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We study deterministic mechanisms for the two-facility location problem. Given the reported locations of n agents on the real line, such a mechanism specifies where to build the two facilities. The single-facility variant of this problem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Elijah Journey Fullerton , Zeyuan Hu , C. Gregory Plaxton

We study mechanisms for the facility location problem augmented with predictions of the optimal facility location. We demonstrate that an egalitarian viewpoint which considers both the maximum distance of any agent from the facility and the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Toby Walsh

We study a distributed facility location problem in which a set of agents, each with a private position on the real line, is partitioned into a collection of fixed, disjoint groups. The goal is to open $k$ facilities at locations chosen…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Argyrios Deligkas , Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Alexandros A. Voudouris

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 take the classic facility location problem and consider a variation, in which each agent's individual cost function is equal to their distance from the facility multiplied by a scaling factor which is determined by the facility…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yu He , Alexander Lam , Minming Li

In a facility game one or more facilities are placed in a metric space to serve a set of selfish agents whose addresses are their private information. In a classical facility game, each agent wants to be as close to a facility as possible,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Yukun Cheng , Sanming Zhou

Algorithms with predictions have attracted much attention in the last years across various domains, including variants of facility location, as a way to surpass traditional worst-case analyses. We study the $k$-facility location mechanism…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Zohar Barak , Anupam Gupta , Inbal Talgam-Cohen

We consider the problem of locating a facility on a network, represented by a graph. A set of strategic agents have different ideal locations for the facility; the cost of an agent is the distance between its ideal location and the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-14 Noga Alon , Michal Feldman , Ariel D. Procaccia , Moshe Tennenholtz

We study a constrained distributed heterogeneous two-facility location problem, where a set of agents with private locations on the real line are divided into disjoint groups. The constraint means that the facilities can only be built in a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xinru Xu , Wenjing Liu , Qizhi Fang

We consider a problem where agents have private positions on a line, and public approval preferences over two facilities, and their cost is the maximum distance from their approved facilities. The goal is to decide the facility locations to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mohammad Lotfi , Alexandros A. Voudouris

Proportionality is an attractive fairness concept that has been applied to a range of problems including the facility location problem, a classic problem in social choice. In our work, we propose a concept called Strong Proportionality,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Haris Aziz , Alexander Lam , Mashbat Suzuki , Toby Walsh

We study facility location problems where agents control multiple locations and when reporting their locations can choose to hide some locations (hiding), report some locations more than once (replication) and lie about their locations…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Xiang Yan , Yiling Chen

This paper is devoted to the two-opposite-facility location games with a penalty whose amount depends on the distance between the two facilities to be opened by an authority. The two facilities are "opposite" in that one is popular and the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Xujin Chen , Xiaodong Hu , Xiaohua Jia , Minming Li , Zhongzheng Tang , Chenhao Wang

We consider the facility location problem in a metric space, focusing on the case of three agents. We show that selecting the reported location of each agent with probability proportional to the distance between the other two agents results…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Reshef Meir

We study the distributed facility location problem, where a set of agents with positions on the line of real numbers are partitioned into disjoint districts, and the goal is to choose a point to satisfy certain criteria, such as optimize an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Alexandros A. Voudouris , Rongsen Zhang

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 consider a truthful facility location problem with agents that have private positions on the line of real numbers and known optional preferences over two obnoxious facilities that must be placed at locations chosen from a given set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We study the facility location problems where agents are located on a real line and divided into groups based on criteria such as ethnicity or age. Our aim is to design mechanisms to locate a facility to approximately minimize the costs of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Houyu Zhou , Minming Li , Hau Chan

In the strategic facility location problem, a set of agents report their locations in a metric space and the goal is to use these reports to open a new facility, minimizing an aggregate distance measure from the agents to the facility.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Eric Balkanski , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Golnoosh Shahkarami

Our work is devoted to the metric facility location problem and addresses the selfish behavior of the players. It contributes to the line of work initiated by Procaccia and Tennenholtz [EC09] on approximate mechanism design without money.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-10 Nick Gravin , Dominik Scheder