The Voronoi game on graphs and its complexity

Sachio Teramoto, Erik D. Demaine, Ryuhei Uehara

Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications · 2011 · 25 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

The Voronoi game is a two-person game which is a model for a competitive facility location.The game is done on a continuous domain, and only two special cases (1-dimensional case and 1-round case) are well investigated.We introduce the discrete Voronoi game of which the game arena is given as a graph.We first show the best strategy when the game arena is a large complete k-ary tree.Next we show that the discrete Voronoi game is intractable in general.Even in 1-round case, and the place occupied by the first player is fixed, the game is NP-complete in general.We also show that the game is PSPACE-complete in general case.

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