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Swap Stability in Schelling Games on Graphs

Computer Science and Game Theory 2019-11-25 v3

Abstract

We study a recently introduced class of strategic games that is motivated by and generalizes Schelling's well-known residential segregation model. These games are played on undirected graphs, with the set of agents partitioned into multiple types; each agent either occupies a node of the graph and never moves away or aims to maximize the fraction of her neighbors who are of her own type. We consider a variant of this model that we call swap Schelling games, where the number of agents is equal to the number of nodes of the graph, and agents may {\em swap} positions with other agents to increase their utility. We study the existence, computational complexity and quality of equilibrium assignments in these games, both from a social welfare perspective and from a diversity perspective.

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@article{arxiv.1909.02421,
  title  = {Swap Stability in Schelling Games on Graphs},
  author = {Aishwarya Agarwal and Edith Elkind and Jiarui Gan and Alexandros A. Voudouris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02421},
  year   = {2019}
}

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