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In the standard model of fair allocation of resources to agents, every agent has some utility for every resource, and the goal is to assign resources to agents so that the agents' welfare is maximized. Motivated by job scheduling, interest…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Susobhan Bandopadhyay , Aritra Banik , Sushmita Gupta , Pallavi Jain , Abhishek Sahu , Saket Saurabh , Prafullkumar Tale

We study a fair division problem in (multi)graphs where $n$ agents (vertices) are pairwise connected by items (edges), and each agent is only interested in its incident items. We consider how to allocate items to incident agents in an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Bo Li , Ankang Sun , Mashbat Suzuki , Shiji Xing

Finding an envy-free allocation of indivisible resources to agents is a central task in many multiagent systems. Often, non-trivial envy-free allocations do not exist, and, when they do, finding them can be computationally hard. Classical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Robert Bredereck , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Rolf Niedermeier

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible goods to multiple agents. Recent work [Bouveret and Lang, 2011] focused on allocating goods in a sequential way, and studied what is the "best" sequence of agents to pick objects based…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Wei Huang , Jian Lou , Zhonghua Wen

We study the problem of allocating indivisible objects to a set of rational agents where each agent's final utility depends on the intrinsic valuation of the allocated item as well as the allocation within the agent's local neighbourhood.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Sagar Massand , Sunil Simon

We study the allocation of indivisible goods under conflicting constraints, represented by a graph. In this framework, vertices correspond to goods and edges correspond to conflicts between a pair of goods. Each agent is allocated an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ayumi Igarashi , Pasin Manurangsi , Hirotaka Yoneda

We study the problem of mechanism design for allocating a set of indivisible items among agents with private preferences on items. We are interested in such a mechanism that is strategyproof (where agents' best strategy is to report their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Ankang Sun , Bo Chen

In fair division of indivisible goods, using sequences of sincere choices (or picking sequences) is a natural way to allocate the objects. The idea is as follows: at each stage, a designated agent picks one object among those that remain.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Aurélie Beynier , Sylvain Bouveret , Michel Lemaître , Nicolas Maudet , Simon Rey

Reallocating resources to get mutually beneficial outcomes is a fundamental problem in various multi-agent settings. While finding an arbitrary Pareto optimal allocation is generally easy, checking whether a particular allocation is Pareto…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Haris Aziz , Peter Biro , Jerome Lang , Julien Lesca , Jerome Monnot

We consider the assignment problem in which agents express ordinal preferences over $m$ objects and the objects are allocated to the agents based on the preferences. In a recent paper, Brams, Kilgour, and Klamler (2014) presented the AL…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Haris Aziz

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

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 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

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to groups of agents. Agents in the same group share the same set of goods even though they may have different preferences. Previous work has focused on unanimous fairness, in which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Erel Segal-Halevi , Warut Suksompong

We study the problem of Envy-Free Incomplete Connected Fair Division, where exactly p vertices of an undirected graph must be allocated to agents such that each agent receives a connected share and does not envy another agent's share.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ajaykrishnan E S , Daniel Lokshtanov

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 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

We consider the fair division of indivisible items among $n$ agents with additive non-negative normalized valuations, with the goal of obtaining high value guarantees, that is, close to the proportional share for each agent. We prove that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sushmita Gupta , Pallavi Jain , Sanjay Seetharaman , Meirav Zehavi

We consider the fair division problem of indivisible items. It is well-known that an envy-free allocation may not exist, and a relaxed version of envy-freeness, envy-freeness up to one item (EF1), has been widely considered. In an EF1…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

Motivated by real-world applications such as the allocation of public housing, we examine the problem of assigning a group of agents to vertices (e.g., spatial locations) of a network so that the diversity level is maximized. Specifically,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zirou Qiu , Andrew Yuan , Chen Chen , Madhav V. Marathe , S. S. Ravi , Daniel J. Rosenkrantz , Richard E. Stearns , Anil Vullikanti