---
title: "Reaching Envy-Free States in Distributed Negotiation Settings"
authors:
  - "Yann Chevaleyre"
  - "Ulrich Endriss"
  - "Sylvia Estivie"
  - "Nicolas Maudet"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/200"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/0200.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2007
pages: "1239-1243"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# Reaching Envy-Free States in Distributed Negotiation Settings

Yann Chevaleyre, Ulrich Endriss, Sylvia Estivie, Nicolas Maudet

*Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1239-1243.

## Abstract

Mechanisms for dividing a set of goods amongst a number of autonomous agents need to balance efficiency and fairness requirements. A common interpretation of fairness is envy-freeness, while efficiency is usually understood as yielding maximal overall utility. We show how to set up a distributed negotiation framework that will allow a group of agents to reach an allocation of goods that is both efficient and envy-free.