Fair Division of Indivisible Goods

Chapters 4 through 7 focused on collective decision-making problems (in particular, voting) with the default assumption that all agents are concerned with the outcome as a whole, and therefore, all agents are expected to have, and to express, preferences over all alternatives. We now consider another subfield of collective decision-making where every agent will be only concerned by a part of the outcome: There are a set of resources, or goods, to be allocated to the agents, each agent is only concerned with the share she will get, and as a consequence, will only express her preferences over sets of resources (and not over all allocations).