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We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among $n$ agents with the objective of maximizing Nash social welfare (NSW). This welfare function is defined as the geometric mean of the agents' valuations and, hence, it strikes a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Siddharth Barman , Anand Krishna , Pooja Kulkarni , Shivika Narang

Multiwinner voting rules can be used to select a fixed-size committee from a larger set of candidates. We consider approval-based committee rules, which allow voters to approve or disapprove candidates. In this setting, several voting rules…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Dominik Peters

We analyze the sketching approximability of constraint satisfaction problems on Boolean domains, where the constraints are balanced linear threshold functions applied to literals. In~particular, we explore the approximability of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Chi-Ning Chou , Alexander Golovnev , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi , Madhu Sudan , Santhoshini Velusamy

We investigate a model of sequential decision-making where a single alternative is chosen at each round. We focus on two objectives -- utilitarian welfare (Util) and egalitarian welfare (Egal) -- and consider the computational complexity of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Edith Elkind , Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Nicholas Teh

Coalition formation studies how to partition a set of agents into disjoint coalitions under consideration of their preferences. We study the classical objective of stability in a variant of additively separable hedonic games where agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Fabian Frank , Matija Novaković , René Romen

We introduce and analyze an extension to the matching problem on a weighted bipartite graph: Assignment with Type Constraints. The two parts of the graph are partitioned into subsets called types and blocks; we seek a matching with the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Nawal Benabbou , Mithun Chakraborty , Vinh Ho Xuan , Jakub Sliwinski , Yair Zick

A principal delegates a project to a team $S$ from a pool of $n$ agents. The project's value if all agents in $S$ exert costly effort is $f(S)$. To incentivize the agents to participate, the principal assigns each agent $i\in S$ a share…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Gil Aharoni , Martin Hoefer , Inbal Talgam-Cohen

An energy community is modeled as a cooperative game, where a veto player is needed beyond the prosumers to manage the community, and the worth of a coalition is its benefit compared to the selfish behaviour of the prosumers. Properties of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Giancarlo Bigi , Davide Fioriti , Antonio Frangioni , Mauro Passacantando , Davide Poli

The computational study of equilibria involving constraints on players' strategies has been largely neglected. However, in real-world applications, players are usually subject to constraints ruling out the feasibility of some of their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Martino Bernasconi , Matteo Castiglioni , Alberto Marchesi , Francesco Trovò , Nicola Gatti

In the committee selection problem, we are given $m$ candidates, and $n$ voters. Candidates can have different weights. A committee is a subset of candidates, and its weight is the sum of weights of its candidates. Each voter expresses an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Zhihao Jiang , Kamesh Munagala , Kangning Wang

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible items to agents with different entitlements, which captures, for example, the distribution of ministries among political parties in a coalition government. Our focus is on picking…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Mithun Chakraborty , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin , Warut Suksompong

In this paper we focus on noncooperative games with uncertain constraints coupling the agents' decisions. We consider a setting where bounded deviations of agents' decisions from the equilibrium are possible, and uncertain constraints are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 George Pantazis , Filiberto Fele , Kostas Margellos

We study the fair and truthful allocation of m divisible public items among n agents, each with distinct preferences for the items. To aggregate agents' preferences fairly, we focus on finding a core solution. For divisible items, a core…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Pouya Kananian , Arnesh Sujanani , Seyed Majid Zahedi

We introduce a single-winner perspective on voting on matchings, in which voters have preferences over possible matchings in a graph, and the goal is to select a single collectively desirable matching. Unlike in classical matching problems,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Niclas Boehmer , Jessica Dierking

For any $\varepsilon>0$, we give a simple, deterministic $(4+\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm for the Nash social welfare (NSW) problem under submodular valuations. We also consider the asymmetric variant of the problem, where the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jugal Garg , Edin Husić , Wenzheng Li , László A. Végh , Jan Vondrák

We consider the joint scheduling-and-power-allocation problem of a downlink cellular system. The system consists of two groups of users: real-time (RT) and non-real-time (NRT) users. Given some average power constraint on the base station,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Ahmed Ewaisha , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to agents with weights corresponding to their entitlements. Previous work has shown that, when agents have binary additive valuations, the maximum weighted Nash welfare rule is…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-10-10 Warut Suksompong , Nicholas Teh

We study fair division of indivisible goods in a single-parameter environment. In particular, we develop truthful social welfare maximizing mechanisms for fairly allocating indivisible goods. Our fairness guarantees are in terms of solution…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Siddharth Barman , Ganesh Ghalme , Shweta Jain , Pooja Kulkarni , Shivika Narang

Recently Cole and Gkatzelis gave the first constant factor approximation algorithm for the problem of allocating indivisible items to agents, under additive valuations, so as to maximize the Nash Social Welfare. We give constant factor…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Nima Anari , Tung Mai , Shayan Oveis Gharan , Vijay V. Vazirani

We study the problem of finding approximate Nash equilibria that satisfy certain conditions, such as providing good social welfare. In particular, we study the problem $\epsilon$-NE $\delta$-SW: find an $\epsilon$-approximate Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Argyrios Deligkas , John Fearnley , Rahul Savani