Cross-monotonic cost-sharing methods for connected facility location games

  • Authors:
  • Stefano Leonardi;Guido Schaefer

  • Affiliations:
  • Universita di Roma Via Salaria 113, Roma, Italy;Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85, Saarbruecken

  • Venue:
  • EC '04 Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We devise cost sharing methods for connected facility location games that are cross-monotonic, competitive and recover a constant fraction of the optimal cost.The novelty of this work is that we use randomized algorithms and that we share the expected cost among the participating users. We also provide a primal-dual cost sharing method for the connected facility location game with opening costs.