Fairness and efficiency in resource allocation

• Main Author: Li, Zihao
• Other Authors: Yan Zhenzhen
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2025
• Subjects: Business and Management; Computer and Information Science; Mathematical Sciences; Resource allocation; Efficiency; Fairness; Revenue management; Fair division
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182150
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Fairness and efficiency are two fundamental topics in resource allocation. In resource allocation problems, we need to allocate a set of items to a set of agents. From an efficiency perspective, our goal is to maximize the total reward of the allocation. From the perspective of fairness, we want to...