Cake Cutting Algorithms

Be Fair If You Can
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-1-56881-076-8
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 177 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

The challenge of dividing an asset fairly, from cakes to more important properties, is of great practical importance in many situations. Since the famous Polish school of mathematicians (Steinhaus, Banach, and Knaster) introduced and described algorithms for the fair division problem in the 1940s, the concept has been widely popularized.

This book gathers into one readable and inclusive source a comprehensive discussion of the state of the art in cake-cutting problems for both the novice and the professional. It offers a complete treatment of all cake-cutting algorithms under all the considered definitions of "fair" and presents them in a coherent, reader-friendly manner. Robertson and Webb have brought this elegant problem to life for both the bright high school student and the professional researcher.

Zielgruppe

General and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robertson, Jack

Webb, William

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Grundlagen der Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Logik, formale Sprachen, Automaten
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Algebra Zahlentheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Algebra Elementare Algebra
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Computeranwendungen in der Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Operations Research Graphentheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1 Fairly Dividing a Cake 2 Pieces or Crumbs - How Many Cuts Are Needed? 3 Unequal Shares 4 The Serendipity of Disagreement 5 Some Variations on the Theme of ''Fair'' Division 6 Some Combinatorial Observations 7 Interlude: An Inventory of Results 8 Impossibility Theorems 9 Attempting Fair Division with a Limited Number of Cuts 10 Exact and Envy-Free Algorithms 11 A Return to Division for Unequal Shares

Über Autor(innen)

Jack Robertson, William Webb