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Strategy-Proof Cost-Sharing Mechanism Design for a Generalized Cover-Sets Problem (Extended Abstract)

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In this work, we extend the set cover game, which is called as “generalized cover-sets game”. We propose several approximate cost allocation methods for three different game settings.

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Acknowledgements

The research of the first author is supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61772005) and Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (No. 2017J01753). The second author is supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11971349). The last author is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11871280 and No. 11471003) and Qing Lan Project.

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  1. College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350116, People’s Republic of China

    Longkun Guo

  2. College of Science, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, People’s Republic of China

    Chenchen Wu

  3. School of Mathematical Science, Institute of Mathematics, Nanjing Normal University, Jiangsu, 210023, China

    Huahui Yu & Xiaoyan Zhang

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  1. University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

    Andrea Tagarelli

  2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Hanghang Tong

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Guo, L., Wu, C., Yu, H., Zhang, X. (2019). Strategy-Proof Cost-Sharing Mechanism Design for a Generalized Cover-Sets Problem (Extended Abstract). In: Tagarelli, A., Tong, H. (eds) Computational Data and Social Networks. CSoNet 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11917. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34980-6_10

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