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We consider a truthful facility location problem in which there is a set of agents with private locations on the line of real numbers, and the goal is to place a number of facilities at different locations chosen from the set of those…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Argyrios Deligkas , Mohammad Lotfi , Alexandros A. Voudouris

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

In the paper a model problem for the location of a given number $N$ of points in a given region $\Omega$ and with a given resources density $\rho(x)$ is considered. The main difference between the usual location problems and the present one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Serena Guarino Lo Bianco , Fabrizio Oliviero

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 present a randomized distributed approximation algorithm for the metric uncapacitated facility location problem. The algorithm is executed on a bipartite graph in the Congest model yielding a (1.861 + epsilon) approximation factor, where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-09 Patrick Briest , Bastian Degener , Barbara Kempkes , Peter Kling , Peter Pietrzyk

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 study the distributed facility location problem, where a set of agents with positions on the line of real numbers are partitioned into disjoint districts, and the goal is to choose a point to satisfy certain criteria, such as optimize an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Alexandros A. Voudouris , Rongsen Zhang

We study a truthful two-facility location problem in which a set of agents have private positions on the line of real numbers and known approval preferences over two different facilities. Given the locations of the two facilities, the cost…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Alexandros A. Voudouris , Rongsen Zhang

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

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 the problem of locating a single obnoxious facility on the normalized line segment $[0,1]$ with strategic agents from a mechanism design perspective. Each agent has a preference for the undesirable location of the facility and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Hau Chan , Jianan Lin , Chenhao Wang

Recent years have witnessed the rise of many successful e-commerce marketplace platforms like the Amazon marketplace, AirBnB, Uber/Lyft, and Upwork, where a central platform mediates economic transactions between buyers and sellers.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Reza Alijani , Siddhartha Banerjee , Sreenivas Gollapudi , Kostas Kollias , Kamesh Munagala

We consider the {\em mobile facility location} (\mfl) problem. We are given a set of facilities and clients located in a common metric space. The goal is to move each facility from its initial location to a destination and assign each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Sara Ahmadian , Zachary Friggstad , Chaitanya Swamy

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 study Facility Location with Matching, a Facility Location problem where, given additional information about which pair of clients is compatible to be matched, we need to match as many clients as possible and assign each matched client…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Fateme Abbasi , Martin Böhm , Jarosław Byrka , Matin Mohammadi , Yongho Shin

The Capacitated Location Routing Problem is an important planning and routing problem in logistics, which generalizes the capacitated vehicle routing problem and the uncapacitated facility location problem. In this problem, we are given a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jingyang Zhao , Mingyu Xiao , Shunwang Wang

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

The Fault-Tolerant Facility Placement problem (FTFP) is a generalization of the classic Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem (UFL). In FTFP we are given a set of facility sites and a set of clients. Opening a facility at site $i$ costs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Li Yan , Marek Chrobak

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 classic Facility Location problem on planar graphs (non-uniform, uncapacitated). Given an edge-weighted planar graph $G$, a set of clients $C\subseteq V(G)$, a set of facilities $F\subseteq V(G)$, and opening costs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk