Group activity selection problem

  • A. Darmann
  • , E. Elkind
  • , S. Kurz
  • , J. Lang
  • , J. Schauer
  • , G.J. Woeginger

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Abstract

We consider a setting where one has to organize one or several group activities for a set of agents. Each agent will participate in at most one activity, and her preferences over activities depend on the number of participants in the activity. The goal is to assign agents to activities based on their preferences. We put forward a general model for this setting, which is a natural generalization of anonymous hedonic games. We then focus on a special case of our model, where agents’ preferences are binary, i.e., each agent classifies all pairs of the form "(activity, group size)" into ones that are acceptable and ones that are not. We formulate several solution concepts for this scenario, and study them from the computational point of view, providing hardness results for the general case as well as efficient algorithms for settings where agents’ preferences satisfy certain natural constraints.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternet and Network Economics (8th International Workshop, WINE 2012, Liverpool, UK, December 10-12, 2012. Proceedings)
EditorsP.W. Goldberg
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer
Pages156-169
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-35310-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Eventconference; 8th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics; 2012-12-10; 2012-12-12 -
Duration: 10 Dec 201212 Dec 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume7695
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

Conference

Conferenceconference; 8th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics; 2012-12-10; 2012-12-12
Period10/12/1212/12/12
Other8th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics

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