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PODC
2003
ACM
14 years 18 days ago
On a network creation game
We introduce a novel game that models the creation of Internet-like networks by selfish node-agents without central design or coordination. Nodes pay for the links that they esta...
Alex Fabrikant, Ankur Luthra, Elitza N. Maneva, Ch...
ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
14 years 4 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
STACS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The Price of Anarchy in Cooperative Network Creation Games
We analyze the structure of equilibria and the price of anarchy in the family of network creation games considered extensively in the past few years, which attempt to unify the net...
Erik D. Demaine, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Hamid M...
STOC
2002
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
The price of anarchy is independent of the network topology
We study the degradation in network performance caused by the selfish behavior of noncooperative network users. We consider a model of selfish routing in which the latency experie...
Tim Roughgarden
ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
14 years 4 months ago
A New Look at Selfish Routing
: We revisit price of anarchy in network routing, in a new model in which routing decisions are made by self-interested components of the network, as opposed to by the flows as in ...
Christos Papadimitriou, Gregory Valiant