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House Allocations concern with matchings involving one-sided preferences, where houses serve as a proxy encoding valuable indivisible resources (e.g. organs, course seats, subsidized public housing units) to be allocated among the agents.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hadi Hosseini , Sanjukta Roy , Aditi Sethia

We introduce a graphical framework for fair division in cake cutting, where comparisons between agents are limited by an underlying network structure. We generalize the classical fairness notions of envy-freeness and proportionality to this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Xiaohui Bei , Youming Qiao , Shengyu Zhang

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

Partitioning a graph into blocks of "roughly equal" weight while cutting only few edges is a fundamental problem in computer science with a wide range of applications. In particular, the problem is a building block in applications that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Lars Gottesbüren , Tobias Heuer , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz , Daniel Seemaier

The fundamental goal assignment problem for a multi-robot application aims to assign a unique goal to each robot while ensuring collision-free paths, minimizing the total movement cost. A plausible algorithmic solution to this NP-hard…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Aakash , Indranil Saha

We study the problem of fair division when the resources contain both divisible and indivisible goods. Classic fairness notions such as envy-freeness (EF) and envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) cannot be directly applied to the mixed goods…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Xiaohui Bei , Zihao Li , Jinyan Liu , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem aims at finding non-conflicting paths for multiple agents from their respective sources to destinations. This problem arises in multiple real-life situations, including robot motion planning and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Aditi Anand , Dildar Ali , Suman Banerjee

We consider the fair allocation of indivisible items to several agents with additional conflict constraints. These are represented by a conflict graph where each item corresponds to a vertex of the graph and edges in the graph represent…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Nina Chiarelli , Matjaž Krnc , Martin Milanič , Ulrich Pferschy , Joachim Schauer

In several applications of real-time matching of demand to supply in online marketplaces, the platform allows for some latency to batch the demand and improve the efficiency. Motivated by these applications, we study the optimal trade-off…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yiding Feng , Rad Niazadeh

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 propose a new fairness notion, motivated by the practical challenge of allocating teaching assistants (TAs) to courses in a department. Each course requires a certain number of TAs and each TA has preferences over the courses they want…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Pallavi Jain , Palash Jha , Shubham Solanki

We propose a fair and efficient solution for assigning agents to m posts subject to congestion, when agents care about both their post and its congestion. Examples include assigning jobs to busy servers, students to crowded schools or…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-02-23 Anna Bogomolnaia , Herve Moulin

We consider the problem of allocating indivisible objects to agents when agents have strict preferences over objects. There are inherent trade-offs between competing notions of efficiency, fairness and incentives in assignment mechanisms.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-11-02 Priyanka Shende , Manish Purohit

We consider the fundamental problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible items among agents having valuations that are represented by a multi-graph -- here, agents appear as vertices and items as edges between them and each vertex…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Mahyar Afshinmehr , Alireza Danaei , Mehrafarin Kazemi , Kurt Mehlhorn , Nidhi Rathi

We study the problem of fairly allocating a multiset $M$ of $m$ indivisible items among $n$ agents with additive valuations. Specifically, we introduce a parameter $t$ for the number of distinct types of items and study fair allocations of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Pranay Gorantla , Kunal Marwaha , Santhoshini Velusamy

\textit{Fair division} of resources among competing agents is a fundamental problem in computational social choice and economic game theory. It has been intensively studied on various kinds of items (\textit{divisible} and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Harmender Gahlawat , Meirav Zehavi

We consider the house allocation problem, where $m$ houses are to be assigned to $n$ agents so that each agent gets exactly one house. We present a polynomial-time algorithm that determines whether an envy-free assignment exists, and if so,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Jiarui Gan , Warut Suksompong , Alexandros A. Voudouris

Fair allocation of indivisible goods is a well-explored problem. Traditionally, research focused on individual fairness - are individual agents satisfied with their allotted share? - and group fairness - are groups of agents treated fairly?…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Jonathan Scarlett , Nicholas Teh , Yair Zick

Fair division is the problem of allocating a set of items among agents in a fair manner. One of the most sought-after fairness notions is envy-freeness (EF), requiring that no agent envies another's allocation. When items are indivisible,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Jinghan A Zeng , Ruta Mehta

We study the computational complexity of fair division of indivisible items in an enriched model: there is an underlying graph on the set of items. And we have to allocate the items (i.e., the vertices of the graph) to a set of agents in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Jayakrishnan Madathil