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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

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

Metaheuristics are known to be strong in solving large-scale instances of computationally hard problems. However, their efficiency still needs exploration in the context of instance structure, scale and numerical properties for many of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-01-11 David Chalupa , Peter Nielsen

In this paper, we investigate the $k$-Facility Location Problem ($k$-FLP) within the Bayesian Mechanism Design framework, in which agents' preferences are samples of a probability distributed on a line. Our primary contribution is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Gennaro Auricchio , Jie Zhang

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 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 variant of the competitive facility location problem, in which a company is to locate new facilities in a market where competitor's facilities already exist. We consider the scenario where only a limited number of possible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Yun Hui Lin , Qingyun Tian

In this paper, we introduce a new variant of the $p$-median facility location problem in which it is assumed that the exact location of the potential facilities is unknown. Instead, each of the facilities must be located in a region around…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Víctor Blanco

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

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 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

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

An important challenge in robust machine learning is when training data is provided by strategic sources who may intentionally report erroneous data for their own benefit. A line of work at the intersection of machine learning and mechanism…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Eric Balkanski , Cherlin Zhu

We provide nearly optimal algorithms for online facility location (OFL) with predictions. In OFL, $n$ demand points arrive in order and the algorithm must irrevocably assign each demand point to an open facility upon its arrival. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Erzhi Liu , You Lyu , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Yubo Zhang

We study the capacitated $k$-facility location problem, in which we are given a set of clients with demands, a set of facilities with capacities and a constant number $k$. It costs $f_i$ to open facility $i$, and $c_{ij}$ for facility $i$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Karen Aardal , Pieter van den Berg , Dion Gijswijt , Shanfei Li

As large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems scale to handle increasingly complex tasks, balancing structural stability and dynamic adaptability becomes increasingly challenging. Existing systems typically adopt either…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Haoran Li , Shulun Chen , Shaoyuan Sun , Hanchen Wang

In this paper, we study the Facility Location Problem with Scarce Resources (FLPSR) under the assumption that agents' type follow a probability distribution. In the FLPSR, the objective is to identify the optimal locations for one or more…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Gennaro Auricchio , Jie Zhang

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

In this paper, we study mechanism design for single-facility location games where each agent has multiple private locations in [0, 1]. The individual objective is a satisfaction function that measures the discrepancy between the optimal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Huanjun Wang , Qizhi Fang , Wenjing Liu

We consider Online Facility Location in the framework of learning-augmented online algorithms. In Online Facility Location (OFL), demands arrive one-by-one in a metric space and must be (irrevocably) assigned to an open facility upon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Dimitris Fotakis , Evangelia Gergatsouli , Themis Gouleakis , Nikolas Patris , Thanos Tolias