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We consider the fair allocation of indivisible items to several agents with additional conflict constraints. These are represented by a conflict graph where each item corresponds to a vertex of the graph and edges in the graph represent…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Nina Chiarelli , Matjaž Krnc , Martin Milanič , Ulrich Pferschy , Joachim Schauer

We consider item allocation to individual agents who have additive valuations, in settings in which there are protected groups, and the allocation needs to give each protected group its "fair" share of the total welfare. Informally, within…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Uriel Feige , Yehonatan Tahan

We consider the problem of sharing a set of indivisible goods among agents in a fair manner, namely such that the allocation is envy-free up to any good (EFX). We focus on the problem of computing an EFX allocation in the two-agent case and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Paul W. Goldberg , Kasper Høgh , Alexandros Hollender

In online combinatorial allocation, agents arrive sequentially and items are allocated in an online manner. The algorithm designer only knows the distribution of each agent's valuation, while the actual realization of the valuation is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Enze Sun , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Yifan Wang

We study fair and efficient allocation of divisible goods, in an online manner, among $n$ agents. The goods arrive online in a sequence of $T$ time periods. The agents' values for a good are revealed only after its arrival, and the online…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Siddharth Barman , Arindam Khan , Arnab Maiti

We explore the fair distribution of a set of $m$ indivisible chores among $n$ agents, where each agent's costs are evaluated using a monotone cost function. Our focus lies on two fairness criteria: envy-freeness up to any item (EFX) and a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Mahyar Afshinmehr , Matin Ansaripour , Alireza Danaei , Kurt Mehlhorn

Allocating indivisible items among a set of agents is a frequently studied discrete optimization problem. In the setting considered in this work, the agents' preferences over the items are assumed to be identical. We consider a very recent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Nina Chiarelli , Clément Dallard , Andreas Darmann , Stefan Lendl , Martin Milanič , Peter Muršič , Ulrich Pferschy

We consider the fair allocation of indivisible items to several agents and add a graph theoretical perspective to this classical problem. Namely, we introduce an incompatibility relation between pairs of items described in terms of a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Nina Chiarelli , Matjaž Krnc , Martin Milanič , Ulrich Pferschy , Nevena Pivač , Joachim Schauer

We study the online allocation of divisible items to $n$ agents with additive valuations for $p$-mean welfare maximization, a problem introduced by Barman, Khan, and Maiti~(2022). Our algorithmic and hardness results characterize the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Zhiyi Huang , Chui Shan Lee , Xinkai Shu , Zhaozi Wang

In standard fair division models, we assume that all agents are selfish. However, in many scenarios, division of resources has a direct impact on the whole group or even society. Therefore, we study fair allocations of indivisible items…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Argyris Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Tiger-Lily Goldsmith , Dušan Knop , Šimon Schierreich

The problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible items is a well-known challenge in the field of (computational) social choice. In this scenario, there is a fundamental incompatibility between notions of fairness (such as envy-freeness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Ayumi Igarashi , Martin Lackner , Oliviero Nardi , Arianna Novaro

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

We study fair allocation of indivisible goods and chores among agents with \emph{lexicographic} preferences -- a subclass of additive valuations. In sharp contrast to the goods-only setting, we show that an allocation satisfying…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Hadi Hosseini , Sujoy Sikdar , Rohit Vaish , Lirong Xia

The Santa Claus problem is a fundamental problem in fair division: the goal is to partition a set of heterogeneous items among heterogeneous agents so as to maximize the minimum value of items received by any agent. In this paper, we study…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-07 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , MohammadReza Khani , Debmalya Panigrahi , Max Springer

We study fair division of indivisible chores among $n$ agents with additive disutility functions. Two well-studied fairness notions for indivisible items are envy-freeness up to one/any item (EF1/EFX) and the standard notion of economic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Hannaneh Akrami , Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Jugal Garg , Kurt Mehlhorn , Ruta Mehta

In several smart city applications, multiple resources must be allocated among competing agents that are coupled through such shared resources and are constrained --- either through limitations of communication infrastructure or privacy…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Syed Eqbal Alam , Robert Shorten , Fabian Wirth , Jia Yuan Yu

We study fair allocation of indivisible chores to agents under budget constraints, where each chore has an objective size and disutility. This model captures scenarios where a set of chores need to be divided among agents with limited time,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Edith Elkind , Ayumi Igarashi , Nicholas Teh

Online allocation is a broad class of problems where items arriving online have to be allocated to agents who have a fixed utility/cost for each assigned item so to maximize/minimize some objective. This framework captures a broad range of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Ilan Reuven Cohen , Debmalya Panigrahi

We study the problem of allocating indivisible items to agents with additive valuations, under the additional constraint that bundles must be connected in an underlying item graph. Previous work has considered the existence and complexity…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ayumi Igarashi , Dominik Peters

The problem of fair division of indivisible goods is a fundamental problem of social choice. Recently, the problem was extended to the case when goods form a graph and the goal is to allocate goods to agents so that each agent's bundle…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Zbigniew Lonc , Miroslaw Truszczynski