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We investigate the query complexity of the fair allocation of indivisible goods. For two agents with arbitrary monotonic utilities, we design an algorithm that computes an allocation satisfying envy-freeness up to one good (EF1), a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Hoon Oh , Ariel D. Procaccia , Warut Suksompong

We consider an assignment problem that has aspects of fair division as well as social choice. In particular, we investigate the problem of assigning a small subset from a set of indivisible items to multiple players so that the chosen…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Warut Suksompong

The problem of allocating indivisible resources to agents arises in a wide range of domains, including treatment distribution and social support programs. An important goal in algorithm design for this problem is fairness, where the focus…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Niclas Boehmer , Luca Kreisel

We consider the problem of fairly allocating a combination of divisible and indivisible goods. While fairness criteria like envy-freeness (EF) and proportionality (PROP) can always be achieved for divisible goods, only their relaxed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Bo Li , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Zekai Wu

We study the problem of dynamically allocating $T$ indivisible items to $n$ agents with the restriction that the allocation is fair all the time. Due to the negative results to achieve fairness when allocations are irrevocable, we allow…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Mingwei Yang

We study the problem of fairly and efficiently allocating indivisible goods among agents with additive valuation functions. Envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) is a well-studied fairness notion for indivisible goods, while Pareto optimality…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ryoga Mahara

We consider the problem of allocating $m$ indivisible chores among $n$ agents with possibly different weights, aiming for a solution that is both fair and efficient. Specifically, we focus on the classic fairness notion of proportionality…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jugal Garg , Eklavya Sharma , Xiaowei Wu

Fair division mechanisms for indivisible goods require agent orderings to deterministically select one allocation when running the algorithm in practice. We introduce position envy-freeness up to one good (PEF1) as a fairness criterion for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ryoga Mahara , Ryuhei Mizutani , Taihei Oki , Tomohiko Yokoyama

We study the fair allocation of indivisible items subject to conflict constraints. In this framework, the items are represented as the vertices of a graph, with edges corresponding to conflicts between pairs of items. Each agent is assigned…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sarfaraz Equbal , Rohit Gurjar , Ayumi Igarashi , Yatharth Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Swaprava Nath , Raghuvansh Saxena , Rohit Vaish , Hirotaka Yoneda

We study classic fair-division problems in a partial information setting. This paper respectively addresses fair division of rent, cake, and indivisible goods among agents with cardinal preferences. We will show that, for all of these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Eshwar Ram Arunachaleswaran , Siddharth Barman , Nidhi Rathi

We consider the problem of repeatedly allocating multiple shareable public goods that have limited availability in an online setting without the use of money. In our setting, agents have additive values, and the value each agent receives…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Chido Onyeze , David X. Lin , Siddhartha Banerjee , Éva Tardos

Our work studies the fair allocation of indivisible items to a set of agents, and falls within the scope of establishing improved approximation guarantees. It is well known by now that the classic solution concepts in fair division, such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Evangelos Markakis , Christodoulos Santorinaios

We study the multi-party randomized communication complexity of computing a fair allocation of $m$ indivisible goods to $n < m$ equally entitled agents. We first consider MMS allocations, allocations that give every agent at least her…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Uriel Feige

Proportionality is an attractive fairness concept that has been applied to a range of problems including the facility location problem, a classic problem in social choice. In our work, we propose a concept called Strong Proportionality,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Haris Aziz , Alexander Lam , Mashbat Suzuki , Toby Walsh

Ensuring fairness while limiting costs, such as transportation or storage, is an important challenge in resource allocation, yet most work has focused on cost minimization without fairness or fairness without explicit cost considerations.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Eva Deltl

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

We consider the house allocation problem, where $m$ houses are to be assigned to $n$ agents so that each agent gets exactly one house. We present a polynomial-time algorithm that determines whether an envy-free assignment exists, and if so,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Jiarui Gan , Warut Suksompong , Alexandros A. Voudouris

Fairly dividing a set of indivisible resources to a set of agents is of utmost importance in some applications. However, after an allocation has been implemented the preferences of agents might change and envy might arise. We study the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Niclas Boehmer , Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Dušan Knop , Junjie Luo

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

How does one allocate a collection of resources to a set of strategic agents in a fair and efficient manner without using money? For in many scenarios it is not feasible to use money to compensate agents for otherwise unsatisfactory…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-10 Richard Cole , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Gagan Goel