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We study a dynamic market setting where an intermediary interacts with an unknown large sequence of agents that can be either sellers or buyers: their identities, as well as the sequence length $n$, are decided in an adversarial, online…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Yiannis Giannakopoulos , Elias Koutsoupias , Philip Lazos

In this paper we initiate the study of finding fair and efficient allocations of an indivisible mixed manna: Divide m indivisible items among n agents under the fairness notion of maximin share (MMS) and the efficiency notion of Pareto…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Rucha Kulkarni , Ruta Mehta , Setareh Taki

We study an edge-weighted online stochastic \emph{Generalized Assignment Problem} with \emph{unknown} Poisson arrivals. In this model, we consider a bipartite graph that contains offline bins and online items, where each offline bin is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zihao Li , Hao Wang , Zhenzhen Yan

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

Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) provides a strong and intuitive guarantee of fairness in the allocation of indivisible goods. But whether such allocations always exist or whether they can be efficiently computed remains an important open…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Hadi Hosseini , Sujoy Sikdar , Rohit Vaish , Lirong Xia

Fair allocation of indivisible goods is a fundamental problem at the interface of economics and computer science. Traditional approaches focus either on randomized allocations that are fair in expectation or deterministic allocations that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Telikepalli Kavitha , Surya Panchapakesan , Rohit Vaish , Vignesh Viswanathan , Jatin Yadav

Online models that allow recourse are highly effective in situations where classical models are too pessimistic. One such problem is the online machine covering problem on identical machines. In this setting, jobs arrive one by one and must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Waldo Gálvez , José A. Soto , José Verschae

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

In the Submodular Welfare Maximization (SWM) problem, the input consists of a set of $n$ items, each of which must be allocated to one of $m$ agents. Each agent $\ell$ has a valuation function $v_\ell$, where $v_\ell(S)$ denotes the welfare…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Nitish Korula , Vahab Mirrokni , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

Consider the continuous distributed monitoring model in which $n$ distributed nodes, receiving individual data streams, are connected to a designated server. The server is asked to continuously monitor a function defined over the values…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Alexander Mäcker , Manuel Malatyali , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

The k-SERVER problem is one of the most prominent problems in online algorithms with several variants and extensions. However, simplifying assumptions like instantaneous server movements and zero service time has hitherto limited its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Daman Deep Singh , Amit Kumar , Abhijnan Chakraborty

We consider the online $k$-taxi problem, a generalization of the $k$-server problem, in which $k$ servers are located in a metric space. A sequence of requests is revealed one by one, where each request is a pair of two points, representing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Niv Buchbinder , Christian Coester , Joseph , Naor

We consider the online stochastic matching problem proposed by Feldman et al. [FMMM09] as a model of display ad allocation. We are given a bipartite graph; one side of the graph corresponds to a fixed set of bins and the other side…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-03 Vahideh H. Manshadi , Shayan Oveis Gharan , Amin Saberi

For two matroids $\mathcal{M}_1$ and $\mathcal{M}_2$ defined on the same ground set $E$, the online matroid intersection problem is to design an algorithm that constructs a large common independent set in an online fashion. The algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Guru Guruganesh , Sahil Singla

We present prior robust algorithms for a large class of resource allocation problems where requests arrive one-by-one (online), drawn independently from an unknown distribution at every step. We design a single algorithm that, for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Nikhil R. Devanur , Kamal Jain , Balasubramanian Sivan , Christopher A. Wilkens

This paper presents a new research direction for the Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) - a problem introduced by Emek et al. (STOC'16). In the original version of this problem, we are given an $n$-point metric space, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Mathieu Mari , Michał Pawłowski , Runtian Ren , Piotr Sankowski

We design online algorithms for the fair allocation of public goods to a set of $N$ agents over a sequence of $T$ rounds and focus on improving their performance using predictions. In the basic model, a public good arrives in each round,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Siddhartha Banerjee , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Safwan Hossain , Billy Jin , Evi Micha , Nisarg Shah

We consider an online multi-weighted generalization of several classic online optimization problems, called the online combinatorial assignment problem. We are given an independence system over a ground set of elements and agents that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Javier Marinkovic , José A. Soto , Victor Verdugo

Motivated by Internet advertising applications, online allocation problems have been studied extensively in various adversarial and stochastic models. While the adversarial arrival models are too pessimistic, many of the stochastic (such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Hossein Esfandiari , Nitish Korula , Vahab Mirrokni

Inspired by online ad allocation, we study online stochastic packing linear programs from theoretical and practical standpoints. We first present a near-optimal online algorithm for a general class of packing linear programs which model…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-17 Jon Feldman , Monika Henzinger , Nitish Korula , Vahab S. Mirrokni , Cliff Stein