The Obnoxious Facility Location Game with Dichotomous Preferences
Fu Li,
C. Gregory Plaxton,
Vaibhav B. Sinha
Abstract:We consider a facility location game in which n agents reside at known locations on a path, and k heterogeneous facilities are to be constructed on the path. Each agent is adversely affected by some subset of the facilities, and is unaffected by the others. We design two classes of mechanisms for choosing the facility locations given the reported agent preferences: utilitarian mechanisms that strive to maximize social welfare (i.e., to be efficient), and egalitarian mechanisms that strive to maximize the minim… Show more
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