2018 IJCAI IJCAI 2018

On the Complexity of Chore Division

Abstract

We study the proportional chore division problem where a protocol wants to divide an undesirable object, called chore, among n different players. This problem is the dual variant of the cake cutting problem in which we want to allocate a desirable object. In this paper, we show that chore division and cake cutting problems are closely related to each other and provide a tight lower bound for proportional chore division.

🧭 Keyword Pioneer — proportional division
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — resource allocation
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