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We study fair resource allocation under a connectedness constraint wherein a set of indivisible items are arranged on a path and only connected subsets of items may be allocated to the agents. An allocation is deemed fair if it satisfies…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Neeldhara Misra , Chinmay Sonar , P. R. Vaidyanathan , Rohit Vaish

The online bipartite matching problem, extensively studied in the literature, deals with the allocation of online arriving vertices (items) to a predetermined set of offline vertices (agents). However, little attention has been given to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Shayan Chashm Jahan , Mohammad Sharifi , Suho Shin , Max Springer

Online bipartite matching, where agents are known in advance but items arrive sequentially and must be irrevocably assigned, is fundamental to problems ranging from ride-sharing to online advertising. When agents belong to classes such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Sander Borst , Max Springer

Online decision-makers often obtain predictions on future variables, such as arrivals, demands, inventories, and so on. These predictions can be generated from simple forecasting algorithms for univariate time-series, all the way to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Lin An , Andrew A. Li , Benjamin Moseley , Gabriel Visotsky

LoRa networks are pivotally enabling Long Range connectivity to low-cost and power-constrained user equipments (UEs) in a wide area, whereas a critical issue is to effectively allocate wireless resources to support potentially massive UEs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Jiangbin Lyu , Dan Yu , Liqun Fu

In the classical version of online bipartite matching, there is a given set of offline vertices (aka agents) and another set of vertices (aka items) that arrive online. When each item arrives, its incident edges -- the agents who like the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Hadi Hosseini , Zhiyi Huang , Ayumi Igarashi , Nisarg Shah

We study a multi-objective model on the allocation of reusable resources under model uncertainty. Heterogeneous customers arrive sequentially according to a latent stochastic process, request for certain amounts of resources, and occupy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Xilin Zhang , Wang Chi Cheung

Online platforms increasingly rely on sequential decision-making algorithms to allocate resources, match users, or control exposure, while facing growing pressure to ensure fairness over time. We study a general online decision-making…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Rui Chen , Oktay Gunluk , Andrea Lodi , Guanyi Wang

Algorithms are increasingly used to aid with high-stakes decision making. Yet, their predictive ability frequently exhibits systematic variation across population subgroups. To assess the trade-off between fairness and accuracy using finite…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-06-17 Yiqi Liu , Francesca Molinari

Many allocation problems in multiagent systems rely on agents specifying cardinal preferences. However, allocation mechanisms can be sensitive to small perturbations in cardinal preferences, thus causing agents who make ``small" or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Vijay Menon , Kate Larson

In this paper we formulate the fixed budget resource allocation game to understand the performance of a distributed market-based resource allocation system. Multiple users decide how to distribute their budget (bids) among multiple machines…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michal Feldman , Kevin Lai , Li Zhang

We consider the problem of allocating heterogeneous and indivisible goods among strategic agents, with preferences over subsets of goods, when there is no medium of exchange. This model captures the well studied problem of fair allocation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Moshe Babaioff , Noam Manaker Morag

It is often beneficial for agents to pool their resources in order to better accommodate fluctuations in individual demand. Many multi-round resource allocation mechanisms operate in an online manner: in each round, the agents specify their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Fu Li , C. Gregory Plaxton , Vaibhav B. Sinha

We study the allocative challenges that governmental and nonprofit organizations face when tasked with equitable and efficient rationing of a social good among agents whose needs (demands) realize sequentially and are possibly correlated.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Vahideh Manshadi , Rad Niazadeh , Scott Rodilitz

In many applications such as rationing medical care and supplies, university admissions, and the assignment of public housing, the decision of who receives an allocation can be justified by various normative criteria. Such settings have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Siddhartha Banerjee , Matthew Eichhorn , David Kempe

Fair allocation has been studied intensively in both economics and computer science, and fair sharing of resources has aroused renewed interest with the advent of virtualization and cloud computing. Prior work has typically focused on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-15 Danny Dolev , Dror G. Feitelson , Joseph Y. Halpern , Raz Kupferman , Nati Linial

We study critical systems that allocate scarce resources to satisfy basic needs, such as homeless services that provide housing. These systems often support communities disproportionately affected by systemic racial, gender, or other…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Nathanael Jo , Bill Tang , Kathryn Dullerud , Sina Aghaei , Eric Rice , Phebe Vayanos

Online resource allocation problems are central challenges in economics and computer science, modeling situations in which $n$ items arriving one at a time must each be immediately allocated among $m$ agents. In such problems, our objective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kalen Patton

We study the problem of fair division of indivisible chores among $n$ agents in an online setting, where items arrive sequentially and must be allocated irrevocably upon arrival. The goal is to produce an $\alpha$-MMS allocation at the end.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao , Wenqian Wang , Yuhao Zhang

We consider the problem of fairly allocating indivisible public goods. We model the public goods as elements with feasibility constraints on what subsets of elements can be chosen, and assume that agents have additive utilities across…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Brandon Fain , Kamesh Munagala , Nisarg Shah