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SAGT
2009
Springer
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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
SODA
2008
ACM
185views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
14 years 8 days ago
Better bounds for online load balancing on unrelated machines
We study the problem of scheduling permanent jobs on unrelated machines when the objective is to minimize the Lp norm of the machine loads. The problem is known as load balancing ...
Ioannis Caragiannis
ICALP
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Convergence Time to Nash Equilibria
We study the number of steps required to reach a pure Nash Equilibrium in a load balancing scenario where each job behaves selfishly and attempts to migrate to a machine which will...
Eyal Even-Dar, Alexander Kesselman, Yishay Mansour
SODA
2007
ACM
115views Algorithms» more  SODA 2007»
14 years 8 days ago
Strong price of anarchy
A strong equilibrium (Aumann 1959) is a pure Nash equilibrium which is resilient to deviations by coalitions. We define the strong price of anarchy to be the ratio of the worst c...
Nir Andelman, Michal Feldman, Yishay Mansour