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MFCS
2004
Springer
14 years 1 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...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Price of Anarchy in Non-Cooperative Load Balancing
We investigate the price of anarchy of a load balancing game with K dispatchers. The service rates and holding costs are assumed to depend on the server, and the service disciplin...
Urtzi Ayesta, Olivier Brun, Balakrishna Prabhu
WINE
2010
Springer
189views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
The Limits of Smoothness: A Primal-Dual Framework for Price of Anarchy Bounds
Abstract. We show a formal duality between certain equilibrium concepts, including the correlated and coarse correlated equilibrium, and analysis frameworks for proving bounds on t...
Uri Nadav, Tim Roughgarden
STOC
2009
ACM
145views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 9 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
ORL
2007
84views more  ORL 2007»
13 years 8 months ago
The price of anarchy in an exponential multi-server
We consider a single multi-server memoryless service station. Servers have heterogeneous service rates. Arrivals are routed to one of the servers, and the routing decisions are no...
Moshe Haviv, Tim Roughgarden