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Auctions in which agents' payoffs are random variables have received increased attention in recent years. In particular, recent work in algorithmic mechanism design has produced mechanisms employing internal randomization, partly in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-15 Shaddin Dughmi , Yuval Peres

We study the problem of allocating divisible resources among $n$ agents, hopefully in a fair and efficient manner. With the presence of strategic agents, additional incentive guarantees are also necessary, and the problem of designing fair…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Xiaohui Bei , Biaoshuai Tao , Jiajun Wu , Mingwei Yang

Priority-based allocation of individuals to positions are pervasive, and elimination of justified envy is often, an absolute requirement. This leaves serial dictatorship (SD) as the only rule that avoids justified envy under standard direct…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-22 Inácio Bó , Gian Caspari , Manshu Khanna

How does one allocate a collection of resources to a set of strategic agents in a fair and efficient manner without using money? For in many scenarios it is not feasible to use money to compensate agents for otherwise unsatisfactory…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-10 Richard Cole , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Gagan Goel

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods among $n$ strategic agents. It is well-known that truthfulness is incompatible with any meaningful fairness notions. We bypass the strong negative result by considering the concept…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Biaoshuai Tao , Mingwei Yang

We study a fair division problem with indivisible items, namely the computation of maximin share allocations. Given a set of $n$ players, the maximin share of a single player is the best she can guarantee to herself, if she would partition…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Georgios Amanatidis , Georgios Birmpas , Evangelos Markakis

We study truthful mechanisms for approximating the Maximin-Share (MMS) allocation of agents with additive valuations for indivisible goods. Algorithmically, constant factor approximations exist for the problem for any number of agents. When…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ilan Reuven Cohen , Alon Eden , Talya Eden , Arsen Vasilyan

We study fair allocation of indivisible goods among strategic agents with additive valuations. Motivated by impossibility results for deterministic truthful mechanisms, we focus on randomized mechanisms that are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Moshe Babaioff , Uriel Feige , Noam Manaker Morag

We study the problem of approximate social welfare maximization (without money) in one-sided matching problems when agents have unrestricted cardinal preferences over a finite set of items. Random priority is a very well-known…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-07 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Søren Kristoffer Stiil Frederiksen , Jie Zhang

We consider a combinatorial auction model where preferences of agents over bundles of objects and payments need not be quasilinear. However, we restrict the preferences of agents to be dichotomous. An agent with dichotomous preference…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-02-22 Komal Malik , Debasis Mishra

We introduce a general approach based on \emph{selective verification} and obtain approximate mechanisms without money for maximizing the social welfare in the general domain of utilitarian voting. Having a good allocation in mind, a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Dimitris Fotakis , Christos Tzamos , Emmanouil Zampetakis

We study the fair division of divisible bad resources with strategic agents who can manipulate their private information to get a better allocation. Within certain constraints, we are particularly interested in whether truthful envy-free…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Mohammad Azharuddin Sanpui

We consider the impact of fairness requirements on the social efficiency of truthful mechanisms for trade, focusing on Bayesian bilateral-trade settings. Unlike the full information case in which all gains-from-trade can be realized and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Moshe Babaioff , Yiding Feng , Noam Manaker Morag

We consider the fundamental problem of allocating a set of indivisible goods among strategic agents with additive valuation functions. It is well known that, in the absence of monetary transfers, Pareto efficient and truthful rules are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Alexandros Psomas , Paritosh Verma

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

We study the question of dividing a collection of indivisible goods amongst a set of agents. The main objective of research in the area is to achieve one of two goals: fairness or efficiency. On the fairness side, envy-freeness is the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Vishnu V. Narayan , Mashbat Suzuki , Adrian Vetta

We study the bilateral trade problem where a seller owns a single indivisible item, and a potential buyer seeks to purchase it. Previous mechanisms for this problem only considered the case where the values of the buyer and the seller are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Shahar Dobzinski , Ariel Shaulker

We investigate the tradeoffs between fairness and efficiency when allocating indivisible items over time. Suppose T items arrive over time and must be allocated upon arrival, immediately and irrevocably, to one of n agents. Agent i assigns…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-18 David Zeng , Alexandros Psomas

We introduce the study of designing allocation mechanisms for fairly allocating indivisible goods in settings with interdependent valuation functions. In our setting, there is a set of goods that needs to be allocated to a set of agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Georgios Birmpas , Tomer Ezra , Stefano Leonardi , Matteo Russo

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to groups of agents. Agents in the same group share the same set of goods even though they may have different preferences. Previous work has focused on unanimous fairness, in which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Erel Segal-Halevi , Warut Suksompong