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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

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 consider k-Facility Location games, where n strategic agents report their locations on the real line, and a mechanism maps them to k facilities. Each agent seeks to minimize his connection cost, given by a nonnegative increasing function…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Dimitris Fotakis , Christos Tzamos

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 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 focus on the problem of placing two facilities along a linear space to serve a group of agents. Each agent is committed to minimizing the distance between her location and the closest facility. A mechanism is an algorithm that maps the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Pinyan Lu , Zihan Luo , Jialin 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

In the recently introduced topological distance games, strategic agents need to be assigned to a subset of vertices of a topology. In the assignment, the utility of an agent depends on both the agent's inherent utilities for other agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Dušan Knop , Šimon Schierreich

We study mechanisms for the facility location problem augmented with predictions of the optimal facility location. We demonstrate that an egalitarian viewpoint which considers both the maximum distance of any agent from the facility and the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Toby Walsh

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

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 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

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 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 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

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

Recent work has constructed economic mechanisms that are both truthful and differentially private. In these mechanisms, privacy is treated separately from the truthfulness; it is not incorporated in players' utility functions (and doing so…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-14 Yiling Chen , Stephen Chong , Ian A. Kash , Tal Moran , Salil Vadhan

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 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

The facility location with strategic agents is a canonical problem in the literature on mechanism design without money. Recently, Agrawal et. al. considered this problem in the context of machine learning augmented algorithms, where the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Qingyun Chen , Nick Gravin , Sungjin Im