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Bipartite matching markets pair agents on one side of a market with agents, items, or contracts on the opposing side. Prior work addresses online bipartite matching markets, where agents arrive over time and are dynamically matched to a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-13 John P Dickerson , Karthik A Sankararaman , Aravind Srinivasan , Pan Xu

A Latin square is an $n \times n$ matrix filled with $n$ distinct symbols, each of which appears exactly once in each row and exactly once in each column. We introduce a problem of allocating $n$ indivisible items among $n$ agents over $n$…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yasushi Kawase , Bodhayan Roy , Mohammad Azharuddin Sanpui

Spatial search problems abound in the real world, from locating hidden nuclear or chemical sources to finding skiers after an avalanche. We exemplify the formalism and solution for spatial searches involving two agents that may or may not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-28 Vadas Gintautas , Aric Hagberg , Luis M. A. Bettencourt

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

We study a sequential resource allocation problem involving a fixed number of recurring jobs. At each time-step the manager should distribute available resources among the jobs in order to maximise the expected number of completed jobs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Tor Lattimore , Koby Crammer , Csaba Szepesvári

Assigning tasks to service providers is a frequent procedure across various applications. Often the tasks arrive dynamically while the service providers remain static. Preventing task rejection caused by service provider overload is of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yohai Trabelsi , Pan Xu , Sarit Kraus

Multiagent systems can use commitments as the core of a general coordination infrastructure, supporting both cooperative and non-cooperative interactions. Agents whose objectives are aligned, and where one agent can help another achieve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Qi Zhang , Edmund H. Durfee , Satinder Singh

In multi-agent systems, should limited resources be concentrated into a few capable agents or distributed among many simpler ones? This work formulates the split over $n$ resource sharing problem where a group of $n$ agents equally shares a…

The Stable Roommates problem involves matching a set of agents into pairs based on the agents' strict ordinal preference lists. The matching must be stable, meaning that no two agents strictly prefer each other to their assigned partners. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Michael McKay , David Manlove

Many interesting problems in the Internet industry can be framed as a two-sided marketplace problem. Examples include search applications and recommender systems showing people, jobs, movies, products, restaurants, etc. Incorporating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Kinjal Basu , Cyrus DiCiccio , Heloise Logan , Noureddine El Karoui

We study truthful mechanisms for matching and related problems in a partial information setting, where the agents' true utilities are hidden, and the algorithm only has access to ordinal preference information. Our model is motivated by the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Elliot Anshelevich , Shreyas Sekar

In this work, we formulate the problem of team formation amidst conflicts. The goal is to assign individuals to tasks, with given capacities, taking into account individuals' task preferences and the conflicts between them. Using dependent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Iasonas Nikolaou , Evimaria Terzi

Consider a matching problem on a graph where disjoint sets of vertices are privately owned by self-interested agents. An edge between a pair of vertices indicates compatibility and allows the vertices to match. We seek a mechanism to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Itai Ashlagi , Felix Fischer , Ian A. Kash , Ariel D. Procaccia

Research on multi-agent planning has been popular in recent years. While previous research has been motivated by the understanding that, through cooperation, multi-agent systems can achieve tasks that are unachievable by single-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Yu Zhang , Subbarao Kambhampati

Massive surges of enrollments in courses have led to a crisis in several computer science departments - not only is the demand for certain courses extremely high from majors, but the demand from non-majors is also very high. Much of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Arpita Biswas , Yiduo Ke , Samir Khuller , Quanquan C. Liu

In modern data center networks, thousands of hosts contend for shared link capacity; the scale of these systems makes centralized scheduling impractical. This article models such scheduling as a bipartite matching problem under…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Moonmoon Mohanty , Gautham Bolar , Preetam Patil , Ayalvadi Ganesh , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Parimal Parag

Multiagent planning and coordination problems are common and known to be computationally hard. We show that a wide range of two-agent problems can be formulated as bilinear programs. We present a successive approximation algorithm that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Marek Petrik , Shlomo Zilberstein

We consider the facility location problem in the one-dimensional setting where each facility can serve a limited number of agents from the algorithmic and mechanism design perspectives. From the algorithmic perspective, we prove that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Haris Aziz , Hau Chan , Barton E. Lee , Bo Li , Toby Walsh

Bipartite matching, where agents on one side of a market are matched to agents or items on the other, is a classical problem in computer science and economics, with widespread application in healthcare, education, advertising, and general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Faez Ahmed , John P. Dickerson , Mark Fuge

We investigate multi-organizational scheduling problems, building upon the framework introduced by Pascual et al.[2009]. In this setting, multiple organizations each own a set of identical machines and sequential jobs with distinct…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jiehua Chen , Martin Durand , Christian Hatschka