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MFCS
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Price of Anarchy for Polynomial Social Cost
Abstract. In this work, we consider an interesting variant of the wellstudied KP model [18] for selfish routing that reflects some influence from the much older Wardrop model [3...
Martin Gairing, Thomas Lücking, Marios Mavron...
WINE
2005
Springer
146views Economy» more  WINE 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
A Cost Mechanism for Fair Pricing of Resource Usage
We propose a simple and intuitive cost mechanism which assigns costs for the competitive usage of m resources by n selfish agents. Each agent has an individual demand; demands are...
Marios Mavronicolas, Panagiota N. Panagopoulou, Pa...
STOC
2009
ACM
145views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 10 months ago
Intrinsic robustness of the price of anarchy
The price of anarchy (POA) is a worst-case measure of the inefficiency of selfish behavior, defined as the ratio of the objective function value of a worst Nash equilibrium of a g...
Tim Roughgarden
WINE
2009
Springer
138views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
On Strong Equilibria in the Max Cut Game
This paper deals with two games defined upon well known generalizations of max cut. We study the existence of a strong equilibrium which is a refinement of the Nash equilibrium. ...
Laurent Gourvès, Jérôme Monnot