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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

The facility location game has been studied extensively in mechanism design. In the classical model, each agent's cost is solely determined by her distance to the nearest facility. In this paper, we introduce a novel model where each…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Man-made and natural disruptions such as planned constructions on roads, suspensions of bridges, and blocked roads by trees/mudslides/floods can often create obstacles that separate two connected regions. As a result, the traveling and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hau Chan , Jianan Lin , Zining Qin , Chenhao Wang

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

This paper is devoted to the two-opposite-facility location games with a penalty whose amount depends on the distance between the two facilities to be opened by an authority. The two facilities are "opposite" in that one is popular and the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Xujin Chen , Xiaodong Hu , Xiaohua Jia , Minming Li , Zhongzheng Tang , Chenhao Wang

Facility location is fundamental in operations research, mechanism design, and algorithmic game theory, with applications ranging from urban infrastructure planning to distributed systems. Recent research in this area has focused on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yangguang Shi , Zhenyu Xue

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 take the classic facility location problem and consider a variation, in which each agent's individual cost function is equal to their distance from the facility multiplied by a scaling factor which is determined by the facility…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yu He , Alexander Lam , Minming Li

We characterize the class of group-strategyproof mechanisms for the single facility location game in any unconstrained strictly convex space. A mechanism is \emph{group-strategyproof}, if no group of agents can misreport so that all its…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Pingzhong Tang , Dingli Yu , Shengyu Zhao

Dynamic facility location problems predominantly suppose a monopoly over the service or product provided. Nonetheless, this premise can be a severe oversimplification in the presence of market competitors, as customers may prefer facilities…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Warley Almeida Silva , Margarida Carvalho , Sanjay Dominik Jena

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

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 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 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