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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

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 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

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 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

In Facility Location problems there are agents that should be connected to facilities and locations where facilities may be opened so that agents can connect to them. We depart from Uncapacitated Facility Location and by assuming that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Thanasis Lianeas , Marios Mertzanidis , Aikaterini Nikolidaki

We study a truthful facility location problem where one out of $k\geq2$ available facilities must be built at a location chosen from a set of candidate ones in the interval $[0,1]$. This decision aims to accommodate a set of agents with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-07 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

Facility location games have been a topic of major interest in economics, operations research and computer science, starting from the seminal work by Hotelling. Spatial facility location models have successfully predicted the outcome of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Omer Ben-Porat , Moshe Tennenholtz

We revisit the discrete heterogeneous two-facility location problem, in which there is a set of agents that occupy nodes of a line graph, and have private approval preferences over two facilities. When the facilities are located at some…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Alexandros A. Voudouris , Rongsen Zhang

We consider $k$-Facility Location games, where $n$ strategic agents report their locations on the real line, and a mechanism maps them to $k\ge 2$ facilities. Each agent seeks to minimize her distance to the nearest facility. We are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Dimitris Fotakis , Panagiotis Patsilinakos

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

In this paper, we study the two-facility location game on a line with optional preference where the acceptable set of facilities for each agent could be different and an agent's cost is his distance to the closest facility within his…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Minming Li , Pinyan Lu , Yuhao Yao , Jialin Zhang

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

Facility location is a prominent optimization problem that has inspired a large quantity of both theoretical and practical studies in combinatorial optimization. Although the problem has been investigated under various settings reflecting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Kangsan Kim , Yongho Shin , Hyung-Chan An

We study the distributed facility location games with candidate locations, where agents on a line are partitioned into groups. Both desirable and obnoxious facility location settings are discussed. In distributed location problems,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Feiyue Sun

In this paper, we propose a constrained heterogeneous facility location model where a set of alternative locations are feasible for building facilities and the number of facilities built at each location is limited. Supposing that a set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Qi Zhao , Wenjing Liu , Qizhi Fang , Qingqin Nong

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 a strategic variant of the facility location problem. We would like to locate a facility on a closed interval. There are n agents located on that interval, divided into two types: type 1 agents, who wish for the facility to be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-20 Itai Feigenbaum , Jay Sethuraman

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