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We consider a single-facility location problem, where agents are positioned on the real line and are partitioned into multiple disjoint districts. The goal is to choose a location (where a public facility is to be built) so as to minimize…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Alexandros A. Voudouris

In this paper, we study of the $m$-Capacitated Facility Location Problem ($m$-CFLP) on the line from a Bayesian Mechanism Design perspective and propose a novel class of mechanisms: the \textit{Extended Ranking Mechanisms} (ERMs). We first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Gennaro Auricchio , Jie Zhang , Mengxiao Zhang

Designing strategyproof mechanisms for multi-facility location that optimize social costs based on agent preferences had been challenging due to the extensive domain knowledge required and poor worst-case guarantees. Recently, deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Nguyen Thach , Fei Liu , Houyu Zhou , Hau Chan

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

Online strategic classification studies settings in which agents strategically modify their features to obtain favorable predictions. For example, given a classifier that determines loan approval based on credit scores, applicants may open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Chase Hutton , Adam Melrod , Han Shao

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 determine the quality of randomized social choice mechanisms in a setting in which the agents have metric preferences: every agent has a cost for each alternative, and these costs form a metric. We assume that these costs are unknown to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Elliot Anshelevich , John Postl

We consider a problem where agents have private positions on a line, and public approval preferences over two facilities, and their cost is the maximum distance from their approved facilities. The goal is to decide the facility locations to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mohammad Lotfi , Alexandros A. Voudouris

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

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 the assignment problem, where $n$ agents have to be matched to $n$ items. Each agent has a preference order over the items. In the serial dictatorship (SD) mechanism the agents act in a particular order and pick their most…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ioannis Caragiannis , Sebastian Homrighausen

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

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

Many problems in computational science and engineering become one-to-many after coarse graining, partial observation, or inverse reconstruction: a resolved state may not determine a unique subgrid forcing, a structural descriptor may not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-28 Junfeng Chen

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

Consider the following social choice problem. Suppose we have a set of $n$ voters and $m$ candidates that lie in a metric space. The goal is to design a mechanism to choose a candidate whose average distance to the voters is as small as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Moses Charikar , Prasanna Ramakrishnan

In the one-dimensional facility assignment problem, m facilities and n agents are positioned along the real line. Each agent will be assigned to a single facility to receive service. Each facility incurs a building cost, which is shared…

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

The economic warehouse lot scheduling problem is a foundational inventory-theory model, capturing computational challenges in dynamically coordinating replenishment decisions for multiple commodities subject to a shared capacity constraint.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Danny Segev

We consider a social choice setting in which agents and alternatives are represented by points in a metric space, and the cost of an agent for an alternative is the distance between the corresponding points in the space. The goal is to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Elliot Anshelevich , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Christopher Jerrett , Alexandros A. Voudouris

The facility location problem is an NP-hard optimization problem. Therefore, approximation algorithms are often used to solve large instances. Such algorithms often perform much better than worst-case analysis suggests. Therefore,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Stefan Klootwijk , Bodo Manthey