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We consider the problem of fairly allocating the vertices of a graph among $n$ agents, where the value of a bundle is determined by its cut value -- the number of edges with exactly one endpoint in the bundle. This model naturally captures…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Hadi Hosseini , Shraddha Pathak , Yu Zhou

We here address the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods or chores to $n$ agents with weights that define their entitlement to the set of indivisible resources. Stemming from well-studied fairness concepts such as envy-freeness up…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Max Springer , Hadi Yami

We study the problem of finding approximate envy-free allocations up to any $k$ goods ($\alpha$-EFkX), when agents have additive values over goods in a bundle. As our main result, we show that for any $k>2$, $\frac{k+1}{k+2}$-EFkX…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Georgios Kalantzis , Fangxiao Wang

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods among agents which are equipped with {\em leveled} valuation functions. Such preferences, that have been studied before in economics and fair division literature, capture a simple…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-17 George Christodoulou , Vasilis Christoforidis

We study fair allocation of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. We obtain novel approximation guarantees for three of the strongest fairness notions in discrete fair division, namely envy-free up to the removal of any…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Siddharth Barman , Debajyoti Kar , Shraddha Pathak

We study an online version of the max-min fair allocation problem for indivisible items. In this problem, items arrive one by one, and each item must be allocated irrevocably on arrival to one of $n$ agents, who have additive valuations for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yasushi Kawase , Hanna Sumita

We investigate the query complexity of the fair allocation of indivisible goods. For two agents with arbitrary monotonic utilities, we design an algorithm that computes an allocation satisfying envy-freeness up to one good (EF1), a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Hoon Oh , Ariel D. Procaccia , Warut Suksompong

We study a fair division problem in (multi)graphs where $n$ agents (vertices) are pairwise connected by items (edges), and each agent is only interested in its incident items. We consider how to allocate items to incident agents in an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Bo Li , Ankang Sun , Mashbat Suzuki , Shiji Xing

The theory of algorithmic fair allocation is within the center of multi-agent systems and economics in the last decade due to its industrial and social importance. At a high level, the problem is to assign a set of items that are either…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Haris Aziz , Bo Li , Herve Moulin , Xiaowei Wu

We consider the stable assignment problem on a graph with nonnegative real capacities on the edges and quotas on the vertices, in which the preferences of agents are given via diversifying choice functions. We prove that for any input of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Alexander V. Karzanov

We initiate the study of fair distribution of delivery tasks among a set of agents wherein delivery jobs are placed along the vertices of a graph. Our goal is to fairly distribute delivery costs (modeled as a submodular function) among a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Hadi Hosseini , Shivika Narang , Tomasz Wąs

In this paper, we study the classic problem of fairly allocating indivisible items with the extra feature that the items lie on a line. Our goal is to find a fair allocation that is contiguous, meaning that the bundle of each agent forms a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Warut Suksompong

We consider the problem of fairly and efficiently allocating indivisible items (goods or bads) under capacity constraints. In this setting, we are given a set of categorized items. Each category has a capacity constraint (the same for all…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Hila Shoshan , Erel Segal-Halevi , Noam Hazon

Allocating $m$ indivisible goods among $n$ agents is a fundamental task in fair division. Recent work of Garg and Psomas [AAMAS 2025] initiated the study of parallel algorithms for envy-free up to one good (EF1) allocations, giving NC…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kishen N Gowda , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Richard Z Huang , Gregory Kehne

Given a hypergraph with uncertain node weights following known probability distributions, we study the problem of querying as few nodes as possible until the identity of a node with minimum weight can be determined for each hyperedge.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Evripidis Bampis , Christoph Dürr , Thomas Erlebach , Murilo S. de Lima , Nicole Megow , Jens Schlöter

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

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 consider the problem of fairly dividing a set of heterogeneous divisible resources among agents with different preferences. We focus on the setting where the resources correspond to the edges of a connected graph, every agent must be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm , Sebastian Ordyniak

We introduce and study the problem of designing optimal contracts under fairness constraints on the task assignments and compensations. We adopt the notion of envy-free (EF) and its relaxations, $\epsilon$-EF and envy-free up to one item…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Matteo Castiglioni , Junjie Chen , Yingkai Li

We study the fair allocation of indivisible resources among agents. Most prior work focuses on fairness and/or efficiency among agents. However, the allocator, as the resource owner, may also be involved in many scenarios (e.g., government…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao