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Fair division considers the allocation of scarce resources among agents in such a way that every agent gets a fair share. It is a fundamental problem in society and has received significant attention and rapid developments from the game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu , Mashbat Suzuki , Toby Walsh

In the classic problem of fair cake-cutting, a single interval ("cake") has to be divided among n agents with different value measures, giving each agent a single sub-interval with a value of at least 1/n of the total. This paper studies a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Erel Segal-Halevi

We study the paradigmatic fair division problem of allocating a divisible good among agents with heterogeneous preferences, commonly known as cake cutting. Classical cake cutting protocols are susceptible to manipulation. Do their strategic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Simina Brânzei , Ioannis Caragiannis , David Kurokawa , Ariel D. Procaccia

The fair division of indivisible goods is not only a subject of theoretical research, but also an important problem in practice, with solutions being offered on several online platforms. Little is known, however, about the characteristics…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Paula Böhm , Robert Bredereck , Paul Gölz , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Stanisław Szufa

We consider fair allocation of indivisible items under an additional constraint: there is an undirected graph describing the relationship between the items, and each agent's share must form a connected subgraph of this graph. This framework…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Sylvain Bouveret , Katarína Cechlárová , Edith Elkind , Ayumi Igarashi , Dominik Peters

Classic cake-cutting algorithms enable people with different preferences to divide among them a heterogeneous resource (``cake''), such that the resulting division is fair according to each agent's individual preferences. However, these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Erel Segal-Halevi , Shmuel Nitzan , Avinatan Hassidim , Yonatan Aumann

In this note we study a problem of fair division in the absence of full information. We give an algorithm which solves the following problem: n $\ge$ 2 persons want to cut a cake into n shares so that each person will get at least 1/n of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Guillaume Chèze

Allocating resources to individuals in a fair manner has been a topic of interest since ancient times, with most of the early mathematical work on the problem focusing on resources that are infinitely divisible. Over the last decade, there…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Georgios Amanatidis , Haris Aziz , Georgios Birmpas , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Bo Li , Hervé Moulin , Alexandros A. Voudouris , Xiaowei Wu

We study the existence of fair distributions when we have more guests than pieces to allocate, focusing on envy-free distributions among those who receive a piece. The conditions on the demand from the guests can be weakened from those of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Pablo Soberón

We consider a setting in which a single divisible good ("cake") needs to be divided between n players, each with a possibly different valuation function over pieces of the cake. For this setting, we address the problem of finding divisions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Yonatan Aumann , Yair Dombb , Avinatan Hassidim

Cutting a cake is a metaphor for the problem of dividing a resource (cake) among several agents. The problem becomes non-trivial when the agents have different valuations for different parts of the cake (i.e. one agent may like chocolate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Payam Delgosha , Amin Gohari

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

We consider the classic problem of fairly dividing a heterogeneous good ("cake") among several agents with different valuations. Classic cake-cutting procedures either allocate each agent a collection of disconnected pieces, or assume that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Erel Segal-Halevi , Shmuel Nitzan , Avinatan Hassidim , Yonatan Aumann

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 consider the problem of fairly dividing a two dimensional heterogeneous good among multiple players. Applications include division of land as well as ad space in print and electronic media. Classical cake cutting protocols primarily…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Erel Segal-Halevi , Avinatan Hassidim , Yonatan Aumann

We study the fair allocation of a cake, which serves as a metaphor for a divisible resource, under the requirement that each agent should receive a contiguous piece of the cake. While it is known that no finite envy-free algorithm exists in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Paul W. Goldberg , Alexandros Hollender , Warut Suksompong

The fair division literature in economics considers how to divide resources between multiple agents such that the allocation is envy-free: each agent receives their favorite piece. Researchers have developed a variety of fair division…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Noah Bertram , Alex Levinson , Justin Hsu

In the work the fair division problem for two participants in presence of both divisible and indivisible items is considered. The set of all divisions is formally described; it is demonstrated that fair (in terms of Brams and Taylor)…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2016-07-11 Alexander Rubchinsky

The theory of algorithmic fair allocation is within the center of multi-agent systems and economics in the last decade due to its industrial and social importance. At a high level, the problem is to assign a set of items that are either…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Haris Aziz , Bo Li , Herve Moulin , Xiaowei Wu

We study the problem of fairly dividing a heterogeneous resource, commonly known as cake cutting and chore division, in the presence of strategic agents. While a number of results in this setting have been established in previous works,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xiaohui Bei , Guangda Huzhang , Warut Suksompong