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Facility Location Games with Ordinal Preferences

  • Hau Chan
  • , Minming Li
  • , Chenhao Wang*
  • , Yingchao Zhao
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We consider a new setting of facility location games with ordinal preferences. In such a setting, we have a set of agents and a set of facilities. Each agent is located on a line and has an ordinal preference over the facilities. Our goal is to design strategyproof mechanisms that elicit truthful information (preferences and/or locations) from the agents and locate the facilities to minimize both maximum and total cost objectives as well as to maximize both minimum and total utility objectives. For the four possible objectives, we consider the 2-facility settings in which only preferences are private, or locations are private. For each possible combination of the objectives and settings, we provide lower and upper bounds on the approximation ratios of strategyproof mechanisms, which are asymptotically tight up to a constant. Finally, we discuss the generalization of our results beyond two facilities and when the agents can misreport both locations and preferences.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputing and Combinatorics - 28th International Conference, COCOON 2022, Proceedings
EditorsYong Zhang, Dongjing Miao, Rolf Möhring
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages138-149
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783031221040
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event28th International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2022 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 22 Oct 202224 Oct 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13595 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference28th International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period22/10/2224/10/22

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