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House allocation refers to the problem where $m$ houses are to be allocated to $n$ agents so that each agent receives one house. Since an envy-free house allocation does not always exist, we consider finding such an allocation in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Davin Choo , Yan Hao Ling , Warut Suksompong , Nicholas Teh , Jian Zhang

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

House Allocations concern with matchings involving one-sided preferences, where houses serve as a proxy encoding valuable indivisible resources (e.g. organs, course seats, subsidized public housing units) to be allocated among the agents.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hadi Hosseini , Sanjukta Roy , Aditi Sethia

We study almost-envy-freeness in house allocation, where $m$ houses are to be allocated among $n$ agents so that every agent receives exactly one house. An envy-free allocation need not exist, and therefore we may have to settle for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jayakrishnan Madathil , Neeldhara Misra , Aditi Sethia

The classic house allocation problem involves assigning $m$ houses to $n$ agents based on their utility functions, ensuring each agent receives exactly one house. A key criterion in these problems is satisfying fairness constraints such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Sijia Dai , Yankai Chen , Xiaowei Wu , Yicheng Xu , Yong Zhang

The classic house allocation problem is primarily concerned with finding a matching between a set of agents and a set of houses that guarantees some notion of economic efficiency (e.g. utilitarian welfare). While recent works have shifted…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Hadi Hosseini , Medha Kumar , Sanjukta Roy

Fair division has emerged as a very hot topic in multiagent systems, and envy-freeness is among the most compelling fairness concepts. An allocation of indivisible items to agents is envy-free if no agent prefers the bundle of any other…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Ioannis Caragiannis , Stavros Ioannidis

We study the envy-free house allocation problem when agents have uncertain preferences over items and consider several well-studied preference uncertainty models. The central problem that we focus on is computing an allocation that has the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Haris Aziz , Isaiah Iliffe , Bo Li , Angus Ritossa , Ankang Sun , Mashbat Suzuki

The classical house allocation problem involves assigning $n$ houses (or items) to $n$ agents according to their preferences. A key criterion in such problems is satisfying some fairness constraints such as envy-freeness. We consider a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Hadi Hosseini , Justin Payan , Rik Sengupta , Rohit Vaish , Vignesh Viswanathan

We study the house allocation problem in a setting where agents are connected by a graph representing friendships. In this model, two agents can only envy each other if they are neighbors (i.e., friends) in the graph. Each agent has a set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Anubhav Dhar , Ashlesha Hota , Palash Dey , Sudeshna Kolay

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

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

Fair division of indivisible goods is a very well-studied problem. The goal of this problem is to distribute $m$ goods to $n$ agents in a "fair" manner, where every agent has a valuation for each subset of goods. We assume general…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Tellikepalli Kavitha , Kurt Mehlhorn , Alkmini Sgouritsa

We study the computational complexity of fairly allocating a set of indivisible items under externalities. In this recently-proposed setting, in addition to the utility the agent gets from their bundle, they also receive utility from items…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Viktoriia Korchemna , Šimon Schierreich

We consider the problem of fairly dividing a set of heterogeneous divisible resources among agents with different preferences. We focus on the setting where the resources correspond to the edges of a connected graph, every agent must be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm , Sebastian Ordyniak

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 study the fair allocation of indivisible resources among agents. Most prior work focuses on fairness and/or efficiency among agents. However, the allocator, as the resource owner, may also be involved in many scenarios (e.g., government…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

We study the computational complexity of finding fair allocations of indivisible goods in the setting where a social network on the agents is given. Notions of fairness in this context are "localized", that is, agents are only concerned…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Neeldhara Misra , Debanuj Nayak

When dividing items among agents, two of the most widely studied fairness notions are envy-freeness and proportionality. We consider a setting where $m$ chores are allocated to $n$ agents and the disutility of each chore for each agent is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong

Envy-Freeness is one of the most fundamental and important concepts in fair allocation. Some recent studies have focused on the concept of weighted envy-freeness. Under this concept, each agent is assigned a weight, and their valuations are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yuxi Liu , Mingyu Xiao
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