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We consider the well-studied cake cutting problem in which the goal is to find an envy-free allocation based on queries from $n$ agents. The problem has received attention in computer science, mathematics, and economics. It has been a major…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Haris Aziz , Simon Mackenzie

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 well-studied cake cutting problem in which the goal is to identify a fair allocation based on a minimal number of queries from the agents. The problem has attracted considerable attention within various branches of computer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Haris Aziz , Simon Mackenzie

This paper extends the classic cake-cutting problem to a situation in which the "cake" is divided among families. Each piece of cake is owned and used simultaneously by all members of the family. A typical example of such a cake is land. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Erel Segal-Halevi , Shmuel Nitzan

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

In this article we study a cake cutting problem. More precisely, we study symmetric fair division algorithms, that is to say we study algorithms where the order of the players do not influence the value obtained by each player. In the first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Guillaume Chèze

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

We study the problem of fair division when the resources contain both divisible and indivisible goods. Classic fairness notions such as envy-freeness (EF) and envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) cannot be directly applied to the mixed goods…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Xiaohui Bei , Zihao Li , Jinyan Liu , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu

We study the computational complexity of fair division of indivisible items in an enriched model: there is an underlying graph on the set of items. And we have to allocate the items (i.e., the vertices of the graph) to a set of agents in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Jayakrishnan Madathil

Single minded agents have strict preferences, in which a bundle is acceptable only if it meets a certain demand. Such preferences arise naturally in scenarios such as allocating computational resources among users, where the goal is to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Simina Brânzei , Yuezhou Lv , Ruta Mehta

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

In this paper, we consider the classic fair division problem of allocating $m$ divisible items to $n$ agents with linear valuations over the items. We define novel notions of fair shares from the perspective of individual agents via the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yannan Bai , Kamesh Munagala , Yiheng Shen , Ian Zhang

Envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) is a well-studied fairness notion for indivisible goods that addresses pairwise envy by the removal of at most one good. In the worst case, each pair of agents might require the (hypothetical) removal of a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Hadi Hosseini , Sujoy Sikdar , Rohit Vaish , Jun Wang , Lirong Xia

In contrast to the classical cake-cutting problem (how to fairly divide a desirable object), "chore division" is the problem of how to divide an undesirable object. We develop the first explicit algorithm for envy-free chore division among…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-03 Elisha Peterson , Francis Edward Su

We study the problem of fairly allocating a divisible resource in the form of a graph, also known as graphical cake cutting. Unlike for the canonical interval cake, a connected envy-free allocation is not guaranteed to exist for a graphical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Sheung Man Yuen , Warut Suksompong

We study the fair division problem on divisible heterogeneous resources (the cake cutting problem) with strategic agents, where each agent can manipulate his/her private valuation in order to receive a better allocation. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Xiaolin Bu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

We consider the classical cake-cutting problem where we wish to fairly divide a heterogeneous resource, often modeled as a cake, among interested agents. Work on the subject typically assumes that the cake is represented by an interval. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Xiaohui Bei , Warut Suksompong

How to handle division in systems that compute with logical formulas involving what would otherwise be polynomial constraints over the real numbers is a surprisingly difficult question. This paper argues that existing approaches from both…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Christopher W. Brown

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 fair division of divisible bad resources with strategic agents who can manipulate their private information to get a better allocation. Within certain constraints, we are particularly interested in whether truthful envy-free…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Mohammad Azharuddin Sanpui