Title
Approximate Maximin Share Allocations in Matroids.
Abstract
The maximin share guarantee is, in the context of allocating indivisible goods to a set of agents, a recent fairness criterion. A solution achieving a constant approximation of this guarantee always exists and can be computed in polynomial time. We extend the problem to the case where the goods collectively received by the agents satisfy a matroidal constraint. Polynomial approximation algorithms for this generalization are provided: a 1/2-approximation for any number of agents, a (1 - epsilon)-approximation for two agents, and a (8/9 - epsilon)-approximation for three agents. Apart from the extension to matroids, the (8/9 - epsilon)-approximation for three agents improves on a (7/8 - epsilon)-approximation by Amanatidis et al. (ICALP 2015).
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-57586-5_26
ALGORITHMS AND COMPLEXITY (CIAC 2017)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Approximation algorithms,Fair division,Matroids
Matroid,Discrete mathematics,Approximation algorithm,Combinatorics,Minimax,Fair division,Polynomial,Computer science,Time complexity
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10236
0302-9743
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Laurent Gourvès124130.97
Jérôme Monnot251255.74