Strategyproof Facility Location for Three Agents

02/21/2019
by   Reshef Meir, et al.
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We consider the facility location problem in metric space, focusing on the case of three agents. We show that selecting the reported location of each agent with probability proportional to the distance between the other two agents results in a mechanism that is strategyproof in expectation, and dominates the random dictator mechanism in terms of utilitarian social welfare. We further improve the upper bound for three agents on a circle to 7/6 (whereas random dictator obtains 4/3); and provide the first lower bounds for randomized strategyproof facility location, using linear programming. Finally, we calculate the exact approximation ratio of the (deterministic and strategyproof) mechanism that selects the median on each axis in the plane.

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