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ERIC Number: EJ959227
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Jan
Pages: 8
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0746-8342
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Two-Person Pie-Cutting: The Fairest Cuts
Barbanel, Julius B.; Brams, Steven J.
College Mathematics Journal, v42 n1 p25-32 Jan 2011
Barbanel, Brams, and Stromquist (in 2009) asked whether there exists a two-person moving-knife procedure that yields an envy-free, undominated, and equitable division of a pie. We present two procedures: One yields an envy-free, almost undominated, and almost equitable allocation, whereas the second yields an allocation with the two "almost" removed. The latter, however, requires broadening the definition of a "procedure," which raises philosophical, as opposed to mathematical, issues. An analogous approach for cakes fails because of problems in eliciting truthful preferences.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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