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Agent-Constrained Truthful Facility Location Games

Computer Science and Game Theory 2025-02-18 v4

Abstract

We consider a truthful facility location problem in which there is a set of agents with private locations on the line of real numbers, and the goal is to place a number of facilities at different locations chosen from the set of those reported by the agents. Given a feasible solution, each agent suffers an individual cost that is either its total distance to all facilities (sum-variant) or its distance to the farthest facility (max-variant). For both variants, we show tight bounds on the approximation ratio of strategyproof mechanisms in terms of the social cost, the total individual cost of the agents.

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@article{arxiv.2405.05197,
  title  = {Agent-Constrained Truthful Facility Location Games},
  author = {Argyrios Deligkas and Mohammad Lotfi and Alexandros A. Voudouris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05197},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

SAGT 2024, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 2025

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