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We study the fair division of indivisible items among $n$ agents with heterogeneous additive valuations, subject to lower and upper quotas on the number of items allocated to each agent. Such constraints are crucial in various applications,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Hirota Kinoshita , Ayumi Igarashi

We investigate fairness in the allocation of indivisible items among groups of agents using the notion of maximin share (MMS). While previous work has shown that no nontrivial multiplicative MMS approximation can be guaranteed in this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods among a set of agents. Our focus is on the existence of allocations that give each agent their maximin fair share--the value they are guaranteed if they divide the goods into as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sirin Botan , Angus Ritossa , Mashbat Suzuki , Toby Walsh

We study the maximin share (MMS) fair allocation of $m$ indivisible chores to $n$ agents who have costs for completing the assigned chores. It is known that exact MMS fairness cannot be guaranteed, and so far the best-known approximation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Bo Li , Fangxiao Wang , Yu Zhou

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of m indivisible chores (items with non-positive value) to n agents. We consider the desirable fairness notion of 1-out-of-d maximin share (MMS) -- the minimum value that an agent can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Hadi Hosseini , Andrew Searns , Erel Segal-Halevi

We study the problem of fair allocation of a set of indivisible items among agents with additive valuations, under cardinality constraints. In this setting, the items are partitioned into categories, each with its own limit on the number of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Halvard Hummel , Magnus Lie Hetland

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible items among a set of agents. We consider the notion of (approximate) maximin share (MMS) and we provide an improved lower bound of $1/2$ (which is tight) for the case of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-10 George Christodoulou , Vasilis Christoforidis , Symeon Mastrakoulis , Alkmini Sgouritsa

We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. The fair division literature has traditionally focused on two broad classes of fairness notions: envy-based notions and share-based notions. Within the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Hannaneh Akrami , Timo Reichert

This work addresses fair allocation of indivisible items in settings wherein it is feasible to create copies of resources or dispose of tasks. We establish that exact maximin share (MMS) fairness can be achieved via limited duplication of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Siddharth Barman , Satyanand Rammohan , Aditi Sethia

We study the problem of fair allocation for indivisible goods. We use the the maxmin share paradigm introduced by Budish as a measure for fairness. Procaccia and Wang (EC'14) were first to investigate this fundamental problem in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Mohammad Ghodsi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Masoud Seddighin , Saeed Seddighin , Hadi Yami

We study a fundamental fair allocation problem, where the agent's value is determined by the number of bins either used to pack or cover the items allocated to them. Fairness is evaluated using the maximin share (MMS) criterion. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Bo Li , Ankang Sun , Zunyu Wang , Yu Zhou

We consider the problem of guaranteeing maximin-share (MMS) when allocating a set of indivisible items to a set of agents with fractionally subadditive (XOS) valuations. For XOS valuations, it has been previously shown that for some…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hannaneh Akrami , Kurt Mehlhorn , Masoud Seddighin , Golnoosh Shahkarami

We initiate the work on maximin share (MMS) fair allocation of m indivisible chores to n agents using only their ordinal preferences, from both algorithmic and mechanism design perspectives. The previous best-known approximation is 2-1/n by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Haris Aziz , Bo Li , Xiaowei Wu

The problem of fair division of indivisible goods has been receiving much attention recently. The prominent metric of envy-freeness can always be satisfied in the divisible goods setting (see for example \cite{BT95}), but often cannot be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Kevin Hsu

We study the problem of computing \emph{fair} divisions of a set of indivisible goods among agents with \emph{additive} valuations. For the past many decades, the literature has explored various notions of fairness, that can be primarily…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hannaneh Akrami , Nidhi Rathi

We study the multi-party randomized communication complexity of computing a fair allocation of $m$ indivisible goods to $n < m$ equally entitled agents. We first consider MMS allocations, allocations that give every agent at least her…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Uriel Feige

We consider Max-min Share (MmS) allocations of items both in the case where items are goods (positive utility) and when they are chores (negative utility). We show that fair allocations of goods and chores have some fundamental connections…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Haris Aziz , Gerhard Rauchecker , Guido Schryen , Toby Walsh

The classic fair division problems assume the resources to be allocated are either divisible or indivisible, or contain a mixture of both, but the agents always have a predetermined and uncontroversial agreement on the (in)divisibility of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Xiaohui Bei , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu

We consider the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible items under the criteria of the maximin share guarantee. Specifically, we study approximation of maximin share allocations under hereditary set system valuations, in which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Halvard Hummel

We initiate the work on fair and strategyproof allocation of indivisible chores. The fairness concept we consider in this paper is maxmin share (MMS) fairness. We consider three previously studied models of information elicited from the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Haris Aziz , Bo Li , Xiaowei Wu