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We study the problem of fair allocation of indivisible items when agents have ternary additive valuations -- each agent values each item at some fixed integer values $a$, $b$, or $c$ that are common to all agents. The notions of fairness we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Zack Fitzsimmons , Vignesh Viswanathan , Yair Zick

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 consider the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to agents with weights representing their entitlements. A natural rule in this setting is the maximum weighted Nash welfare (MWNW) rule, which selects an allocation maximizing…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-04-26 Warut Suksompong , Nicholas Teh

We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among agents in a fair and economically efficient manner. In this context, the Nash social welfare-defined as the geometric mean of agents' valuations for their assigned bundles-stands as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Siddharth Barman , Paritosh Verma

One of the important yet insufficiently studied subjects in fair allocation is the externality effect among agents. For a resource allocation problem, externalities imply that a bundle allocated to an agent may affect the utilities of other…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Mohammad Ghodsi , Hamed Saleh , Masoud Seddighin

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 the problem of allocating $m$ indivisible chores to $n$ agents with additive cost functions under the fairness notion of maximin share (MMS). In this work, we propose a notion called $\alpha$-approximate all-but-one maximin share…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Jiawei Qiu , Xiaowei Wu , Cong Zhang , Shengwei Zhou

Dynamic max-min fair allocation (DMMF) is a simple and popular mechanism for the repeated allocation of a shared resource among competing agents: in each round, each agent can choose to request or not for the resource, which is then…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Chido Onyeze , Siddhartha Banerjee , Giannis Fikioris , Éva Tardos

We study the fundamental problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods among $n$ agents with additive valuations using the desirable fairness notion of maximin share (MMS). MMS is the most popular share-based notion, in which an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Hannaneh Akrami , Jugal Garg

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 study the problem of fair online resource allocation via non-monetary mechanisms, where multiple agents repeatedly share a resource without monetary transfers. Previous work has shown that every agent can guarantee $1/2$ of their ideal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 David X. Lin , Daniel Hall , Giannis Fikioris , Siddhartha Banerjee , Éva Tardos

We introduce and formalize the notion of resource augmentation for maximin share (MMS) fairness for the allocation of indivisible goods. Given an instance with $n$ agents and $m$ goods, we ask how many copies of the goods should be added in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hannaneh Akrami , Siddharth Barman , Alon Eden , Michal Feldman , Amos Fiat , Yoav Gal-Tzur , Satyanand Rammohan , Aditi Sethia

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 fair division of indivisible goods under the maximin share (MMS) fairness criterion in settings where agents are grouped into a small number of types, with agents within each type having identical valuations. For the special case…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jugal Garg , Parnian Shahkar

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 study the allocation of shared resources over multiple rounds among competing agents, via the dynamic max-min fair (DMMF) mechanism: the good in each round is allocated to the requesting agent with the least number of allocations…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Giannis Fikioris , Siddhartha Banerjee , Éva Tardos

We consider the problem of allocating indivisible goods fairly among n agents who have additive and submodular valuations for the goods. Our fairness guarantees are in terms of the maximin share, that is defined to be the maximum value that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Siddharth Barman , Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy

Most of the existing algorithms for fair division do not consider externalities. Under externalities, the utility an agent obtains depends not only on its allocation but also on the allocation of other agents. An agent has a positive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Shaily Mishra , Manisha Padala , Sujit Gujar

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 consider the problem of assigning indivisible chores to agents with different entitlements in the maximin share value (\MMS) context. While constant-\MMS\ allocations/assignments are guaranteed to exist for both goods and chores in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Masoud Seddighin , Saeed Seddighin