Minimizing Maximum Dissatisfaction in the Allocation of Indivisible Items under a Common Preference Graph
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| author | Chiarelli, Nina Dallard, Clément Darmann, Andreas Lendl, Stefan Milanič, Martin Muršič, Peter Pferschy, Ulrich |
| author_facet | Chiarelli, Nina Dallard, Clément Darmann, Andreas Lendl, Stefan Milanič, Martin Muršič, Peter Pferschy, Ulrich |
| contents | We consider the task of allocating indivisible items to agents, when the agents' preferences over the items are identical. The preferences are captured by means of a directed acyclic graph, with vertices representing items and an edge $(a,b)$, meaning that each of the agents prefers item $a$ over item $b$. The dissatisfaction of an agent is measured by the number of items that the agent does not receive and for which it also does not receive any more preferred item. The aim is to allocate the items to the agents in a fair way, i.e., to minimize the maximum dissatisfaction among the agents. We study the status of computational complexity of that problem and establish the following dichotomy: the problem is NP-hard for the case of at least three agents, even on fairly restricted graphs, but polynomially solvable for two agents. We also provide several polynomial-time results with respect to different underlying graph structures, such as graphs of width at most two and tree-like structures such as stars and matchings. These findings are complemented with fixed parameter tractability results related to path modules and independent set modules. Techniques employed in the paper include bottleneck assignment problem, greedy algorithm, dynamic programming, maximum network flow, and integer linear programming. |
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| spellingShingle | Minimizing Maximum Dissatisfaction in the Allocation of Indivisible Items under a Common Preference Graph Chiarelli, Nina Dallard, Clément Darmann, Andreas Lendl, Stefan Milanič, Martin Muršič, Peter Pferschy, Ulrich Discrete Mathematics 91B32, 90C27, 90C47, 68Q25, 05C85, 05C20, 68Q27, 90B10, 06A06 We consider the task of allocating indivisible items to agents, when the agents' preferences over the items are identical. The preferences are captured by means of a directed acyclic graph, with vertices representing items and an edge $(a,b)$, meaning that each of the agents prefers item $a$ over item $b$. The dissatisfaction of an agent is measured by the number of items that the agent does not receive and for which it also does not receive any more preferred item. The aim is to allocate the items to the agents in a fair way, i.e., to minimize the maximum dissatisfaction among the agents. We study the status of computational complexity of that problem and establish the following dichotomy: the problem is NP-hard for the case of at least three agents, even on fairly restricted graphs, but polynomially solvable for two agents. We also provide several polynomial-time results with respect to different underlying graph structures, such as graphs of width at most two and tree-like structures such as stars and matchings. These findings are complemented with fixed parameter tractability results related to path modules and independent set modules. Techniques employed in the paper include bottleneck assignment problem, greedy algorithm, dynamic programming, maximum network flow, and integer linear programming. |
| title | Minimizing Maximum Dissatisfaction in the Allocation of Indivisible Items under a Common Preference Graph |
| topic | Discrete Mathematics 91B32, 90C27, 90C47, 68Q25, 05C85, 05C20, 68Q27, 90B10, 06A06 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01804 |