent forms a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Warut Suksompong

The Rashomon set of equally-good models promises less discriminatory algorithms, reduced outcome homogenization, and fairer decisions through model ensembles or reconciliation. However, we argue from the perspective of allocation…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shomik Jain , Margaret Wang , Kathleen Creel , Ashia Wilson

In this paper, we study a queueing model that incorporates patient reentrance to reflect patients' recurring requests for nurse care and their rest periods between these requests. Within this framework, we address two levels of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Wei Liu , Mengshi Lu , Pengyi Shi

Nowadays, several crowdsourcing projects exploit social choice methods for computing an aggregate ranking of alternatives given individual rankings provided by workers. Motivated by such systems, we consider a setting where each worker is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Ioannis Caragiannis , Xenophon Chatzigeorgiou , George A. Krimpas , Alexandros A. Voudouris

Fair division has long been an important problem in the economics literature. In this note, we consider the existence of proportionally fair allocations of indivisible goods, i.e., allocations of indivisible goods in which every agent gets…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Warut Suksompong

Rankings of people and items has been highly used in selection-making, match-making, and recommendation algorithms that have been deployed on ranging of platforms from employment websites to searching tools. The ranking position of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Akrati Saxena , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy