A Structural Approach to Activity Selection

A Structural Approach to Activity Selection

Eduard Eiben, Robert Ganian, Sebastian Ordyniak

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 203-209. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/28

The general task of finding an assignment of agents to activities under certain stability and rationality constraints has led to the introduction of two prominent problems in the area of computational social choice: Group Activity Selection (GASP) and Stable Invitations (SIP). Here we introduce and study the Comprehensive Activity Selection Problem, which naturally generalizes both of these problems. In particular, we apply the parameterized complexity paradigm, which has already been successfully employed for SIP and GASP. While previous work has focused strongly on parameters such as solution size or number of activities, here we focus on parameters which capture the complexity of agent-to-agent interactions. Our results include a comprehensive complexity map for CAS under various restrictions on the number of activities in combination with restrictions on the complexity of agent interactions.
Keywords:
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Coordination and Cooperation
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Computational Social Choice