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We study the computational complexity of finding fair allocations of indivisible goods in the setting where a social network on the agents is given. Notions of fairness in this context are "localized", that is, agents are only concerned…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Neeldhara Misra , Debanuj Nayak

We study the fundamental problem of fairly dividing a set of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. Here, envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) is a central fairness notion and resolving its existence is regarded as one of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hannaneh Akrami , Ryoga Mahara , Kurt Mehlhorn , Nidhi Rathi

We study an online fair division problem where a fixed number of goods arrive sequentially and must be allocated to a given set of agents. Once a good arrives, its true value for each agent is revealed, and it has to be immediately and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Themistoklis Melissourgos , Nicos Protopapas

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

In the recently introduced model of fair partitioning of friends, there is a set of agents located on the vertices of an underlying graph that indicates the friendships between the agents. The task is to partition the graph into $k$…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Stavros D. Ioannidis , Dušan Knop , Šimon Schierreich

We study a fair allocation problem of indivisible items under additive externalities in which each agent also receives values from items that are assigned to other agents. We propose several new fairness concepts. We extend the well-studied…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Haris Aziz , Warut Suksompong , Zhaohong Sun , Toby Walsh

The fair allocation of indivisible resources is a fundamental problem. Existing research has developed various allocation mechanisms or algorithms to satisfy different fairness notions. For example, round robin (RR) was proposed to meet the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ryota Maruo , Koh Takeuchi , Hisashi Kashima

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 initiate the study of computing envy-free allocations of indivisible items in the extension setting, i.e., when some part of the allocation is fixed and the task is to allocate the remaining items. Given the known NP-hardness of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Tiger-Lily Goldsmith , Stavros D. Ioannidis

Finding an envy-free allocation of indivisible resources to agents is a central task in many multiagent systems. Often, non-trivial envy-free allocations do not exist, and, when they do, finding them can be computationally hard. Classical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Robert Bredereck , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Rolf Niedermeier

We explore the fair distribution of a set of $m$ indivisible chores among $n$ agents, where each agent's costs are evaluated using a monotone cost function. Our focus lies on two fairness criteria: envy-freeness up to any item (EFX) and a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Mahyar Afshinmehr , Matin Ansaripour , Alireza Danaei , Kurt Mehlhorn

We consider a fair division model in which agents have general valuations for bundles of indivisible items. We propose two new axiomatic properties for allocations in this model: EF1+- and EFX+-. We compare these with the existing EF1 and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Martin Aleksandrov

Envy-freeness is a standard benchmark of fairness in resource allocation. Since it cannot always be satisfied when the resource consists of indivisible items even when there are two agents, the relaxations envy-freeness up to one item (EF1)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Warut Suksompong

We study fair division of divisible goods under generalized assignment constraints. Here, each good has an agent-specific value and size, and every agent has a budget constraint that limits the total size of the goods she can receive. Since…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Siddharth Barman , Ioannis Caragiannis , Sudarshan Shyam

Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) is a popular and important fairness property in the fair allocation of indivisible goods, of which its existence in general is still an open question. In this work, we investigate the problem of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Nicholas Teh

House allocation is an extremely well-studied problem in the field of fair allocation, where the goal is to assign $n$ houses to $n$ agents while satisfying certain fairness criterion, e.g., envy-freeness. To model social interactions, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Tanmay Inamdar , Pallavi Jain , Pranjal Pandey

Orienting the edges of an undirected graph such that the resulting digraph satisfies some given constraints is a classical problem in graph theory, with multiple algorithmic applications. In particular, an $st$-orientation orients each edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Carla Binucci , Giuseppe Liotta , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Giacomo Ortali , Tommaso Piselli

A prototypical graph problem is centered around a graph-theoretic property for a set of vertices and a solution to it is a set of vertices for which the desired property holds. The task is to decide whether, in the given graph, there exists…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Dušan Knop , Tomáš Masařík , Tomáš Toufar

We study fair division of indivisible items under a variable input setting, where the set of agents or items may change over time. Starting from an arbitrary allocation, the goal is to restore envy-freeness up to one item (EF1) through item…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Harish Chandramouleeswaran , Prajakta Nimbhorkar , Nidhi Rathi

We study the problem of finding an envy-free allocation of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. We focus on the fairness notion of envy-freeness up to any good (EFX). A central open question in fair division is whether…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Vishwa Prakash HV , Pratik Ghosal , Prajakta Nimbhorkar , Nithin Varma