Allocation of Indivisible Items with a Common Preference Graph: Minimizing Total Dissatisfaction
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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 | Allocating indivisible items among a set of agents is a frequently studied discrete optimization problem. In the setting considered in this work, the agents' preferences over the items are assumed to be identical. We consider a very recent measure for the overall quality of an allocation which does not rely on numerical valuations of the items. Instead, it captures the agents' opinion by a directed acyclic preference graph with vertices representing items. An arc $(a,b)$ in such a graph means that the agents prefer item $a$ over item $b$. For a given allocation of items the dissatisfaction of an agent is defined as the number of items which the agent does not receive and for which no more preferred item is given to the agent. Our goal is to find an efficient allocation of the items to the agents such that the total dissatisfaction over all agents is minimized.
We explore the dichotomy between NP-hard and polynomially solvable instances, depending on properties of the underlying preference graph. While the problem is NP-hard already for three agents even on very restricted graph classes, it is polynomially solvable for two agents on general preference graphs. For an arbitrary number of agents, we derive polynomial-time algorithms for relevant restrictions of the underlying undirected graph. These are trees and, among the graphs of treewidth two, series-parallel graphs and cactus graphs. |
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| spellingShingle | Allocation of Indivisible Items with a Common Preference Graph: Minimizing Total Dissatisfaction Chiarelli, Nina Dallard, Clément Darmann, Andreas Lendl, Stefan Milanič, Martin Muršič, Peter Pferschy, Ulrich Computer Science and Game Theory Discrete Mathematics 91B32, 90C27, 68Q25, 05C85, 05C20, 05C05, 90B10, 06A06 Allocating indivisible items among a set of agents is a frequently studied discrete optimization problem. In the setting considered in this work, the agents' preferences over the items are assumed to be identical. We consider a very recent measure for the overall quality of an allocation which does not rely on numerical valuations of the items. Instead, it captures the agents' opinion by a directed acyclic preference graph with vertices representing items. An arc $(a,b)$ in such a graph means that the agents prefer item $a$ over item $b$. For a given allocation of items the dissatisfaction of an agent is defined as the number of items which the agent does not receive and for which no more preferred item is given to the agent. Our goal is to find an efficient allocation of the items to the agents such that the total dissatisfaction over all agents is minimized. We explore the dichotomy between NP-hard and polynomially solvable instances, depending on properties of the underlying preference graph. While the problem is NP-hard already for three agents even on very restricted graph classes, it is polynomially solvable for two agents on general preference graphs. For an arbitrary number of agents, we derive polynomial-time algorithms for relevant restrictions of the underlying undirected graph. These are trees and, among the graphs of treewidth two, series-parallel graphs and cactus graphs. |
| title | Allocation of Indivisible Items with a Common Preference Graph: Minimizing Total Dissatisfaction |
| topic | Computer Science and Game Theory Discrete Mathematics 91B32, 90C27, 68Q25, 05C85, 05C20, 05C05, 90B10, 06A06 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00921 |