The price of fairness for a small number of indivisible items

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-28697-6_47zbMATH Open1341.91097arXiv1406.5722OpenAlexW2294054303MaRDI QIDQ2806954FDOQ2806954

Authors: Sascha Kurz 

Publication date: 19 May 2016

Published in: Operations Research Proceedings (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Incorporating fairness criteria in optimization problems comes at a certain cost, which is measured by the so-called price of fairness. Here we consider the allocation of indivisible goods. For envy-freeness as fairness criterion it is known from literature that the price of fairness can increase linearly in terms of the number of agents. For the constructive lower bound a quadratic number of items was used. In practice this might be inadequately large. So we introduce the price of fairness in terms of both the number of agents and items, i.e., key parameters which generally may be considered as common and available knowledge. It turned out that the price of fairness increases sublinear if the number of items is not too much larger than the number of agents. For the special case of coincide of both counts exact asymptotics could be determined. Additionally an efficient integer programming formulation is given.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5722

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Resource and cost allocation (including fair division, apportionment, etc.) (91B32)

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