---
title: "Online Fair Division: Analysing a Food Bank Problem"
authors:
  - "Martin Aleksandrov"
  - "Haris Aziz"
  - "Serge Gaspers"
  - "Toby Walsh"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/360"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/0360.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2015
pages: "2540-2545"
track: "Special Track on Computational Sustainability"
keywords:
---

# Online Fair Division: Analysing a Food Bank Problem

Martin Aleksandrov, Haris Aziz, Serge Gaspers, Toby Walsh

*Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 2540-2545.

## Abstract

We study an online model of fair division designed to capture features of a real world charity problem. We consider two simple mechanisms for this model in which agents simply declare what items they like. We analyse axiomatic properties of these mechanisms such as strategy-proofness and envy freeness. Finally, we perform a competitive analysis and compute the price of anarchy.