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We study a truthful two-facility location problem in which a set of agents have private positions on the line of real numbers and known approval preferences over two different facilities. Given the locations of the two facilities, the cost…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Alexandros A. Voudouris , Rongsen Zhang

The facility location game has been studied extensively in mechanism design. In the classical model, each agent's cost is solely determined by her distance to the nearest facility. In this paper, we introduce a novel model where each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mengfan Ma , Mingyu Xiao , Tian Bai , Bakh Khoussainov

An important feature of many real world facility location problems are capacity limits on the facilities. We show here how capacity constraints make it harder to design strategy proof mechanisms for facility location, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Toby Walsh

We study the mechanism design problem of facility location on a metric space in the learning-augmented framework, where mechanisms have access to imperfect predictions of the optimal facility locations. Our objective is to design…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hau Chan , Jianan Lin , Chenhao Wang

We study mechanism design with predictions for the obnoxious facility location problem. We present deterministic strategyproof mechanisms that display tradeoffs between robustness and consistency on segments, squares, circles and trees. All…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Gabriel Istrate , Cosmin Bonchis

We consider the obnoxious facility location problem (in which agents prefer the facility location to be far from them) and propose a hierarchy of distance-based proportional fairness concepts for the problem. These fairness axioms ensure…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Alexander Lam , Haris Aziz , Bo Li , Fahimeh Ramezani , Toby Walsh

The strategic selection of resources by selfish agents has long been a key area of research, with Resource Selection Games and Congestion Games serving as prominent examples. In these traditional frameworks, agents choose from a set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Henri Zeiler

Facility location is fundamental in operations research, mechanism design, and algorithmic game theory, with applications ranging from urban infrastructure planning to distributed systems. Recent research in this area has focused on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yangguang Shi , Zhenyu Xue

We study the problem of locating a single obnoxious facility on the normalized line segment $[0,1]$ with strategic agents from a mechanism design perspective. Each agent has a preference for the undesirable location of the facility and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Hau Chan , Jianan Lin , Chenhao Wang

In this work we introduce an alternative model for the design and analysis of strategyproof mechanisms that is motivated by the recent surge of work in "learning-augmented algorithms". Aiming to complement the traditional approach in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Priyank Agrawal , Eric Balkanski , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Tingting Ou , Xizhi Tan

Additively separable hedonic games and fractional hedonic games have received considerable attention. They are coalition forming games of selfish agents based on their mutual preferences. Most of the work in the literature characterizes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Michele Flammini , Gianpiero Monaco , Qiang Zhang

The strategic selection of resources by selfish agents is a classic research direction, with Resource Selection Games and Congestion Games as prominent examples. In these games, agents select available resources and their utility then…

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

We address the problem of locating facilities on the $[0,1]$ interval based on reports from strategic agents. The cost of each agent is her distance to the closest facility, and the global objective is to minimize either the maximum cost of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Iddan Golomb , Christos Tzamos

We study the problem of locating a single facility on a real line based on the reports of self-interested agents, when agents have double-peaked preferences, with the peaks being on opposite sides of their locations. We observe that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-20 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Minming Li , Jie Zhang , Qiang Zhang

We consider the strategyproof facility location problem on a circle. We focus on the case of 5 agents, and find a tight bound for the PCD strategyproof mechanism, which selects the reported location of an agent in proportion to the length…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ido Farjoun , Reshef Meir

We consider a single-facility location problem, where agents are positioned on the real line and are partitioned into multiple disjoint districts. The goal is to choose a location (where a public facility is to be built) so as to minimize…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We consider the problem of locating a public facility on a line, where a set of $n$ strategic agents report their \emph{locations} and a mechanism determines, either deterministically or randomly, the location of the facility. Game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Michal Feldman , Yoav Wilf

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

We consider a multi-stage facility reallocation problems on the real line, where a facility is being moved between time stages based on the locations reported by $n$ agents. The aim of the reallocation algorithm is to minimise the social…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Bart de Keijzer , Dominik Wojtczak

We consider the problem of locating a single facility on the real line. This facility serves a set of agents, each of whom is located on the line, and incurs a cost equal to his distance from the facility. An agent's location is private…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-17 Itai Feigenbaum , Jay Sethuraman , Chun Ye