Fair division
by Steven J. Brams · first published 1996
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Cutting a cake, dividing up the property in an estate, determining the borders in an international dispute - such problems of fair division are ubiquitous. Fair division treats all these problems and many more through a rigorous analysis of a variety of procedures for allocating goods (or "bads" like chores), or deciding who wins on what issues, when there are disputes. Starting with an analysis of the well-known cake-cutting procedure, "I cut, you choose," the authors show how it has been adapted in a number of fields and then analyze fair-division procedures applicable to situations in whi
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Found this fairly annoying - only because I went through this exercise recently, and now all the research i did has been made redundant. I bought this book to help me out: http://www.amazon.com/Fair-Division-Cake-Cutting-Dispute-Res... It's a great book, though it didn't include exactly what i was looking for regarding this subject. I emailed one of the authors and he kindly pointed me in the direction of…
on “Divide Your Rent Fairly” ↗Oh, fun! This is sometimes called an envy free division. A nice book on this topic is Fair Division: From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution www.amazon.com/Fair-Division-Cake-Cutting-Dispute-Resolution/dp/0521556449 Stable matchings are a related problem (sometimes called the stable marriage problem),…
on “How To Split A Pizza” ↗