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2010
Tsinghua U.
14 years 8 months ago
Circumventing the Price of Anarchy: Leading Dynamics to Good Behavior
: Many natural games can have a dramatic difference between the quality of their best and worst Nash equilibria, even in pure strategies. Yet, nearly all work to date on dynamics s...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Yishay Mansour
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
249views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2011»
13 years 1 months ago
Leading dynamics to good behavior
: Many natural games can have a dramatic difference between the quality of their best and worst Nash equilibria, even in pure strategies. Yet, nearly all work to date on dynamics s...
Maria-Florina Balcan
SAGT
2009
Springer
136views Game Theory» more  SAGT 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Non-clairvoyant Scheduling Games
In a scheduling game, each player owns a job and chooses a machine to execute it. While the social cost is the maximal load over all machines (makespan), the cost (disutility) of ...
Christoph Dürr, Nguyen Kim Thang
STOC
2012
ACM
256views Algorithms» more  STOC 2012»
12 years 1 months ago
Competitive contagion in networks
We develop a game-theoretic framework for the study of competition between firms who have budgets to “seed” the initial adoption of their products by consumers located in a s...
Sanjeev Goyal, Michael Kearns
COCOON
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
On the Performances of Nash Equilibria in Isolation Games
: Network games play a fundamental role in understanding behavior in many domains, ranging from communication networks through markets to social networks. Such networks are used, a...
Vittorio Bilò, Michele Flammini, Gianpiero ...