The Complexity of Manipulation of k-Coalitional Games on Graphs

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Hauptverfasser: Barr, Hodaya, Trabelsi, Yohai, Kraus, Sarit, Roditty, Liam, Hazon, Noam
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author Barr, Hodaya
Trabelsi, Yohai
Kraus, Sarit
Roditty, Liam
Hazon, Noam
author_facet Barr, Hodaya
Trabelsi, Yohai
Kraus, Sarit
Roditty, Liam
Hazon, Noam
contents In many settings, there is an organizer who would like to divide a set of agents into $k$ coalitions, and cares about the friendships within each coalition. Specifically, the organizer might want to maximize utilitarian social welfare, maximize egalitarian social welfare, or simply guarantee that every agent will have at least one friend within his coalition. However, in many situations, the organizer is not familiar with the friendship connections, and he needs to obtain them from the agents. In this setting, a manipulative agent may falsely report friendship connections in order to increase his utility. In this paper, we analyze the complexity of finding manipulation in such $k$-coalitional games on graphs. We also introduce a new type of manipulation, socially-aware manipulation, in which the manipulator would like to increase his utility without decreasing the social welfare. We then study the complexity of finding socially-aware manipulation in our setting. Finally, we examine the frequency of socially-aware manipulation and the running time of our algorithms via simulation results.
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spellingShingle The Complexity of Manipulation of k-Coalitional Games on Graphs
Barr, Hodaya
Trabelsi, Yohai
Kraus, Sarit
Roditty, Liam
Hazon, Noam
Computer Science and Game Theory
Artificial Intelligence
In many settings, there is an organizer who would like to divide a set of agents into $k$ coalitions, and cares about the friendships within each coalition. Specifically, the organizer might want to maximize utilitarian social welfare, maximize egalitarian social welfare, or simply guarantee that every agent will have at least one friend within his coalition. However, in many situations, the organizer is not familiar with the friendship connections, and he needs to obtain them from the agents. In this setting, a manipulative agent may falsely report friendship connections in order to increase his utility. In this paper, we analyze the complexity of finding manipulation in such $k$-coalitional games on graphs. We also introduce a new type of manipulation, socially-aware manipulation, in which the manipulator would like to increase his utility without decreasing the social welfare. We then study the complexity of finding socially-aware manipulation in our setting. Finally, we examine the frequency of socially-aware manipulation and the running time of our algorithms via simulation results.
title The Complexity of Manipulation of k-Coalitional Games on Graphs
topic Computer Science and Game Theory
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07368