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This paper studies the problem of minimizing group-level inequity in facility location games on the real line, where agents belong to different groups and may act strategically. We explore a fairness-oriented objective that minimizes the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuhang Guo , Houyu Zhou

In the one-dimensional facility assignment problem, m facilities and n agents are positioned along the real line. Each agent will be assigned to a single facility to receive service. Each facility incurs a building cost, which is shared…

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

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

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 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

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

The study of approximate mechanism design for facility location problems has been in the center of research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and economics for the last decades, largely due to its practical importance in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Hau Chan , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Bo Li , Minming Li , Chenhao Wang

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

In this paper, we investigate the Mechanism Design aspects of the $m$-Capacitated Facility Location Problem ($m$-CFLP) on a line. We focus on two frameworks. In the first framework, the number of facilities is arbitrary, all facilities have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Gennaro Auricchio , Zihe Wang , Jie Zhang

We study mechanisms for candidate selection that seek to minimize the social cost, where voters and candidates are associated with points in some underlying metric space. The social cost of a candidate is the sum of its distances to each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Michal Feldman , Amos Fiat , Iddan Golomb

We study a variation of facility location problems (FLPs) that aims to improve the accessibility of agents to the facility within the context of mechanism design without money. In such a variation, agents have preferences on the ideal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Hau Chan , Jianan Lin , Chenhao Wang , Yanxi Xie

We study the classic mechanism design problem of locating a public facility on a real line. In contrast to previous work, we assume that the agents are unable to fully specify where their preferred location lies, and instead only provide…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Vijay Menon , Kate Larson

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 consider the facility location problem in two dimensions. In particular, we consider a setting where agents have Euclidean preferences, defined by their ideal points, for a facility to be located in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We show that for the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Sumit Goel , Wade Hann-Caruthers

In this work we consider general facility location and social choice problems, in which sets of agents $\mathcal{A}$ and facilities $\mathcal{F}$ are located in a metric space, and our goal is to assign agents to facilities (as well as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Elliot Anshelevich , Wennan Zhu

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 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

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 consider the problem of locating a single facility for 2 agents in $L_p$ space ($1<p<\infty$) and give a nearly complete characterization of such deterministic strategyproof mechanisms. We use the distance between an agent and the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Jianan Lin