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In this paper, we investigate the $k$-Facility Location Problem ($k$-FLP) within the Bayesian Mechanism Design framework, in which agents' preferences are samples of a probability distributed on a line. Our primary contribution is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Gennaro Auricchio , Jie Zhang

We consider strategy proof mechanisms for facility location which maximize equitability between agents. As is common in the literature, we measure equitability with the Gini index. We first prove a simple but fundamental impossibility…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Toby Walsh

In many societal resource allocation domains, machine learning methods are increasingly used to either score or rank agents in order to decide which ones should receive either resources (e.g., homeless services) or scrutiny (e.g., child…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Andrew Estornell , Sanmay Das , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

We consider the classic Facility Location problem on planar graphs (non-uniform, uncapacitated). Given an edge-weighted planar graph $G$, a set of clients $C\subseteq V(G)$, a set of facilities $F\subseteq V(G)$, and opening costs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

We consider non-cooperative facility location games where both facilities and clients act strategically and heavily influence each other. This contrasts established game-theoretic facility location models with non-strategic clients that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Simon Krogmann , Pascal Lenzner , Louise Molitor , Alexander Skopalik

We study a non-cooperative two-sided facility location game in which facilities and clients behave strategically. This is in contrast to many other facility location games in which clients simply visit their closest facility. Facility…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Simon Krogmann , Pascal Lenzner , Alexander Skopalik

We introduce a problem that is a common generalization of the uncapacitated facility location and minimum latency (ML) problems, where facilities need to be opened to serve clients and also need to be sequentially activated before they can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-14 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Chaitanya Swamy

Understanding agent behaviour in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is an important problem in domains such as autonomous driving, disaster response, and sports analytics. Existing MAS problems typically use uniform timesteps with observations for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Gregory Everett , Ryan J. Beal , Tim Matthews , Joseph Early , Timothy J. Norman , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn

We study the extended version of the non-uniform, capacitated facility location problem with multiple fulfilment channels between the facilities and clients, each with their own channel capacities and service cost. Though the problem has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Etika Agarwal , Karthik S. Gurumoorthy , Ankit Ajit Jain , Shantala Manchenahally

Classical clustering problems such as \emph{Facility Location} and \emph{$k$-Median} aim to efficiently serve a set of clients from a subset of facilities -- minimizing the total cost of facility openings and client assignments in Facility…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Rajni Dabas , Samir Khuller , Emilie Rivkin

Given facilities with capacities and clients with penalties and demands, the transportation problem with market choice consists in finding the minimum-cost way to partition the clients into unserved clients, paying the penalties, and into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Karen Aardal , Pierre Le Bodic

A number of prototypical optimization problems in multi-agent systems (e.g., task allocation and network load-sharing) exhibit a highly local structure: that is, each agent's decision variables are only directly coupled to few other agent's…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Robin Brown , Federico Rossi , Kiril Solovey , Michael T. Wolf , Marco Pavone

In this paper the capacitated hub location problem is formulated by a minimax regret model, which takes into account uncertain setup cost and demand. We focus on hub location with multiple allocations as a strategic problem requiring one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Iman Kazemian , Samin Aref

We study truthful mechanisms for matching and related problems in a partial information setting, where the agents' true utilities are hidden, and the algorithm only has access to ordinal preference information. Our model is motivated by the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Elliot Anshelevich , Shreyas Sekar

We attack the 4-level facility location problem (4L-FLP), a critical component in supply chains. Foundational tasks here involve selecting markets, plants, warehouses, and distribution centers to maximize profits while considering related…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Bahram Alidaee , Haibo Wang

Given the probability measure $\nu$ over the given region $\Omega\subset \R^n$, we consider the optimal location of a set $\Sigma$ composed by $n$ points $\Om$ in order to minimize the average distance $\Sigma\mapsto \int_\Om…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-16 A. Brancolini , G. Buttazzo , F. Santambrogio , E. Stepanov

Consider an online facility assignment problem where a set of facilities $F = \{ f_1, f_2, f_3, \cdots, f_{|F|} \}$ of equal capacity $l$ is situated on a metric space and customers arrive one by one in an online manner on that space. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Saad Al Muttakee , Abu Reyan Ahmed , Md. Saidur Rahman

This article discusses the algorithms for finding the optimal solution of problems related to the location of temporary storage of goods, warehouses, factories for processing raw materials and shops selling the final product in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Oleg Malafeyev , Schenikova Snezhana

This paper presents fast, distributed, $O(1)$-approximation algorithms for metric facility location problems with outliers in the Congested Clique model, Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model, and in the $k$-machine model. The paper…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Tanmay Inamdar , Shreyas Pai , Sriram V. Pemmaraju

We study Nash equilibria in strategic facility location games where clients are located in an arbitrary metric space. Specifically, there are $n$ clients, and the goal is to choose a facility from a set of given locations, so that the total…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yue Gruszecki , Elliot Anshelevich