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In fair division, equitability dictates that each participant receives the same level of utility. In this work, we study equitable allocations of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. While prior work has studied…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Rupert Freeman , Sujoy Sikdar , Rohit Vaish , Lirong Xia

We study fair division of divisible goods under generalized assignment constraints. Here, each good has an agent-specific value and size, and every agent has a budget constraint that limits the total size of the goods she can receive. Since…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Siddharth Barman , Ioannis Caragiannis , Sudarshan Shyam

We consider a setting where we have a ground set $M$ together with real-valued set functions $f_1, \dots, f_n$, and the goal is to partition $M$ into two sets $S_1,S_2$ such that $|f_i(S_1) - f_i(S_2)|$ is small for every $i$. Many results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Alexandros Hollender , Pasin Manurangsi , Raghu Meka , Warut Suksompong

We introduce and formalize the notion of resource augmentation for maximin share (MMS) fairness for the allocation of indivisible goods. Given an instance with $n$ agents and $m$ goods, we ask how many copies of the goods should be added in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hannaneh Akrami , Siddharth Barman , Alon Eden , Michal Feldman , Amos Fiat , Yoav Gal-Tzur , Satyanand Rammohan , Aditi Sethia

We study the fair division of indivisible goods with conflicts between pairs of goods, represented by a graph $G = (V, E)$. We consider ``soft'' conflicts: assigning two adjacent goods to the same agent is allowed, but we seek allocations…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Hirotaka Yoneda , Masataka Yoneda

We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. The fair division literature has traditionally focused on two broad classes of fairness notions: envy-based notions and share-based notions. Within the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Hannaneh Akrami , Timo Reichert

We investigate fairness in the allocation of indivisible items among groups of agents using the notion of maximin share (MMS). While previous work has shown that no nontrivial multiplicative MMS approximation can be guaranteed in this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong

Several relaxations of envy-freeness, tailored to fair division in settings with indivisible goods, have been introduced within the last decade. Due to the lack of general existence results for most of these concepts, great attention has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Georgios Amanatidis , Apostolos Ntokos , Evangelos Markakis

We consider the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods, among agents, under cardinality constraints and additive valuations. In this setting, we are given a partition of the entire set of goods---i.e., the goods are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Siddharth Barman , Arpita Biswas

Fair division is the problem of dividing one or several goods amongst two or more agents in a way that satisfies a suitable fairness criterion. These Notes provide a succinct introduction to the field. We cover three main topics. First, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Ulle Endriss

In fair division problems with indivisible goods it is well known that one cannot have any guarantees for the classic fairness notions of envy-freeness and proportionality. As a result, several relaxations have been introduced, most of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Georgios Amanatidis , Georgios Birmpas , Evangelos Markakis

We consider the discrete assignment problem in which agents express ordinal preferences over objects and these objects are allocated to the agents in a fair manner. We use the stochastic dominance relation between fractional or randomized…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Haris Aziz , Serge Gaspers , Simon Mackenzie , Toby Walsh

We consider the problem of allocating indivisible goods fairly among n agents who have additive and submodular valuations for the goods. Our fairness guarantees are in terms of the maximin share, that is defined to be the maximum value that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Siddharth Barman , Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy

We consider the problem of fair allocation of indivisible goods to $n$ agents, with no transfers. When agents have equal entitlements, the well established notion of the maximin share (MMS) serves as an attractive fairness criterion, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Moshe Babaioff , Tomer Ezra , Uriel Feige

The paper considers fair allocation of resources that are already allocated in an unfair way. This setting requires a careful balance between the fairness considerations and the rights of the present owners. The paper presents re-division…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Erel Segal-Halevi

To divide a "manna" {\Omega} of private items (commodities, workloads, land, time intervals) between n agents, the worst case measure of fairness is the welfare guaranteed to each agent, irrespective of others' preferences. If the manna is…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-09-17 Anna bogomolnaia , Herve Moulin

Inheritances, divorces or liquidations of companies require common assets to be divided among the entitled parties. Legal methods usually consider the market value of goods, while fair division theory takes into account the parties'…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Marco Dall'Aglio

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods when limited sharing is allowed, that is, each good may be allocated to up to $k$ agents, while incurring a cost for sharing. While classic maximin share (MMS) allocations may not…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hana Salavcova , Martin Černý , Arpita Biswas

A collection of objects, some of which are good and some are bad, is to be divided fairly among agents with different tastes, modeled by additive utility functions. If the objects cannot be shared, so that each of them must be entirely…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Fedor Sandomirskiy , Erel Segal-Halevi

We study the problem of fair division of a set of indivisible goods with connectivity constraints. Specifically, we assume that the goods are represented as vertices of a connected graph, and sets of goods allocated to the agents are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Václav Blažej , Michał Dębski , Zbigniew Lonc , Marta Piecyk , Paweł Rzążewski