5 papers
Online Proportional Apportionment
Javier Cembrano, Jose Correa, Svenja M. Griesbach +1
Traditionally, the problem of apportioning the seats of a legislative body has been viewed as a one-shot process with no dynamic considerations. While this approach is reasonable f…
Near-feasible Fair Allocations in Two-sided Markets
Javier Cembrano, Andrés Moraga, Victor Verdugo
We study resource allocation in two-sided markets from a fundamental perspective and introduce a general modeling and algorithmic framework to effectively incorporate the complex a…
Posted Pricing and Competition in Large Markets
José Correa, Vasilis Livanos, Dana Pizarro +1
Posted price mechanisms are prevalent in allocating goods within online marketplaces due to their simplicity and practical efficiency. We explore a fundamental scenario where buyer…
New Combinatorial Insights for Monotone Apportionment
Javier Cembrano, José Correa, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin +2
The apportionment problem constitutes a fundamental problem in democratic societies: How to distribute a fixed number of seats among a set of states in proportion to the states' po…
Proportionality in Multiple Dimensions to Design Electoral Systems
Javier Cembrano, José Correa, Gonzalo DÃaz +1
How to elect the representatives in legislative bodies is a question that every modern democracy has to answer. This design task has to consider various elements so as to fulfill t…