Local and global price of anarchy of graphical games

This paper initiates a study of connections between local and global properties of graphical games. Specifically, we introduce a concept of local price of anarchy that quantifies how well subsets of agents respond to their environments. We then show several methods of bounding the global price of anarchy of a game in terms of the local price of anarchy. All our bounds are essentially tight.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: TCS
• Authors: Oren Ben-Zwi, Amir Ronen
• Keywords: Anarchy, Global Properties, Local Price, TCS 2011, Theoretical Computer Science