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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2019.48
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-111693
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2019/11169/
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Ganian, Robert ; Ordyniak, Sebastian ; Rahul, C. S.

Group Activity Selection with Few Agent Types

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Abstract

The Group Activity Selection Problem (GASP) models situations where a group of agents needs to be distributed to a set of activities while taking into account preferences of the agents w.r.t. individual activities and activity sizes. The problem, along with its well-known variants sGASP and gGASP, has previously been studied in the parameterized complexity setting with various parameterizations, such as number of agents, number of activities and solution size. However, the complexity of the problem parameterized by the number of types of agents, a natural parameter proposed already in the first paper that introduced GASP, has so far remained unexplored.
In this paper we establish the complexity map for GASP, sGASP and gGASP when the number of types of agents is the parameter. Our positive results, consisting of one fixed-parameter algorithm and one XP algorithm, rely on a combination of novel Subset Sum machinery (which may be of general interest) and identifying certain compression steps which allow us to focus on solutions which are "acyclic". These algorithms are complemented by matching lower bounds, which among others close a gap to a recently obtained tractability result of Gupta, Roy, Saurabh and Zehavi (2017). In this direction, the techniques used to establish W[1]-hardness of sGASP are of particular interest: as an intermediate step, we use Sidon sequences to show the W[1]-hardness of a highly restricted variant of multi-dimensional Subset Sum, which may find applications in other settings as well.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{ganian_et_al:LIPIcs:2019:11169,
  author =	{Robert Ganian and Sebastian Ordyniak and C. S. Rahul},
  title =	{{Group Activity Selection with Few Agent Types}},
  booktitle =	{27th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2019)},
  pages =	{48:1--48:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-124-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{144},
  editor =	{Michael A. Bender and Ola Svensson and Grzegorz Herman},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/11169},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-111693},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2019.48},
  annote =	{Keywords: group activity selection problem, parameterized complexity analysis, multi-agent systems}
}

Keywords: group activity selection problem, parameterized complexity analysis, multi-agent systems
Collection: 27th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2019)
Issue Date: 2019
Date of publication: 06.09.2019

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