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We study the impact on mechanisms for facility location of moving from one dimension to two (or more) dimensions and Euclidean or Manhattan distances. We consider three fundamental axiomatic properties: anonymity which is a basic fairness…

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

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

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 resource allocation problems in which a central planner allocates resources among strategic agents with private cost functions in order to minimize a social cost, defined as an aggregate of the agents' costs. This setting poses two…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Leo Landolt , Anna Maddux , Andreas Schlaginhaufen , Saurabh Vaishampayan , Maryam Kamgarpour

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 the problem of locating a facility to serve a set of agents located along a line. The Nash welfare objective function, defined as the product of the agents' utilities, is known to provide a compromise between fairness and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Alexander Lam , Haris Aziz , Toby Walsh

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

This paper investigates mechanism design for congested facility location problems, where agents are partitioned into groups with conflicting interests (e.g., competition for booking a basketball court in a gymnasium), and each agent's cost…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Cheng Peng , Houyu Zhou

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 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

We consider competitive facility location as a two-stage multi-agent system with two types of clients. For a given host graph with weighted clients on the vertices, first facility agents strategically select vertices for opening their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Simon Krogmann , Pascal Lenzner , Alexander Skopalik , Marc Uetz , Marnix C. Vos

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

The differentially private (DP) facility location problem seeks to determine a socially optimal placement for a public facility while ensuring that each participating agent's location remains private. To privatize its input data, a DP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Sara Fish , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , Jason Z. Tang , Salil Vadhan

This paper considers the scenario in which there are multiple institutions, each with a limited capacity for candidates, and candidates, each with preferences over the institutions. A central entity evaluates the utility of each candidate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-10 L. Elisa Celis , Amit Kumar , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi , Andrew Xu

In this paper, we study of the $m$-Capacitated Facility Location Problem ($m$-CFLP) on the line from a Bayesian Mechanism Design perspective and propose a novel class of mechanisms: the \textit{Extended Ranking Mechanisms} (ERMs). We first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Gennaro Auricchio , Jie Zhang , Mengxiao Zhang

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

The recent large scale availability of mobility data, which captures individual mobility patterns, poses novel operational problems that are exciting and challenging. Motivated by this, we introduce and study a variant of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ozan Candogan , Yiding Feng

We consider a two-sided matching problem in which the agents on one side have dichotomous preferences and the other side representing institutions has strict preferences (priorities). It captures several important applications in matching…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Haris Aziz , Md. Shahidul Islam , Szilvia Pápai

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

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