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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

Algorithms with predictions have attracted much attention in the last years across various domains, including variants of facility location, as a way to surpass traditional worst-case analyses. We study the $k$-facility location mechanism…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Zohar Barak , Anupam Gupta , Inbal Talgam-Cohen

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 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

Strategy-proof mechanisms are widely used in market design. In an abstract allocation framework where outside options are available to agents, we obtain two results for strategy-proof mechanisms. They provide a unified foundation for…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-01-05 Jun Zhang

We study the facility location mechanism design problem where $n$ agents report their locations in Euclidean space, and the output is a single facility location. The cost function of each agent is the distance from the returned facility,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zohar Barak

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 initiate the study of the heterogeneous facility location problem with limited resources. We mainly focus on the fundamental case where a set of agents are positioned in the line segment [0,1] and have approval preferences over two…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Argyrios Deligkas , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Alexandros A. Voudouris

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

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 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

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

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 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 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

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

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

Our work is devoted to the metric facility location problem and addresses the selfish behavior of the players. It contributes to the line of work initiated by Procaccia and Tennenholtz [EC09] on approximate mechanism design without money.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-10 Nick Gravin , Dominik Scheder

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

In the strategic facility location problem, a set of agents report their locations in a metric space and the goal is to use these reports to open a new facility, minimizing an aggregate distance measure from the agents to the facility.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Eric Balkanski , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Golnoosh Shahkarami