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Mechanism Design for Facility Location Problems: A Survey

  • Hau Chan
  • , Aris Filos-Ratsikas
  • , Bo Li
  • , Minming Li
  • , Chenhao Wang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • University of Liverpool
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • City University of Hong Kong

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Abstract

The study of approximate mechanism design for facility location problems has been in the center of research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and economics for the last decades, largely due to its practical importance in various domains, such as social planning and clustering. At a high level, the goal is to design mechanisms to select a set of locations on which to build a set of facilities, aiming to optimize some social objective and ensure desirable properties based on the preferences of strategic agents, who might have incentives to misreport their private information such as their locations. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the significant progress that has been made since the introduction of the problem, highlighting the different variants and methodologies, as well as the most interesting directions for future research.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021
EditorsZhi-Hua Zhou
PublisherInternational Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
Pages4356-4365
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9780999241196
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Canada
Duration: 19 Aug 202127 Aug 2021

Publication series

NameIJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
ISSN (Print)1045-0823

Conference

Conference30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVirtual, Online
Period19/08/2127/08/21

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