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Fairness and privacy are two important concerns in social decision-making processes such as resource allocation. We study privacy in the fair allocation of indivisible resources using the well-established framework of differential privacy.…

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We study the fair allocation of indivisible items for groups of agents from the perspectives of the agents and a centralized allocator. In our setting, the centralized allocator is interested in ensuring the allocation is fair among the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ying Wang , Jiaqian Li , Tianze Wei , Hau Chan , Minming Li

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 initiate the study of multi-layered cake cutting with the goal of fairly allocating multiple divisible resources (layers of a cake) among a set of agents. The key requirement is that each agent can only utilize a single resource at each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Hadi Hosseini , Ayumi Igarashi , Andrew Searns

We consider the problem of assigning agents to programs in the presence of two-sided preferences, commonly known as the Hospital Residents problem. In the standard setting each program has a rigid upper-quota which cannot be violated.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Girija Limaye , Meghana Nasre

When selecting locations for a set of facilities, standard clustering algorithms may place unfair burden on some individuals and neighborhoods. We formulate a fairness concept that takes local population densities into account. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Christopher Jung , Sampath Kannan , Neil Lutz

The facility location problem is a well-known challenge in logistics that is proven to be NP-hard. In this paper we specifically simulate the geographical placement of facilities to provide adequate service to customers. Determining…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Peter Hillmann , Tobias Uhlig , Gabi Dreo Rodosek , Oliver Rose

We study the competitive facility location problem, where a firm aims to establish new facilities in a market already occupied by competitors. In this problem, customer behavior is crucial for making optimal location decisions. We explore a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Ba Luat Le , Tien Mai , Thuy Anh Ta , Minh Hoang Ha , Duc Minh Vu

We consider the problem of using location queries to monitor the congestion potential among a collection of entities moving, with bounded speed but otherwise unpredictably, in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. Uncertainty in entity locations…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-05-09 William Evans , David Kirkpatrick

We study the online facility assignment problem on regular polygons, where all sides are of equal length. The influence of specific geometric settings has remained mostly unexplored, even though classical online facility assignment problems…

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In the Hospitals/Residents problem, every hospital has an upper quota that limits the number of residents assigned to it. While, in some applications, each hospital also has a lower quota for the number of residents it receives. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Changyong Hu , Vijay K. Garg

Fair division of indivisible goods is a very well-studied problem. The goal of this problem is to distribute $m$ goods to $n$ agents in a "fair" manner, where every agent has a valuation for each subset of goods. We assume general…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Tellikepalli Kavitha , Kurt Mehlhorn , Alkmini Sgouritsa

We study the problem of fairly allocating $m$ indivisible goods to $n$ agents, where agents may have different preferences over the goods. In the traditional setting, agents' valuations are provided as inputs to the algorithm. In this…

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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

This paper addresses the general continuous single facility location problems in finite dimension spaces under possibly different $\ell_p$ norms in the demand points. We analyze the difficulty of this family of problems and revisit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Víctor Blanco , Justo Puerto , Safae El Haj Ben Ali

In the Seat Arrangement problem the goal is to allocate agents to vertices in a graph such that the resulting arrangement is optimal or fair in some way. Examples include an arrangement that maximises utility or one where no agent envies…

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In the Simple Plant Location Problem with Order (SPLPO), the aim is to open a subset of plants to assign every customer taking into account their preferences. Customers rank the plants in strict order and are assigned to their favorite open…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Concepción Domínguez , Juan de Dios Jaime-Alcántara

We study fair mechanisms for the classic job scheduling problem on unrelated machines with the objective of minimizing the makespan. This problem is equivalent to minimizing the egalitarian social cost in the fair division of chores. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Michal Feldman , Jugal Garg , Vishnu V. Narayan , Tomasz Ponitka

In this work we consider general facility location and social choice problems, in which sets of agents $\mathcal{A}$ and facilities $\mathcal{F}$ are located in a metric space, and our goal is to assign agents to facilities (as well as…

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