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Robust Value Maximization in Challenge the Champ Tournaments with Probabilistic Outcomes
Umang Bhaskar, Juhi Chaudhary, Sushmita Gupta +2
Challenge the Champ is a simple tournament format, where an ordering of the players -- called a seeding -- is decided. The first player in this order is the initial champ, and face…
When agents choose bundles autonomously: guarantees beyond discrepancy
Sushmita Gupta, Pallavi Jain, Sanjay Seetharaman +1
We consider the fair division of indivisible items among agents with additive non-negative normalized valuations, with the goal of obtaining high value guarantees, that is, clo…
More Efforts Towards Fixed-Parameter Approximability of Multiwinner Rules
Sushmita Gupta, Pallavi Jain, Souvik Saha +2
Multiwinner Elections have emerged as a prominent area of research with numerous practical applications. We contribute to this area by designing parameterized approximation algorit…
Conflict and Fairness in Resource Allocation
Susobhan Bandopadhyay, Aritra Banik, Sushmita Gupta +4
In the standard model of fair allocation of resources to agents, every agent has some utility for every resource, and the goal is to assign resources to agents so that the agents'…