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On Reachable Assignments under Dichotomous Preferences

Computer Science and Game Theory 2022-09-22 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms Combinatorics

Abstract

We consider the problem of determining whether a target item assignment can be reached from an initial item assignment by a sequence of pairwise exchanges of items between agents. In particular, we consider the situation where each agent has a dichotomous preference over the items, that is, each agent evaluates each item as acceptable or unacceptable. Furthermore, we assume that communication between agents is limited, and the relationship is represented by an undirected graph. Then, a pair of agents can exchange their items only if they are connected by an edge and the involved items are acceptable. We prove that this problem is PSPACE-complete even when the communication graph is complete (that is, every pair of agents can exchange their items), and this problem can be solved in polynomial time if an input graph is a tree.

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@article{arxiv.2209.10262,
  title  = {On Reachable Assignments under Dichotomous Preferences},
  author = {Takehiro Ito and Naonori Kakimura and Naoyuki Kamiyama and Yusuke Kobayashi and Yuta Nozaki and Yoshio Okamoto and Kenta Ozeki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.10262},
  year   = {2022}
}

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