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We study the classic problem of dividing a collection of indivisible resources in a fair and efficient manner among a set of agents having varied preferences. Pareto optimality is a standard notion of economic efficiency, which states that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Ioannis Caragiannis , Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen , Nidhi Rathi

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible items among agents whose preferences include externalities. Unlike the standard fair division model, agents may derive positive or negative utility not only from items allocated…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Frank Connor , Max Dupré la Tour , Vishnu V. Narayan , Šimon Schierreich

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods and chores under category constraints. Specifically, there are $n$ agents and $m$ indivisible items which are partitioned into categories with associated capacities. An allocation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ayumi Igarashi , Frédéric Meunier

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of $m$ goods among $n$ agents in the asymptotic setting, where each item's value for each agent is drawn from an underlying joint distribution. Prior works have shown that if this distribution…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jugal Garg , Vishnu V. Narayan , Yuang Eric Shen

Cake-cutting is a playful name for the fair division of a heterogeneous, divisible good among agents, a well-studied problem at the intersection of mathematics, economics, and artificial intelligence. The cake-cutting literature is rich and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Peter Kern , Daniel Neugebauer , Jörg Rothe , René L. Schilling , Dietrich Stoyan , Robin Weishaupt

In this paper, we consider the problem of exploring unknown environments with autonomous agents. We model the environment as a graph with edge weights and analyze the task of visiting all vertices of the graph at least once. The hardness of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer , Janosch Fuchs , Ulla Karhumäki , Walter Unger

We study four NP-hard optimal seat arrangement problems [Bodlaender et al., 2020a], which each have as input a set of n agents, where each agent has cardinal preferences over other agents, and an n-vertex undirected graph (called seat…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Esra Ceylan , Jiehua Chen , Sanjukta Roy

The paper considers fair allocation of indivisible nondisposable items that generate disutility (chores). We assume that these items are placed in the vertices of a graph and each agent's share has to form a connected subgraph of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Sylvain Bouveret , Katarína Cechlárová , Julien Lesca

We study the problem of exploring all vertices of an undirected weighted graph that is initially unknown to the searcher. An edge of the graph is only revealed when the searcher visits one of its endpoints. Beginning at some start node, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Robin Fritsch

Partitioning a graph into blocks of roughly equal weight while cutting only few edges is a fundamental problem in computer science with numerous practical applications. While shared-memory parallel partitioners have recently matured to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Peter Sanders , Daniel Seemaier

We have a set of processors (or agents) and a set of graph networks defined over some vertex set. Each processor can access a subset of the graph networks. Each processor has a demand specified as a pair of vertices $<u, v>$, along with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-08 Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy , Sambuddha Roy , Yogish Sabharwal

Cake-cutting algorithms, which aim to fairly allocate a continuous resource based on individual agent preferences, have seen significant progress over the past two decades. Much of the research has concentrated on fairness, with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yaron Salman , Tamir Tassa , Omer Lev , Roie Zivan

We study the fair division of indivisible goods with conflicts between pairs of goods, represented by a graph $G = (V, E)$. We consider ``soft'' conflicts: assigning two adjacent goods to the same agent is allowed, but we seek allocations…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Hirotaka Yoneda , Masataka Yoneda

The goal of graph inference is to design algorithms for learning properties of a hidden graph using queries to an oracle that returns information about the graph. Graph reconstruction, verification, and property testing are all types of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Huck Bennett , Mitchell Black , Amir Nayyeri , Evelyn Warton

Many fixed-parameter tractable algorithms using a bounded search tree have been repeatedly improved, often by describing a larger number of branching rules involving an increasingly complex case analysis. We introduce a novel and general…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-05-19 James Nastos , Yong Gao

Using a lab experiment, we investigate the real-life performance of envy-free and proportional cake-cutting procedures with respect to fairness and preference manipulation. We find that envy-free procedures, in particular Selfridge-Conway,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Maria Kyropoulou , Josué Ortega , Erel Segal-Halevi

We consider the complexity of finding envy-free allocations for the class of graphical valuations. Graphical valuations were introduced by Christodoulou et. al.(2023) as a structured class of valuations that admit allocations that are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Neeldhara Misra , Aditi Sethia

In the recently introduced model of fair partitioning of friends, there is a set of agents located on the vertices of an underlying graph that indicates the friendships between the agents. The task is to partition the graph into $k$…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Stavros D. Ioannidis , Dušan Knop , Šimon Schierreich

We consider the problem of collective exploration of a known $n$-node edge-weighted graph by $k$ mobile agents that have limited energy but are capable of energy transfers. The agents are initially placed at an arbitrary subset of nodes in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-02-26 J. Czyzowicz , S. Dobrev , R. Killick , E. Kranakis , D. Krizanc , L. Narayanan , J. Opatrny , D. Pankratov , S. Shende

The planted densest subgraph detection problem refers to the task of testing whether in a given (random) graph there is a subgraph that is unusually dense. Specifically, we observe an undirected and unweighted graph on $n$ vertices. Under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Wasim Huleihel , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal