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We consider the task of allocating indivisible items to agents, when the agents' preferences over the items are identical. The preferences are captured by means of a directed acyclic graph, with vertices representing items and an edge…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Nina Chiarelli , Clément Dallard , Andreas Darmann , Stefan Lendl , Martin Milanič , Peter Muršič , Ulrich Pferschy

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

The stable roommates problem is a non-bipartite version of the stable matching problem in a bipartite graph. In this paper, we consider the stable roommates problem with ties. In particular, we focus on strong stability, which is one of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Naoyuki Kamiyama

We study graphs and two-player games in which rewards are assigned to states, and the goal of the players is to satisfy or dissatisfy certain property of the generated outcome, given as a mean payoff property. Since the notion of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Tomáš Brázdil , Vojtěch Forejt , Antonín Kučera , Petr Novotný

In the stable marriage problem, a set of men and a set of women are given, each of whom has a strictly ordered preference list over the acceptable agents in the opposite class. A matching is called stable if it is not blocked by any pair of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Ágnes Cseh , Klaus Heeger

We study preferential attachment mechanisms in random graphs that are parameterized by (i) a constant bias affecting the degree-biased distribution on the vertex set and (ii) the distribution of times at which new vertices are created by…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Benjamin Bloem-Reddy , Peter Orbanz

We propose a new variant of the group activity selection problem (GASP), where the agents are placed on a social network and activities can only be assigned to connected subgroups. We show that if multiple groups can simultaneously engage…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ayumi Igarashi , Dominik Peters , Edith Elkind

Coalition formation over graphs is a well studied class of games whose players are vertices and feasible coalitions must be connected subgraphs. In this setting, the existence and computation of equilibria, under various notions of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Angelo Fanelli , Laurent Gourvès , Ayumi Igarashi , Luca Moscardelli

We study the graphs formed from instances of the stable matching problem by connecting pairs of elements with an edge when there exists a stable matching in which they are matched. Our results include the NP-completeness of recognizing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-10-20 David Eppstein

In the Hospitals/Residents (HR) problem, agents are partitioned into hospitals and residents. Each agent wishes to be matched to an agent in the other set and has a strict preference over these potential matches. A matching is stable if…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Georgios Askalidis , Nicole Immorlica , Augustine Kwanashie , David F. Manlove , Emmanouil Pountourakis

We examine the problem of gathering $k \geq 2$ agents (or multi-agent rendezvous) in dynamic graphs which may change in every synchronous round but remain always connected ($1$-interval connectivity) [KLO10]. The agents are identical and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Othon Michail , Paul G. Spirakis , Michail Theofilatos

This paper analyzes the problem of assigning weights to edges incrementally in a dynamic complete bipartite graph consisting of producer and consumer nodes. The objective is to minimize the overall cost while satisfying certain constraints.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Ankur Sahai

Graph planning gives rise to fundamental algorithmic questions such as shortest path, traveling salesman problem, etc. A classical problem in discrete planning is to consider a weighted graph and construct a path that maximizes the sum of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen

We consider fair allocation of indivisible items under an additional constraint: there is an undirected graph describing the relationship between the items, and each agent's share must form a connected subgraph of this graph. This framework…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Sylvain Bouveret , Katarína Cechlárová , Edith Elkind , Ayumi Igarashi , Dominik Peters

Many allocation problems in multiagent systems rely on agents specifying cardinal preferences. However, allocation mechanisms can be sensitive to small perturbations in cardinal preferences, thus causing agents who make ``small" or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Vijay Menon , Kate Larson

A central problem in multiagent systems is the fair assignment of objects to agents. In this paper, we initiate the analysis of classic majoritarian social choice functions in assignment. Exploiting the special structure of the assignment…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-20 Felix Brandt , Haoyuan Chen , Chris Dong , Patrick Lederer , Alexander Schlenga

Focusing on the bipartite Stable Marriage problem, we investigate different robustness measures related to stable matchings. We analyze the computational complexity of computing them and analyze their behavior in extensive experiments on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Kimon Boehmer , Niclas Boehmer

Stable flows generalize the well-known concept of stable matchings to markets in which transactions may involve several agents, forwarding flow from one to another. An instance of the problem consists of a capacitated directed network, in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Ágnes Cseh , Jannik Matuschke

We consider strategic games that are inspired by Schelling's model of residential segregation. In our model, the agents are partitioned into k types and need to select locations on an undirected graph. Agents can be either stubborn, in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Edith Elkind , Jiarui Gan , Ayumi Igarashi , Warut Suksompong , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We study the existence of stable matchings when agents have choice correspondences instead of preference relations. We extend the framework of \cite{chambers2017choice} by weakening the path independence assumption. For many-to-many…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-20 Varun Bansal , Mihir Bhattacharya , Ojasvi Khare