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Allocating items in a fair and economically efficient manner is a central problem in fair division. We study this problem for agents with additive preferences, when items are all goods or all chores, divisible or indivisible. The celebrated…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Owen Eckart , Alexandros Psomas , Paritosh Verma

We analyze the run-time complexity of computing allocations that are both fair and maximize the utilitarian social welfare, defined as the sum of agents' utilities. We focus on two tractable fairness concepts: envy-freeness up to one item…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Haris Aziz , Xin Huang , Nicholas Mattei , Erel Segal-Halevi

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

The fair allocation of mixed goods, consisting of both divisible and indivisible goods, has been a prominent topic of study in economics and computer science. We define an allocation as fair if its utility vector minimizes a symmetric…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yasushi Kawase , Koichi Nishimura , Hanna Sumita

Several different fairness notions have been introduced in the context of fair allocation of goods. In this manuscript, we compare between some fairness notions that are used in settings in which agents have arbitrary (perhaps unequal)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Uriel Feige

We study the fair allocation problem of indivisible items with subsidy. In this paper, we focus on the notion of fairness - equitability (EQ), which requires that items be allocated such that all agents value the bundle they receive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yuanyuan Wang , Tianze Wei

We study fair division of indivisible goods in a single-parameter environment. In particular, we develop truthful social welfare maximizing mechanisms for fairly allocating indivisible goods. Our fairness guarantees are in terms of solution…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Siddharth Barman , Ganesh Ghalme , Shweta Jain , Pooja Kulkarni , Shivika Narang

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

Picking sequences are well-established methods for allocating indivisible goods. Among the various picking sequences, recursively balanced picking sequences -- whereby each agent picks one good in every round -- are notable for guaranteeing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Karen Frilya Celine , Warut Suksompong , Sheung Man Yuen

A set of objects is to be divided fairly among agents with different tastes, modeled by additive utility-functions. If we consider the objects as indivisible, many instances of the decision problem: ``Is there a fair division of the objects…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Samuel Bismuth , Ivan Bliznets , Erel Segal-Halevi

We study the question of dividing a collection of indivisible goods amongst a set of agents. The main objective of research in the area is to achieve one of two goals: fairness or efficiency. On the fairness side, envy-freeness is the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Vishnu V. Narayan , Mashbat Suzuki , Adrian Vetta

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

In frequently repeated matching scenarios, individuals may require diversification in their choices. Therefore, when faced with a set of potential outcomes, each individual may have an ideal lottery over outcomes that represents their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Rasoul Ramezanian

Divisor methods are well known to satisfy house monotonicity, which allows representative seats to be allocated sequentially. We focus on stationary divisor methods defined by a rounding cutpoint $c \in [0,1]$. For such methods with…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Michael A. Jones , Brittany Ohlinger , Jennifer Wilson

Sequential allocation is a simple and widely studied mechanism to allocate indivisible items in turns to agents according to a pre-specified picking sequence of agents. At each turn, the current agent in the picking sequence picks its most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Mingyu Xiao , Jiaxing Ling

We study the fair division problem of allocating multiple resources among a set of agents with Leontief preferences that are each required to complete a finite amount of work, which we term "limited demands". We examine the behavior of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Sushirdeep Narayana , Ian A. Kash

We consider the following control problem on fair allocation of indivisible goods. Given a set $I$ of items and a set of agents, each having strict linear preference over the items, we ask for a minimum subset of the items whose deletion…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Britta Dorn , Ronald de Haan , Ildikó Schlotter

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible goods to multiple agents. Recent work [Bouveret and Lang, 2011] focused on allocating goods in a sequential way, and studied what is the "best" sequence of agents to pick objects based…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Wei Huang , Jian Lou , Zhonghua Wen

We study the problem of allocating divisible resources among $n$ agents, hopefully in a fair and efficient manner. With the presence of strategic agents, additional incentive guarantees are also necessary, and the problem of designing fair…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Xiaohui Bei , Biaoshuai Tao , Jiajun Wu , Mingwei Yang

We study the classic problem of dividing a collection of indivisible resources in a fair and efficient manner among a set of agents having varied preferences. Pareto optimality is a standard notion of economic efficiency, which states that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Ioannis Caragiannis , Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen , Nidhi Rathi