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We study the problem of fairly allocating a divisible resource, also known as cake cutting, with an additional requirement that the shares that different agents receive should be sufficiently separated from one another. This captures, for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Edith Elkind , Erel Segal-Halevi , Warut Suksompong

A set of divisible resources becomes available over a sequence of rounds and needs to be allocated immediately and irrevocably. Our goal is to distribute these resources to maximize fairness and efficiency. Achieving any non-trivial…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Vasilis Gkatzelis , Alexandros Psomas , Xizhi Tan

We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods among agents with identical, additive valuations but individual budget constraints. Here, the indivisible goods--each with a specific size and value--need to be allocated such that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Siddharth Barman , Arindam Khan , Sudarshan Shyam , K. V. N. Sreenivas

In recent years many important societal decisions are made by machine-learning algorithms, and many such important decisions have strict capacity limits, allowing resources to be allocated only to the highest utility individuals. For…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Eitan Bachmat , Inbal Livni Navon

This paper studies the problem of congestion control and scheduling in ad hoc wireless networks that have to support a mixture of best-effort and real-time traffic. Optimization and stochastic network theory have been successful in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-12-13 Juan Jose Jaramillo , R. Srikant

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

We consider the online busy time scheduling problem motivated by energy and cost minimization in cloud computing systems. The input is a set of jobs $J=\{1,\dots,n\}$ where each job $j\in J$ has a release time $r_j$, deadline $d_j$, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Susanne Albers , G. Wessel van der Heijden

Motivated by real-world applications, we study the fair allocation of graphical resources, where the resources are the vertices in a graph. Upon receiving a set of resources, an agent's utility equals the weight of a maximum matching in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Zheng Chen , Bo Li , Minming Li , Guochuan Zhang

We consider here the MultiBot problem for the scheduling and the resource parametrization of jobs related to the production or the transportation of different products inside a given time horizon. Those jobs must meet known in advance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Pierre Bergé , Mari Chaikovskaia , Jean-Philippe Gayon , Alain Quilliot

We consider the problem of fairly and efficiently allocating indivisible items (goods or bads) under capacity constraints. In this setting, we are given a set of categorized items. Each category has a capacity constraint (the same for all…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Hila Shoshan , Erel Segal-Halevi , Noam Hazon

We study the fair allocation of undesirable indivisible items, or chores. While the case of desirable indivisible items (or goods) is extensively studied, with many results known for different notions of fairness, less is known about the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Umang Bhaskar , A. R. Sricharan , Rohit Vaish

We study a fair allocation problem of indivisible items under additive externalities in which each agent also receives values from items that are assigned to other agents. We propose several new fairness concepts. We extend the well-studied…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Haris Aziz , Warut Suksompong , Zhaohong Sun , Toby Walsh

We consider a multi-organizational system in which each organization contributes processors to the global pool but also jobs to be processed on the common resources. The fairness of the scheduling algorithm is essential for the stability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Piotr Skowron , Krzysztof Rzadca

Task allocation problems have traditionally focused on cost optimization. However, more and more attention is being given to cases in which cost should not always be the sole or major consideration. In this paper we study a fair task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Qing Chuan Ye , Yingqian Zhang , Rommert Dekker

We consider the problem of designing a fair scheduling algorithm for discrete-time constrained queuing networks. Each queue has dedicated exogenous packet arrivals. There are constraints on which queues can be served simultaneously. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Srikanth Jagabathula , Devavrat Shah

We consider the problem of dividing limited resources to individuals arriving over $T$ rounds. Each round has a random number of individuals arrive, and individuals can be characterized by their type (i.e. preferences over the different…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Sean R. Sinclair , Gauri Jain , Siddhartha Banerjee , Christina Lee Yu

In fair division problems, we are given a set $S$ of $m$ items and a set $N$ of $n$ agents with individual preferences, and the goal is to find an allocation of items among agents so that each agent finds the allocation fair. There are…

Parallel machine scheduling has been extensively studied in the past decades, with applications ranging from production planning to job processing in large computing clusters. In this work we study some of these fundamental optimization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Yael Mordechai

In this paper, we consider the following dynamic fair allocation problem: Given a sequence of job arrivals and departures, the goal is to maintain an approximately fair allocation of the resource against a target fair allocation policy,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Sungjin Im , Benjamin Moseley , Kamesh Munagala , Kirk Pruhs

Resource allocation problems are a fundamental domain in which to evaluate the fairness properties of algorithms. The trade-offs between fairness and utilization have a long history in this domain. A recent line of work has considered…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Kate Donahue , Jon Kleinberg